Intergalactic Summit

Mr. Shogaatsu is of course right that this war is very much pointless on the surface, and that the Minmatar have yet to face the Amarr Navy. The only point of this war is to demoralize Amarr citizenry. Keep in mind that the "empire" is only just now becoming an empire again, it hasnt been a true empire since the times of Heideran VII and in the absence of an Emperor the Amarr have become weak, liberal and now seemingly pay lip service to their God by and large. They may have cheered at the return of their Dark Queen but I sense that when rubber hits the road, and it comes time to truely trade their new found freedoms, individuality and return to a harder, more pious life style they will call for the return of parliamentary rule.

The key turning point will be the inevitable reprisal of the Empress. If she succeeds then you are correct, she will have a reinvigorated, energized and devoted nation that will not only cripple, if not crush the Republic but also lay waste to much of New Eden as we know it. However, if we (the Minmatar) can, right out of the gate hit them hard enough to let them know that we broke their nose in the first swing, then the religious ferver will turn against the Empress.

We Free Nefantar have a fighting style that we have developed called Joten'hule based and streamlined on many Intaki, Caldari and Minmatar fighting styles. Its philosophy is to allow larger more powerful opponents to use their own size and strength against them. Grappling, using the enemes inertia as power to multiply the damage of a weak slap into thunderous back hands, dodging and weaving and generally allowing the enemy to become winded and then committing full on to an attack.

This of course is nothing new to the Minmatar, this is how we have always fought. We have historically been pack hunters and strike from shadows and returning to the shadows before a counter can be laid. But as you have pointed out, and correctly I might add, recently we have begun to adopt larger more "in your face" attitude to combat and I fear this may be a cause for concern, especially when the Tribal Liberation Forces are face with not 24th IG mobs but rather the Imperial Navy.

Ms. Mai, I applaud you on your beliefs, the world needs believers, though from my rather biased view less of the ones you represent. In your faith you see the Elders Invasion as a failure and indeed in many respects it was. What could have been a devastating raid was turned into a cluster .... because we saw one woman which we wished to kill and began to foam at the mouth instead of staying on task, however you discount the purge of parliament, the reunification of the Seven and the revelation that the Elders still existed.

True believers like you will of course never be swayed by one or one thousand battles, however true believers like you are a rarity in your nation now as made evident by the person who began this conversation's desire to bash the 24th for its lack of progress but his unwillingness to join the cause, the fact that PIE is now AWOL, Wolfsbrigade is allied with the Gallente and that the once mighty Empire, who would snub its nose at the likes of Mordu, Fatal and the Rabbit and all the other despot nations, now welcomes Nulli Secunda as their saviors. Your list of believers grows short my dear whilst the Elders Invasion, while a tactical blunder, has spawned legion within the Tribes.

So I say again, one good blow and all the weekend believers whom hail Sarum while revolt leaving only a handful of believers like yourself where as in the Tribes, we are all believers now.

I believe the phrase all of you are looking for is "Panem Et Circenses." [ Bread and Circuses ]

You should take another look at the majority of militia pilots and reconsider your definition of "elite" and who the "unwashed masses" are.

You are also mistaking who the faction war is aimed towards appeasing. The great masses called out that "something must be done", and recognizing that to actually do something would be to push the four empires into an unceasing war of destruction, they signed a treaty to make limited engagements involving capsuleer proxies the norm. This satisfies the baseliner braying in anger, and conveinently also keeps a large number of dangerous and violent capsuleers shooting something other than the home planets of the empires.

Too bad it costs so many lives.