Intergalactic Summit

I'm continuously disgusted by you all.

And here I was hoping to calm down and overcome my anger.

This week is not helping.

Hm, rising tensions indeed. Why anyone would immigrate to the Federation in the first place is beyond my comprehension.

I know I have uttered skepticism toward the Federal government before on these boards. I also realize I have drawn criticism for voicing my wish for a more culturally conservative policy on my people's ancestral homeworld. I am abandoning neither of these positions, but I still feel the following needs to be said:

The behavior described in this news report is disgraceful. What the Republic did was inexcusable, but misplaced acts of retaliation against common Federation citizens of Minmatar origin are equally inexcusable. It is, unfortunately, a lesson which lower class street rabble such as these, emboldened by generations of populist mob rule, are painfully slow to learn.

I share the anger and grief at the deaths of the thousands of gallant Navy crewmen yesterday, who did not deserve such a fate at the hands of a nation claiming to be our ally. However, I implore any would-be avengers to pause a minute and consider this question:

How many of those Federal Navy crewmen were themselves Minmatar? How many Minmatar died defending our borders, our sovereignty and our people yesterday?

I do not know the answer. I do not even need to know the answer. The question itself is enough.

We, the Gallente, were not the sole victims of the Republic's attack yesterday. It was an attack on all of the Federation. I call on the common man of Gallente origin to remember that when he walks past the house of his Minmatar neighbor: Remember that he was attacked the same as you. He may have lost loved ones of his own, fighting alongside yours. His grief and his anger are the same as yours.

And to you, Minmatar of the Republic, who pride yourselves on coming for your people, I have this to say: When you invaded us yesterday, when you attacked the ships of our navy, it was your own people you fired on.

Remember that.

And history repeats itself with civil uprising through senseless and pointless civilian on civilian violence.

Well f##king done people, I hope you're proud of your accomplishments yesterday.

Well, enjoy your precious democracy and all the delusions of safety it brings, I suppose.




Try finding a job in the Republic's stale economy; I'm sure you'll realize quickly enough.

Nationalism is the most infantile of diseases, surpassed only by racism.

It is.

Many of the other cadets at the Academy when I was in the capsuleer training program were of some level of Matari origin - most of them were in the other, non-capsule programs due to what I assume to be CONCORD or DED regulations, but Minmatar residents of the Federation do make up a large portion of the armed services.

You are saying like every Gallente is commiting violence againts the Matari population in the Fed, knowing the media they are blowing this out of proportion and im sure that such thing happened also before the yesterdays event and still be happening after the masses forget about this, simply beacause people are what they are.

Any spacer Minnies requiring passage from Fed space to either the Republic or State can drop OTSI a line. We'll see if we can't organize the travel, and possibly even gainful employment should the resumes be attractive.

It is exactly that. An assumption. The way you speak about it, you make it seem like the entire Federation is hell-bent on abusing the Minmatar.

I would also like to remind you that the case you mentioned earlier was about trying to get the Federation to recognise the different tribes as individual ethnic groups rather than as just "Minmatar" after the student in question (a Brutor) had trouble acquiring a scholarship to study engineering due to the "Sebiestor staffed administration office" basically telling her to bugger off and do another subject.