Intergalactic Summit

Duly noted, Revenent-haan.

Vikarion-haan, please forward me the mails? If you are going to rail against others as the more-dutiful-than-thou, you should surely provide some documentation.

Rikaato, Oniseki-kirjuun.

The ceremony is conducted by Caldari for Caldari. To take this tea from hands of a jaijii means obscenity and dishonor.
Please, in future, stay away from Caldari affairs and know your place, jaijii !

I missed a couple pages; What's all this talk of having Kim drink tea? She may be a bit misguided following Heth, and there are certainly idealogical differences between her and most of us (I will grant she is racist and abrasive), but I haven't seen her do anything that warrants the Tea Maker's ceremony, she has served the State with distinction and honor as far as I can tell.

Heiian is more subtle than merely taking up arms in the name of the State. It is the sacrifice of self-interest for the greater good.

If working for the good of my people comes at the expense of being excoriated by Vikarion, I'll take that as an indication that I'm doing good. My objective is the prosperity of the State, not the approbation of its warmongers.

And Diana - being Caldari is not a genetic thing, it's a merit thing. Get used to that idea and accept that you don't have to like somebody in order for them to be your kirjuun.

Yes, you have partaken of the tea, and it was part of what put you in a hospital, Kim, even in the minuscule dose you received. I was there to see the aftermath, much to my continued chagrin, and heard it from both of you shameful examples, if you remember correctly... I'll spare the indignity of identifying the situation or the other involved. It's disgusting enough to know about it. More so that I know what was done, and why, from start to ridiculous finish.

Caldari is a way of life, not a set of genetics. Any real Caldari learns this as a child, and honors it, as well as those who embrace the Way. If it was genes, you'd only half qualify (yes, I know you're half-Civire, since you've tried to use that as justification for stupidity like this before), since the blood of the original Caldari came from Caldari Prime. Nobody is any less Caldari by your decree, and never will be made less by it either. You only debase yourself, as I've seen you do countless times before in long, public declarations of support for a traitor, terrorist, and coward named Tibus Heth.

Yes, I'm a simple, unremarkable pilot calling you out on your rampant idiocy. I couldn't care less what you think as of late, Kim, but I want to make it perfectly clear how FAR from an example of our ideal you are to me at times like this, regardless of your accomplishments in the name of the State... Calling out a man who chooses to live as a Caldari should, on the basis of blood alone, when yours doesn't make the mark by the same standards you so loudly put forth.

While I find your combat record admirable in service rendered to the State, your constant hypocrisy regarding fellow citizens, and continual airing of your love of an enemy of the Caldari State, a man who murdered a true hero for refusing to obliterate Home, are impossible to find anything but loathsome. All the more in that you've learned nothing from it all, quite clearly.

I'm one of many who has offered you support, advice, and aid in what was clearly a difficult time for you in these past few weeks, as your loyalties were let down... And here, I see I wasted my time, a prospect that is repugnant, at best. In my final words of urging, never to be repeated... It's time to take a step back and see what you're shoveling, before it buries you completely. And perhaps decide what it's really worth to continue supporting the man whose repaid you by tucking tail and running when his time to meet the Maker came calling, since that's what started everything that resulted in a chunk being cut out of you, literally, in a pointless, meaningless, senseless duel that, in the end, changed nothing.

That's all I have to say to you, nor will I waste any time that is far better spent against enemies of the State, lowly and lofty, in any of your melodramatic, self-justifying scraps, such as what's landed you in intensive care, again. Such is a pirates way. A common criminals means. Are you a Gurista, Kim? Last I checked, such wasn't the case, so you don't have that excuse for such a far reaching lack of integrity.

For the rest of you, Vikarion, Korsavius, any fellow citizens of the State... Rikaato, for your service to the State in whatever capacities you fulfill, and the example you set.

Evidence indicates that, at this time, acting in support of former executor Heth is treasonous pilot Kim.

We Return

He's not wrong~

I have in fact done precisely zip to strengthen the Republic. Not a jot. To the point where it's something of a sticking point with my corporation that my presence makes it harder for us to anchor highsec towers. Low standing, you see.

I don't run missions for the Republic, I don't aid them militarily. My corp does, and I don't stop them, but I'm an industrialist and a cultural ambassador. I'm in the Republic to serve Caldari interests, not Minmatar ones, and have never made any secret of the fact. It's been something of an obstacle to friendly relations with some Minmatar corporations and individuals.

If you're going to accuse me, Vikarion, accuse me of the things I really have done, whatever they may be. I won't be lectured on Heiian by somebody with such a shallow concept of it.

Like hell I've been absent. I've been there for every single one. Get your head out of your backside.

And yes, I AM neglecting my obligations to my corporation right now. I've neglected them by spending my time in the State and in Luminaire doing the exact things you're accusing me of not doing.

Like I said, if you're going to level accusations at me, level the ones I actually warrant.