Intergalactic Summit

I'd say they keep it that way as a symbol of what the uncontrolled ambition of few can do: the harm, death and pain they can cause. It's a message to the whole cluster: when we're down, the empires go to war and millions die or are abducted. I believe that's how they probably see it.

But there's another lecture: a different path is possible. CONCORD isn't capable, in the end, to maintain peace. We have found we are once again alone in space, and neither the Jove nor CONCORD can try to control us. They have a power to recognize, certainly, but in the end they can't handle everything. That is what that station means.

Some may read it as a call for cooperation, I believe it is a sign of independence.

Pretty sure the station where that Nyx parked is still a little worse for wear.

Guess they have other things on their minds.

The Nyx crashsite looks a lot better than the CONCORD bureau...

( It is rather jarring to dock at that station and see a massive, intact Gallente interior by the way. )

That's why i offered the option to sell the HQ station to another organization, or rent it out in the same capacity.

Why would they? It's not like it's causing any issues right now. There's no rush, just like Keraimo said.

Pride ?

Mrs. Reiisha,

CONCORD has plenty of reasons to be proud. They managed to allow for a century of piece between several empires who are hostile towards eachother at the best of times. They made it possible that for more then a century there was the option to move forward instead of being stuck in the same vicious cycle of fighting. CONCORD made it possible for us capsuleers to evolve into what we are this day, and gives us room to keep evolving.

Though many would look down or ridicule CONCORD, facts are that we, the capsuleers as a whole, are creating so many advancements and directions and actions that previously were unthinkable or impossible. This has caused that most of CONCORD media time is dedicated to the response to avoid or prevent escalation into more dangerous situations.

I consider CONCORD to be a mother who has to keep her siblings in check while giving them the best possible future. It's a hard task, especially now that we capsuleers are an entirely different breed of child.

But i agree that for all the care that CONCORD has given us, it is time to return some of it. I to wish to help in restoring the home of CONCORD.

Mr. Hakanuro you have my thanks for sharing the view of CONCORD on the matter. Should you welcome it, i would be honored to be of service to you and CONCORD.

DutchGunner

The destruction of that station is the worst atrocity I have ever witnessed. It was a brutal and cowardly attack against civilization itself.

CONCORD lost more than a station that day. Amidst the wreckage, they should have recognized the opportunity for decisive action and seized it. They should have captured or killed the warlords leading the empires, abolished the partisan governments and lashed the cluster together in an iron peace.

All that CONCORD had achieved through a hundred years was threatened that day. Instead of risking it all on the chance to truly come into their own, they did the unthinkable and accepted war. An engineered civil war among Astropolites, fueled by the ethnic partisanship of planetsiders and the cynical interests of big industry. It is an artificial war, it is a meaningless war, and it is a war which invalidates every hope CONCORD used to embody.

One law. One empire. One humanity. That is the hope and the opportunity CONCORD lost that day.

I mourn for it still.

While I can understand that sentiment, the Yulai IX station was the very embodiment of that mandate. It stood exactly for what CONCORD is about. Each arm represented one of the Empires, joined together at the center. A station that did not only serve many functions for CONCORD but also was a diplomatic venue, a place to try to find a common ground, to find solutions to prevent all out war from erupting and engulfing the entire cluster in total chaos.

Right now it is a ruin, hardly worth being called a station. And nothing has been done with it at all. Yes, it failed, and the symbolic nature of its destroyed state is oddly fitting with the Jove Directorate arm, the only one having a semblance of being intact, it being the only Empire currently not at war with another. But before it failed it had many successes.

Your priority is to do your job. The Yulai IX station was a place perfectly suited to do that job. This isn't simply about making it look pretty. Yes it is a station, one of so many spread all over the cluster but none of them come close to being able to stand as a beacon of hope that our civilisations have a future besides mutual destruction while fulling that purpose.

Now I don't hold out much hope there ever will be a lasting peace between the Empires, the grievances run to deep and none of them can even conceive of looking forward instead of dragging things back into the past every so often. But rebuilding it would at least be a visible sign to the cluster that no matter what destruction is wrought we will not simply lie down and let those dreams be shattered.

I would hardly call it 'functioning' when most of it's facilities have been destroyed and most diplomats now avoiding it. Restoring it would be a first step towards showing everyone that CONCORD still tries to work towards it's ideals, despite heavy opposition.

Frankly, i'm somewhat appalled by your derogatory and apathic stance on this. It does not befit the organization you claim to be working for. Interstellar diplomacy and broken ruins are not a good mix, functional or not, diplomacy and politics is not about functionality but about symbols, gestures and signals - Not fixing the station sends the wrong versions of all 3, which is something CONCORD doesn't need right now.

If anything, it shows that CONCONRD doesn't care at all anymore and just sits by, as if only caring about the 9 to 5 job of patrolling space. This is not the stance or attitude we need from the organization which is supposed to uphold peace between the empires.