Intergalactic Summit

When I look at the history between the Federation and the State, and then compare it to the history of the Empire and the Khanid Kingdom, I always end up wondering why the former could never learn the lessons of the later. When we had a tiny little chunk of the Empire decide to split off and do their own thing the Golden Fleet promptly responded by... doing nothing. Yup. We just let them go. You don't hear news stories about us shooting at each other three hundred years later, either.

But then I suppose there is one crucial difference: Culture. With the Amarr, it is our Faith that unites us. The Empire don't fret over the Kingdom or the Mandate because we still remain united in Faith. The Federation and the State however... far too different I suppose.

Still, though, really wish you two could get it through your heads already. You, over there in the green ships: The Caldari are quite happy with living in a non-democracy. Shocking, I know, but it happens, and if you really believe in freedom then you'd believe in the freedom to not be just like youselves. And you, over there in the blue ships: Egads give the nationalistic patriovomit a rest for a minute, will ya? And stop trying to dress up your own expansionism as anything other than plain, old fashioned greed. If you're so good at capitalism then why can't you just use your boardrooms & stock exchanges as weapons and buy them out?

Crystal clear.



Hard to compare. Heideran VII rule was only starting and the political turmoil that followed his rise to the throne prevented him to do anything.

In Amarr politics, an Emperor only holds an absolute power when he has the support or agreement of the Privy Council.

The Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive will continue its operations in Syndicate until Ishukone Corporation (and only Ishukone Corporation) mandates otherwise.

We follow our orders as they are given, and those orders do not currently include direct participation in the CEWPA.

However, I-RED stands by its commitment to provide support to our business partners and friends. Should those sharing positive standings require our aid, we will not hesitate to send Ishuk-Raata forces to the warzone. Requests for this aid should as always be carried out through the proper channels, not through replying to this post.

Respectfully,
Shosho Katrina Oniseki
Sub-Director, Public Relations & Diplomacy

**** the State.

The sooner Heth utterly fails and is thrown from power, the better. Hopefully this push into BR helps that cause.

I have nothing against war.

It is merely one way in which we compete amongst ourselves to see which nations, ideas, and systems of governments are dominant. It uses the oldest means to gauge the victory, in that the strongest of these usually win out amongst their competitors.

Competition comes in many forms. Diplomatic jockeying, economic warfare, the exporting of ideas to other cultures to change the beliefs of individuals, and so on. War is the ultimate form of competition, where individuals that stand in the way of your belief system are eliminated, rather than trying to convert them to your side.

My beef with Heth isn't that he's a warmonger. It's that he's proving with his successes that the Caldari should follow him and his "blame the Gallente for all our problems" rhetoric. It's leading our people down a darker, even more xenophobic and isolationist path. He's a dictator, plain and simple, someone who is unworthy of the position he currently finds himself in.

We expect the various null-sec Sovreign alliances to get distracted by something shinier in short order.

I love you too, Sansha. Trust me on this, I did not miss the look of your face while I was gone.

As for the very second post around... honestly, there was little else to comment on. I'm not as... generous, with my available time as I used to be, and little else cought my eye.

Next time you want to write about the Federation, try to leave out some of the fact-twisting, blatant lies and bare-faced favoritism and smearing. I would expect a quality would-be Caldari National like yourself to be above such childish antics, but apparently I was wrong.

Didn't Diana Kim post something like this a month ago?

"Blahblah we Caldari are so badass blahblah". We know. Aren't you State capsuleers capable of a bit more of an original discourse?

But I am more intelligent, moral, and sophisticated than the rest of you.

Seriously, though, the thread was pretty much the same thing.

This is not an entirely accurate criticism, Msr Inhonores. Kim-haani's thread was a general purpose exhortation to extra effort whilst Vikarion-haan's rallying cry was specifically due to the changing situation in the Warzone. Whatever you may feel about the specific message, and I assure you virtually identical chest-beating can be found in similar FDU threads, this was not a random 'Aren't we awesome?!' circle-jerk.