Intergalactic Summit

Was referring to the people babbling about verdicts. Your observation was quite correct, was merely offering my two corporate scrip tokens to reinforce the point. . .

[EDIT] And . . . looks like I fell into that one quite neatly, Alizabeth. Well played. Who knew preparing for war would make me so terrible with jokes?

You have clearly confused the State's division of power with the framework of the Federation. The CEP owns the CBT, like Ishukone owns the Ishukone Watch.

The separation of powers is/was eight very powerful corporations set against one and other in a variety of ways and aligned together jointly in a few key areas.

What you are seeing is when one of the Eight's leadership decides it has broader appeal to the masses employed across the State than the corporations that employ them. We have yet to see one of its Peers decide enough is enough and meet force with force.

That is how power in the State is separated.




Tuulinen-haan, we would be deluding ourselves if we did not recognize the means by which Heth-haan and the CPD came into existence, with the threat of widespread riots across the State in opposition to the Corporate management.

While there was no vote to put Heth-haan into power, widespread disillusionment and the desire of the common man for an end to corporate nepotism forced those in places of power to accept the new order or sacrifice their lives and the lives of those they held most dear. There is a reason only Ishukone stood in his way.

Probably also had some thing to do with the fact that the charges put forth but the Intara family were all based upon allegiance to the Kaalakiota Corporation off which i have no ties to. If you check their original post you will see what I am talking about.

Partially, you are right. I do make some mistakes between both political models, as both seem quite alien to my understanding of the world. But only partially.

Any political system is built by the elites in power in it, as a way to maintain control of the masses below them. This is the case with the Empire, the Federation, the Republic, the Kingdom... and the State. Thus, the Eight built the system so they could fight their internal wars/competition for dominance without hurting their bottom line of economic benefits to reap. Thus, though the system was not perfect in its division of power between the Eight, it was good enough to make them all accept the rules for it.

Heth butchered those rules when he overtook power, but apparently using loopholes and options theoretically inside the system. With a certain degree of consent, though not as extended as he'd like. This, though, is a breaking of that in the deepest sense: it has attacked a "neutral" institution of the Eight, overweighting his power above the interests and law requisites of another corporation. By doing that, it's broken the rules of the game by witch the Caldari political system was created, and broken them not in a subtle way (buy buying of the judge, for example) but by an overt and obvious maneuver to break the justice system.

It has broken, thus, the division of power, because the Eight were the main players in the game they created, but they were not the rules of the game. And now, he has thrashed the board aside and tossed all pawns and queens to random corners of the room with his angry gesture.

What an interesting precedent. Let us hope it is also not a harbinger.

I hope the Caldari state destabilizes enough so that we can then come in and.....Help.....

Unlikely. Democracy is a particularly virulent memetic disease. They think they're actually helping when they spread it.

That you, of all people, would make such a statement is... well. I'd say "ironic," but in truth I don't think that word carries the contextual weight to express the monumental hilarity of the situation.