Intergalactic Summit

Well put. That many improbable changes happening to that high-profile a man on that specific date in that specific political atmosphere? You could bury a battleship under that big a pile of coincidences.

Adopt a clonejack as your null hypothesis, and all of those coincidences cease to apply, and the only questions left to be answered are "who?" and "how?"

He had no way of knowing that Otro Gariushi would die for sure. This was the first recorded instance of using a supercarrier to ram a station - he wouldn't have had a firm idea of any detail about the outcome. Almost everything we know about direct attacks on stations, in point of fact, is gleaned from what he allegedly did.

You're quite right that the death of Otro Gariushi might hurt the State in the long run (given that you've been saddled with a corrupt and venal leader whose fanaticism is costing his country billions of credits and thousands of lives every day) but in the short run it caused an undeniable military and economic resurgence.

Actually....

Hang on, capsuleer ships collide with each other, with stargates and with stations all the time. And bounce off, usually with considerable force and velocity because of the shield envelope interactions and the standing emergency warp fields.

Why the hell am I only just remembering that now? You can't ram a station and damage it under normal circumstances. There are failsafes in place to prevent exactly that scenario. Failsafes which to the best of my knowledge are not under the pilot's control.

So we've got a scenario where:

1. A man who has tirelessly devoted his life to the peace process in a serious way...
2. "just snaps" without warning (which is psychologically highly improbable).
3. Forgets that his own survival and expertise would be of more value in aiding the Federation to win (strategically stupid)
4. ALL of the navigational failsafes built into both ship and station fail simultaneously. (unlikely to the point of absurdity)

What's the rule? once is accident, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action?

It shouldn't be impossible to hack the fail safes and shut them off though...right? Please tell me I'm right.

Did someone mention the Jovians? Because it certainly wasn't us.



Occam's Razor states - contrary to the popular belief that it's "the simplest solution is usually the correct one" - that "plurality is not to be posited without necessity." As my good friend Verin has often pointed out, the assertion that Admiral Noir "just snapped" rapidly becomes so complex and requires the convergence of so many seperately improbable events that it rapidly becomes a less favourable answer to the question than the proposition of outside tampering.

The question of who is something that might not be answered so easily - it would require significant investigation.



But Tovil-Toba's actions were not intentional martyrdom, or at the very least I don't think he'd see it that way. I think one of the reasons Tovil-Toba is so widely respected by the Caldari (and perhaps, one of the reasons he's so despised by the Gallente) is that Tovil-Toba probably didn't think he was doing anything all that special. He just thought "so, Command says we need about a month of Gallente-free aerospace over Caldari Prime. How can I possibly make this happen?" and basically just came up with the answer of "suicidally dangerous attack on Gallente Prime with basically 0% chance of survival. Oh, alright then, if that's what's needed."



Again, I think you're putting words in our mouths. I've never insinuated that Heth is primitive - a jackbooted thug, certainly, but a very, very intelligent one. He's been able to strongarm seven out of eight megacorporations and put very considerable pressure on the only one that won't consistently play ball. The fact that his brains are still in his skull and his body isn't a thin, greasy smear of particulate across the outer surface of an asteroid somewhere in null-sec attests to that.



Are you implying there wasn't more to Mekhios than meets the eye?

Boy someone sure is snippy today.

Here here man. Though I have to say, you don't have to be born in the Fed in my opinion. If you're sick of your life and you want a new start, you come to the Fed, go through the process of becoming a citizen, and be welcomed to the biggest freaking melting pot this side of the galaxy!

Hey Verin, just to clarify, you're getting my emails, right?

It's absolutely synonymous if we're talking about national rather than ethnic Gallente. It is, after all, the Gallente Federation. If we're talking about ethnic Gallente, that's the gene lottery rather than the border lottery. I suppose I won that one, too. I'll have to thank my mother for that.

Now you know how the rest of the cluster feels.