Intergalactic Summit

Ms. or Mrs. Oniseki,

I was wondering what decision you had reached about our alliance. If you would be so kind to make it public.

It appears our relations have worsened because you claim we support terrorism but the same time the Caldari State is a terrorist nation as we can clearly see in the events of the battle for the liberation of Caldari Prime.

Since technically we both support terrorism there should not be any reason for things to go sour between us.

Sincerely,

Major General Mekhana

Very well then.

If Federal civilians will be permanently removed, there won't be need in military control anymore.

Ideology aside, this is simply false.

Bloodbird, the only annoyance your infantile attempts at discourse (long though they are) have caused, is the realisation that my assessment of your character as an educated man from a single post was wrong. This only proves that I should have checked through your history, rather than taking a diamond in the rough at face value, a lesson I will take to heart.

As for the rest, you're a pretty typical creature - demand factual, evidence backed statements, claiming you do so, with no evidence of such. Simply put, you like the sound of your own voice, and I wish the both of you all the happiness in the world.

As for my fellow Caldari, I stand by my earlier words. This is a time of trials, of hearts exposed to the world or hardened into ice by refusal to realise the gravity of the situation we are in. I-RED demonstrates their commitment to their people, their civilians and their view of how the State should operate. No capsuleer organisation, nor any megacorporation, can claim to represent the State, but we, to an individual, represent facets of it. Today I-RED show that they are exemplary humanitarians. How will they account for themselves when the time comes to defend this world? None can say, the future is fluid and any one entity is still the result of uncountable minute forces at work within. We should all think hard about the lens through which we wish our peers to see us, but bear in mind that wishes are often shattered by realities. Only in this way can we steel ourselves for the hard road ahead.

Do not listen to those who say that you are wrong to feel in this situation. Do not act in such a way as to validate baseless attacks on the very fabric of our society by a Federation that means to push our home to the very brink of destruction. We may disagree on the extremes of our society, and even more so on the potential ways for this situation to go horrendously wrong for all involved. But we are Caldari, and when the dust settles, for better or worse, all we have is our shared culture and the guilt and/or relief of knowing that the ways we chose to act in the name of our State were visible on the largest of stages. I urge you, my peers, to feel with an intensity not known since your ancestors were forced from their homes. I cannot ever possibly know how hot that fire burns within you, even though I too am touched by our plight.

The weapons of our enemies are many; be they spoken, hurled or propelled through the void. Do not allow them the purchase in your minds, they have on your home world. Aim for the impossible, a Caldari home world and a clean conscience, knowing that the compromise between the two may be the hardest choice you will ever make.

I have nothing to say regarding your overall message to your peers, words of encouragement and support are necessary in times of distress.

What I do have to speak on is this little item hidden within it. The Federation is not the entity pushing at the moment, the Federation has tolerated the existence of a titan and your "Home Security" fleet for half a decade while its own citizens on Caldari Prime are held at gunpoint by the same fleet.

The Federation has attempted negotiation, which has been denied by the current leadership of the State.

The situation on the planet's surface is an unfortunate one, for both sides of the conflict. I extend my condolences to anyone that has or will suffer loss because of this situation.

You need not bury within your message a pointing finger at the Federation, a message of encouragement would have been enough.

No. No I guess not.



1) Caldari ownership indeed. The indigenous population that has remained on Caladri Prime for centuries after you left it behind. You of course, meant State ownership. The usual.

2) Of course we do. Because defending yourself from invaders or daring to fight back in a war is completely unforgivable when your opponent is the Caldari State. It's the usual.

3) Again, fighting against invaders and re-claiming your homes is unforgivable when the enemy is the Caldari State. The usual thing.

4) Indeed, homeworlds are not up for grabs. Except in the case of the Caldari State, having returned to try and grab it from the local population once again. But this is a non-issue to the State's people because obviously, the locals are squatters and count for nothing when the State returns to enforce THEIR claims. Who cares what others think? It's the usual thing all over again.

The usual thing in this case, being State-supporter's inability to see any view-point beyond their own., any argument beyond their own, and claims of ownership or rights, beyond their own.

How is anyone to try to be diplomatic with those who can't even try to immerse themselves in the complexity of the situation before them, opting instead for "we are right, thus you are wrong." ?



Excellent. You may begin then by evacuating any civilians in the two cities the majority of the fighting rages in, who desires to leave. The less people around where bullets are flying the less collateral casualties we have.

Evacuating non-caldari, non-citizen civilians without the explicit permission of local authorities will be impossible. And you can bet that there won't be a permission incoming.

Most likely a huge difference.
That or assisting the insurgents.

It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission in this case.

I doubt IFF tech will withstand the usual ewar considerations, and it is pretty clear that partisan tactics are at work. It;s going to get fairly messy when things boil over and every building with an intact front-wall becomes 'strategically vital' in street fighting. Homes, shops, it doesn't matter. Every slab of concrete, brick and mortar is a potential life saver when the going gets tough, and damn the inhabitants. Bloodbath is a term that utterly fails to describe what unmitigated surface warfare could lead to.

Anyone who can engage in some effort to lift civilians should be doing so. Were that I blessed with the connections planet side to do so, I would be doing the same.