Intergalactic Summit

Alas, current polling data suggests no. It's even trending as 'intrepid' and 'audacious' in some University of Caille polls, but as we know, UoC surveys are in the main designed by nitwits who'd start holding their collective breaths if they learned their local oxygen wasn't sourced via 'socially conscious' providers.

Ah. That gives me an idea. Thank you.

I believe I would call those that do speak up in the State either, "Director" or, "Executive". This only because it should be only those who through talent, ability, determination and hard work rise to a position of leadership and authority in their corporation or organization whose opinions matter for they lend their own merits to their thoughts.

Perhaps to put it another way: An opinion in the State is earned through work and merit. It is not a right or privilege given to all as in the Federation.

As such, both a dissenter and activist would be a person who values their opinions greatly but is either too incompetent or incapable to prove its value practically to others.

I had similar concerns to Bastian Valoron:

• wondering exactly what kind business information had been disclosed during the IPO?
• who else the underwriters had approached?
• the size of the offering, and the nature of the projected cash flow or assets used to secure the debt?
• whether Veikitamo Gesakaarin had equity or had been employed by [STRIX] prior to the IPO, or had bought securities issued prior to the filing of the preliminary prospectus for instance?
• and of course what Gervais Zhang or, his factotum and CEO of Strix Armaments and Defence [STRIX] Marcel Bigeard had to say on the matter?

Then I realised the OP was right all along and that I, and Valoron, were indeed fools. This Strix Defence and Intelligence [STXDI] only superficially resembled Strix Armaments and Defence [STRIX]. That this was in reality little more than an equity carve out of a very recent corporation with no reputation, not the shell of the once illustrious, not the scalp of the now defunct STRIX. So if you'll forgive me, STXDI is less the feared Gallente wasp more an ex-Gallente hover fly.

Having realized this I can only wish that the name of STRIX is as lucky for the Caldari as it was for Gallente - they say that imitation is the most sincere complement of all.

Thanks I suspect you're right, Mr Valoron is a stooge. I have little doubt that creating a false impression is his only utility. Katrina I believe your caution is entirely justified under the circumstances. A plausible rational might entail the ability to stay on both sides of the conflict hedging discounts to materiale and arms procurement. You and I Katrina belong, or have belonged, to alliances who at much the same kind of time were at war with the erstwhile STRIX, within a couple of months of being at war with each other in fact . So I should imagine we regard the pedigree of this other STXDI with a jaundiced eye.

But it did have Zagamesh in it, didn't it?



The only productive asset of the now defunct STXDI, and top killer of the old STRIX has left the building. This might prompt a reset of Quantum Cats Syndicate standings but they are a special case. It would answer the obvious question, the one that immediately sprung to my mind, and also to serve as a valedictory courtesy. Zagamesh is, you see, both a former STRIX pilot, Quantum Cat, and now a former STXDI pilot.

So is this really what's up, or is the post just a cover giving this legal smoke and mirrors a certain verisimilitude. In the same, or a similar capacity, but less hysterically than the role in which Mr Valoron has been cast. Anyway, I think I would carefully watch this corp, for on balance I favour this latter explanation, it's the more convincing imo.

In circumstances such as this, where the unfolding events could be seen as just a bit too convenient, I tend to stay on the cautionary and reserved frame of mind. In the surveillance world, it is best to remember "things are rarely what they seem." A bit of a paranoid outlook, perhaps, but one that has served me well over the years.

However, as I have no direct involvement with the organization at this time I really don't have much of a position on this one way or the other. If there is a request for analysis from the governing State entities in this matter, however, I would advise an extended probationary period with some appropriate limitations as there are some subtle incongruities that should be addressed. Keep in mind, I say that only as a distant observer and their may well be legitimate explanations for what appear at a distance to be troubling.

Each of those strategies is as ancient as the history of conflict itself, Captain. If this is what constitutes the "war of the future", the only sensible conclusion to be drawn from that is that war never changes.

Colonel.

Technically, "Captain" is a correct term for any person who commands a single ship, military or civilian, so I must (smirkingly) agree with Ms. Katla on this occasion ... Captain.

Not from me, no.

Your fellow brutes may address you however they please. I, on the other hand, am not bound by those formalities. Since you are a capsuleer, I allow you the same courtesy of address I show any other spaceship commander with whom I have no previous acquaintance: "Captain".

If that title is not to your taste, I can address you as "Gladiator" instead, since that is what you are. Push the issue further, and I'll instead address you as "whelp".

Let me know which you prefer, Captain.

Oooooooo, Gladiator. I Iike that.

And I shall call you Teapot.

Carry on, Teapot.