Intergalactic Summit

[CALDARI PRIME. Camera drones race above the fractured and tumbled floes of great frozen Tekojarvi. The ghosts of Amsten and Etee wail on a cutting gale - a banshee's cry across plains of ice. Lights on the horizon, and the drones beep to one another almost in relief.

Temperate Command Center "LUOSTARI-JO GOGOMO." On a suitably high balcony of the gilded but otherwise functional structure, our dear crone stands almost indistinguishable in black, unnaturally fuzzy furs from head to toe. To her right in pristine white stands the diminutive and alien Other Rabbit; left, decked in crimson lined military cold weather gear, a pot-bellied Ealurian with fine spectacles brushes ice from his neatly trimmed mustache. Behind them all looms the silently cylindrical kameira, blotting out the walls of the command center with his formidable bulk.

Below on the tarmac, cadres of stoic employees wait patriotically in the cold for twelve long torso choir boys to finish the State anthem. At its conclusion, Deteis with immaculate and identical blond crew cuts lead units of co-workers through morning calisthenics, chanting "Go Go Go.. GO-GO-MO" in flawless unison.]

"The supply lines are unusually long, of course," observes the Ealurian after some time. "This consumes more power than may otherwise be necessary, limiting our total productive capacity."

As it must be, my dear Dr. Mheket, to extend our good fortune to as much of the troubled surface as possible! Bacteria, proteins, and biofuels - a humble but necessary beginning to a glorious journey of medical science!

"The characteristics of this planet are most intriguing," agrees the good Doctor. "Will the Brutor be delivering biomass from Aphi III? We will need it to begin on the viral agents necessary for our vaccination work. With so much die-off, disease presents a serious threat."

Never have so manky plankton given their all for such a good cause!

[The crone breathes in deeply.]

Oh, dear. I think I just froze my lungs. "Temperate" my, well, you get the picture.

"Yes, madam," agrees the cylindrical kameira.

Right then, everyone inside! Boys! Boys! This way. Warm one another up. Tea! Tea, please!

We are combat pilots in first place. And it is in our power to unite efforts and strike back, any Federation asset, that can be harmed by capsullers, should be harmed. Any Federation supporters, that can be killed by capsuleers, must be killed. We must make anything possible to prevent such situation ever again. We must save innocent people lives by destroying everything related to Federation.

They will pay for what they done.

I am a combat pilot, kid. I am flying with many peoples who share my ideas and goals. So, please stop using this drugs and try to look at the real world at least once.

You appear to be less interested in the ideals and cause of your faction and more interested in just having something to shoot at.

People like you are why the empires will take ages to find peace, if they ever do. You seem more fit to be a pirate than a soldier fighting for a cause.

Ideals? Of course, I am not interested in ideals. Ideals are empty words. Only gallentean dumbheads can take others lives because of their ideals. That's why they should be disposed of. That's why I feel no pity when I pull trigger on gallenteans.

What is worth defending are actual interests, actual territories, resources and human lives. Including protecting humans from idealistic bigots like gallentes.

Actually, I would name pirate a soldier who is fighting for an ideal or personal gain.
Real soldier fights because of duty and follows orders, not just shoots around.
Maybe it is hard to understand to a gallenteans, whose brains were liquefied by numerous gallentean holoreels, that represent bigoted idealistic idiots as heroes and professionals as villains.

Behind Damar Rocarion, you're basically the laughing stock of the Caldari militia. The only people who fly with you are those who don't know better.

Come and make me, you petulant child.


Firstly, you don't get to decide that. Secondly, sitting on a station in a battleship one-shotting industrials and frigates and flying in fifty-man blobs doesn't make you a combat expert.


Congratulations! Now you know how literally everyone on the IGS feels about you. You know literally nothing and you should shut up.

Your claims, that i only
just show that you have no idea of what I am doing, how i fight and what are you talking about. If you pull a couple of examples, that you somehow managed to find out, but ignore many others, you are indeed blind and ignorant.

I have been paying attention. You suggested that Ishukone were acting improperly because they want to gain access to grant aid diplomatically rather than coming in guns blazing which would result in the death of more Caldari citizens as relief vessels (which aren't known for their armaments and ability to take punishment) get caught up in a fight.

Again, it seems as if you don't care about the people on the ground so much as saving face and getting revenge, neither of which will help those people.
You have that person arrested, so they can be tried for their crimes and brought to justice. If you skipped straight to killing them right back, then we might as well not have police, because we'd just be a barbaric anarchy.

The Federation needs to answer for their crimes, but, thus far, throwing the Navy at the problem has proven somewhat less than effective.


I am not a coward. I have come to the defense of the State on multiple occasions, and I was there at the battle of Shiigeru trying to defend Caldari interests. Trust me, we did what we could to fight back when we were hit, but we got our asses kicked. Right now is the time to heal our wounds.

Taking rash action might only serve to injure us further. We should not take this attack lying down, but there are other ways to demonstrate strength and solidarity. Also you have framed your intentions mostly in the the terms of vengeance which can be a slippery slope. A slope I feel the State has slid down too far under Heth's rule (I appreciate his reforms to bring us back to a better meritocracy, and was fully behind the actions to reclaim Caldari Prime and maintain defense of the State, but his handling of Gallente peoples out of blind hatred are appalling and have only served to provoke the Federation).

This move by Ishukone should be seen for what it is; an example of the benefits the State can reap from a multi-headed approach to both foreign and domestic policy.

Kaalakiota, Wiyrkomi and Sukuuvestaa are all ill suited for this form of compromise laden speech-craft, embedded as they are in maintaining a military stance and pursuing engagements through traditional warfare. The very mechanisms that support the majority of the megas lend them strength in their own areas of dominance; competition is a way of life and if you don't have something to bring to the battlefield, culture and market, you're not going to last long.

Ishukone has long been close to the Federation economically, but I have never seen any indication of social or political unity that would go beyond that required to secure benefit for the corporation. I am not privy to the specifics, of course, but I am familiar with the general attitudes of Ishukone employees and executives from prior dealings, and they are as focused on mega-corporate benefit as any Patriot or Practical. One could argue that their willingness to expand their markets into foreign domains on their terms has hardened them against cultural erosion, as much as they have exposed themselves to such forces.

Specific to this topic, Ishukone are doing a service for the State. We need to fight, to carry on and wrest back what is our, but we also need to realise that any nation is judged by how it treats it's citizens when they are beyond their means to survive. Regardless of race or allegiance, any human being on Caldari Prime not possessed of a firearm and intent to use it, needs relief. They need this conditional olive branch.

We do not need peace with the Federation. The civilian population of Caldari Prime, what little may remain, needs only the conditional cessation of hostilities around key evacuation sites and a break in the Federation blockade. We extend one hand of many for this token of humanity; but we keep another seven clenched mega-corporate fists ready for any sign of betrayal or jockeying for advantage.

Remember, Caldari, we fight on but we never forget that our actions echo through our children.