Intergalactic Summit

Short and sweet. And, I agree with you in the most part.

However, I can't help but feel almost cheated by this post.

It feels like there was a lot more in the draft but for some reason you cut it short?

I see what you did there.

The Federation at it's core is an idea. You'll never be able to kill an idea no matter how long you sit on that chair or inside that capsule loathing us. While your mouth keeps spilling out hate in typical fashion, I also know you are slurping some Quafe on the side, scanning Scope for the latest news and recently watched one of our holoreels.

I have a question regarding your statement above, ma'am. You claim that being Gallente is, at its core, being human. Are you implying to not be Gallente is thus to not be human?

Not to besmirch our allies, but you do know that they say the same things about us? And since when did the Caldari ever see affluence as a sin? To be honest, such claims - while exaggerated - are still sticky enough so that no one's hands are clean. Only by accepting our sins can we hope to purge ourselves of them.



Come now, that is pushing it, don't you think? Even the Matari have shown themselves perfectly capable of being civilized when raised in a more peaceful, enlightened culture. Yes, that was a shameless plug for the Ammatar Mandate. All people can be lifted up, given a willingness to be lifted.



Now dear, that's a bit harsh, don't you think? At least they're civilized and don't think books are something you cook stakes over. Their culture may seem chaotic but it's not an inherently destructive chaos. Personally, I feel the Federation is a perfect candidate for cultural assimilation. You see them as weak because they lack the drive and direction of your Caldari coworkers, but even without direction there is still energy. Energy can be harnessed - it only needs direction. Unlike some nations, when you offer to help the Gallente they don't try to chop off your arm.

If you want to "conquer" the Federation then I'd advise doing it the way Caldari do best: Financially. All those social safety nets, public universities, museums, and so forth cost a great deal of money, and can you imagine how hard it must be to get people in such a liberal society to actually pay their honest share of those taxes? You don't need to conquer a bankrupt planet when you can just buy it out from under them.

Likewise, my family has been petitioning the Federation to allow our missionaries to operate within their borders. They say that they're always open to new ideas, so I say let's give them some. When their lifestyles of aimless decadence wears thin on their souls they are always welcome to turn to us for spiritual guidance, and when it comes to spiritual guidance... well, we're the Amarr, what more needs to be said?

Most of all this can all be accomplished without resorting to senseless violence. Believe it or not, the Gallente do have much to offer us in some ways. They can remind us not to be so inflexible, and their creativity can enrich our own respective arts & cultures - provided we keep a close eye on it. Personally, I do not see the Gallente as enemies - more like sheep who do not yet realize how lost they truly are. But one does not beat a sheep for wandering. Rather, one merely gently guides it back into the fold.

I say the Caldari should offer peace and trade with the Gallente. Emphasis on trade. I'm sure you already know how competing on that particular front would favor the Caldari immensely. Why destroy that which you can profit from? Why send in marines to assault a space station when you can just wait for the owner to snort away their fuel budget and end up laying legal claim to the whole place with a well placed credit chip and a single savvy accountant? And what sane manager would turn down a Caldari's resumé that landed on their desk? They're Caldari, what more needs to be said?

There are more than enough pirates, renegades, terrorists and barbarians in the Universe that need their souls recycled as it is. I say save your missiles for them instead. The real threat is the people that can't be reasoned with.

Pig, you make me wish there was an easy method to jam FTL links.

Not at all, that would be a little silly. However I get the impression people in the Federation are more 'alive' as strange as it sounds. We have a positive outlook on life and we're all about the good times and partying hard.

I'm a Caldari that hasn't watched Gallente holos or listened to Gallente music. It was contraband at my duty station and I haven't made it a priority to rectify the situation.

Actually, I've probably heard Gallente music in station concourses, but no holos.

As I recall, when I was young some children with more neglectful parents were allowed to listen to Gallente music, that was before the meritocratic revolution. Now provists run the youth academies. My nephew tells me that nowadays one such offense against your culture is acceptable, a day's worth of PT in icy water and a ration-cut, but a young man made the mistake twice and earned himself a trip to a juvenile correctional facility in Ikao. The Caldari people are fed up with your snake-in-the-grass methods of corrupting our youth.

Of course. But ask the million upon trillion more people living in the Empire, for example, and see if they give you the same answers.
If two out of ten people give you an answer that doesn't correspond with the rest. Is that automatically the right answer just because it was made outside of the majority and therefore a bit more "special"?
It's unlogical at best.



No. This is not a thing we ALL agree on. Just by claiming that one thing is showing how narrow-minded you and your people are and another way of hanging yourself out in the cold. Once again I see no other man nor woman with other than a self-proclaiming, totalitarian egoism combined with, as someone else said; selfish individualism.
Gallenteans has always, and obviously will always, think of themselves as better than the other races or bloodlines in terms of politics, lifestyle and, God forgive them, even wisdom.
Even in a more insulting way than the ideas and ideologies of the holy Amarrians may seem to an outsider without knowledge.

In any case, this is not a newsflash for anyone. The Federation and it's people hasn't changed over the years, even though they proclaim to be the most dynamic and liberal society in New Eden.

Either this is a joke. Or maybe just a reminder for everyone else how grateful we should be for not being part of such blasphemy.