Intergalactic Summit

I, too, would be interested to hear about the Admiral's whereabouts. I assume that a period of personal seclusion after such a traumatic conflict may be needed even by the likes of us capsuleers, but the lack of media coverage in general is disheartening.

Here's hoping we will hear more soon, even if not from the Admiral herself.

I find it quite dexterous the Gallente Senate can laud her actions under fire with one hand while having used the other to blast the ship out of orbit in the first place.

Lovely!

They felt it was necessary in order to save more lives than were ultimately lost.

I disagree with their assessment, but if they genuinely and honestly felt that the Shiigeru posed a greater risk to peoples' lives intact than destroyed then I can't fault them for acting on their conviction, nor for being happy that the Admiral took such conscientous action at the end.

Are we going to demand that people should not have the courage of their convictions to act and do what they think is right? Yes, I agree that I don't see what the Shiigeru was doing that was so threatening and if it turns out that the Federation acted out of knee-jerk fear rather than any solid intel then I'll join right in with condemning them for it. But I'm sick and tired of our people arguing over everything that happens. Sick. And. Tired.

If it takes a titan falling from the sky for us to finally come off the boil and start treating each other with some perkele respect, then in the long term it may have been a price worth paying. Maybe we should start doing that.

This level of spatial awareness, acumen and procedural ability is what all Caldari should aspire to.

I will be dismayed if she does not receive an accolade once the Navy is prepared to give their accounts of the battle disclosure.

That's a very serious accusation.



Nah, I refuse to believe that.

Let's not start up on the conspiracy theories, eh? She's most likely under a non-disclosure agreement, which given the circumstances is completely unsurprising.

Truly we should expect such from all Capsuleers regardless of nationality.

Also I will kiss Heth if I ever say this about a non-Foundations or non-Nation capsuleer ever again, but the Admiral in her final moments was a great hero and an example of how we should act. Give of yourself everything you can and more for Humanity. She did not check the passports of the people she saved. She did not care who they voted for in the Federation, or which Mega they worked for in the State. I can promise you if I went back in time and told her there were supporters of Nation on the surface it would not have changed her actions.

She did what she did for Humanity. And every time you all have your petty little arguments like the recent Rep/Fed one, you should all be ashamed. People die because you cannot see past you own damn flags or genetics. Wake up and fight for Everyone.

These words are not the official stance of the Foundations, but rather my personal ones along with some of my current ship's crew.

Well if I could provide harder evidence than gut instinct on what I know of Heth, then he'd likely already be dead, either at your hands or the hands of some other patriotic Caldari. I admitted right from the start that it was only a hunch, but I feel fairly sure of it. The man's losing his grip - on the State, on Caldari Prime, on Kaalakiota, on the Navy. These things we know to be true. As to losing his grip on his own sanity? I think we can make an educated guess, at least.

Is he capable of having Admiral Yanala killed? He was capable of ordering the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians. He started a war that has ended hundreds of millions. What's one more woman if it ties up loose ends?

Five years is also long enough for him to drift from reality and sanity, Hakatain-haan.

Assume for a moment that my supposition regarding Heth ordering an Oblivion strike on Caldari Prime is correct.

Admiral Yanala revives in a new clone with the knowledge that this order was made - the supposed saviour of the State and the Caldari people, ordering the outright destruction of the Caldari homeworld - of Home, as you call it. Do you truly believe that this information would be any less damaging to Heth's regime if it became public than the knowledge that he had Admiral Yanala offed? Killing Yanala might, just possibly, be spun in some way; perhaps as the deserved destruction of an incompetent or a traitor. If he was very careful, he could turn the grief of the Caldari people against a target other than himself.

But the knowledge that he had ordered a world-ender strike on Caldari Prime? If Admiral Yanala is truly as revered by the common Statesman as much as you say she is, her honest word that Heth had given her this order would be much, much harder for Heth to spin favourably - and if she is not as revered as to hold such confidence with the Caldari people, then killing her would not be so hard for Heth to justify to them. Admiral Yanala knows the truth - no non-disclosure agreement could be assured of holding back that knowledge, not if it was so critical to the Caldari people. Many Caldari citizens on the IGS have spoken in positive terms of breaking the letter of the law to uphold its spirit - and if Admrial Yanala is as good a person as she seems to be, this seems like the perfect example.

Heth considers his options. In one hand, he faces possible, perhaps even probable ruin at the hands of the Admiral who knows far too much about his true nature. On the other hand, he faces a difficult and deeply dishonourable course of action, but one that, if the matter were ever brought to light, might just be salvageable.

If I were a cynical bastard with a hell of a lot to lose, I know what option I'd choose.

And that is why I consider the CEP/CalNav investigation of the Shiigeru incident the opening move by the CEP against Heth.