Intergalactic Summit

Once again you seem willfully ignorant of political realities.

Let us set aside for a moment how massive a diplomatic slight it would be for the Empire to insulate a terrorist and revolutionary from an ally's justice, because little more than "it would be a massive diplomatic slight" really needs to be said. Because of the disastrous impact of Heth's abysmal economic and military policies, the various State corporations had to borrow a rather vast amount of money from the Amarr Empire and its various financiers. If it became publicly known that the Amarr were paying host to a terrorist and avowed enemy of the State, then the CEP and the various corporations who borrowed money from the Empire might feel that it was well within their rights to cease loan repayments. If this grant of asylum occured with the consent of the Privy Council, they would rapidly become deeply unpopular with the Empire's financiers, which, despite what the zealously religious Amarians on this board will tell you, is not something that the Privy Council can afford to do.

Contrariwise, were it to occur on the volition of a private individual without the Privy Council's assent, that individual would rapidly find themselves in so much trouble as to match, or perhaps even exceed Heth's plight in severity. At this point, Heth only really has to worry about himself - a Holder giving Heth asylum against the wishes of the Empire might easily find literally everyone he loves to be on the receiving end of the Empire's wrath.

So no, Horn, the Empire will most likely not be coming to Heth's aid. Then again, the Empire doesn't exactly have a flawless history of sound long-term planning, so I very much admit I could easily be wrong.

It's kind of ironic, really. If Heth weren't so consumed with his baseless, unfounded, irrational hatred for the Gallente Federation, he might remember that if you're on the run from the Caldari State, there's one place in the cluster that has more experience than any other with hiding Caldari fugitives from State justice. But then again, if Heth weren't so consumed with his baseless, unfounded, irrational hatred for the Gallente Federation, he'd never be in this situation to begin with. Poetic justice, really.

As an Holder of the Amarr Empire I will tell you the first thing we would do is pack him into a box and ship him back to the CEP...As you said yourself we are allies to the State, and the CEP leads the State. Not a declared Terrorist

If you honestly believe any of that gibberish is true, you are completely ignorant of political reality.

Annex the Caldari State? Do you honestly think the Federation wants to have the added responsibility of administrating four more regions of space occupied by what would, with absolute certainty, be an uncooperative culture? Do you think the Federation wants to spread Customs and the Navy even thinner around an even larger border? Do you think the Federation wants to have to deal with becoming the Guristas' primary target, instead of a barely-considered afterthought?

The only Caldari asset the Federation has ever been interested in from a military perspective between the end of the first and the start of the second Gallente-Caldari war is Caldari Prime, and we have so little interest in owning it nowadays due to the political problems that such ownership causes that when the opportunity presented itself for us to seize control of all of it, we negotiated with a foreign power with which we were at war rather than doing so

If you want an example of why forcible annexation of foreign cultures is an awful idea, look at the Amarr Empire. In the past half-millenia it lost almost a third of its territory to the Khanid, the Minmatar and to its semi-autonomous vassal the Ammatar Mandate simply because when an empire grows too large it is literally impossible to maintain control of. We've seen this dozens of times out in the nullsec regions, and hundreds of times throughout the history of the various cultures of the four empires.

If we "annexed" the Caldari State, in addition to all the fallout such an annexation would cause, all of your problems - the Guristas, the corporate infighting, the lack of centralised government - would become our problems. We don't want your problems. We have enough of our own

If he honestly believed this, he's as politically blind as you are. The State quite simply could not defeat the Federation in an all-out war. Your miliatry just isn't equipped or purposed to do anything remotely similar to this task. The State's military is designed to be able to defend the State's interests against foreign interference - it is decidedly not suited to the invasion, occupation and conquest of foreign powers, especially not the Federation. Notice that the only time the State's military was able to win a decisive victory against the Federation without overwhelming capsuleer support is when they had intimate insider knowledge of Tripwire - and they only seized one planet.

The rest of your post is just griping about how the rest of the Caldari State wasn't willing to kowtow to Heth's lunacy. He was a tyrant, a madman, a liar, a terrorist, a racist and after all was said and done, he's also a coward, because he refuses to face the justice of the Caldari State.

Face it, Horn - you picked the wrong side in this fight. Heth's going to lose, you know this, and you're just beginning to see that you'll get dragged down with him.

Roden and Blaque would jump at the chance the rewards are far to great.

Im not totaly uptodate on their histories.

Roden and Blaque would accpet all these problems with open arms. The rewards would be just to great.

I disagree with you also Andreus. Wether they would want to invade occupy the Federation im not sure.