Intergalactic Summit

Look, minmatar, if you don't know what is going in the State, better just shut up, or ask any not dissidenting citizen instead of making crazy assumptions.
I am not in the mood to lecturing jaijii like you right now.


If you are so confident about your lovely Federation, why wouldn't you just go lick their boots as you did a couple of years ago (whose boots they were? Qcats or some other federal scum?)
Ahh, I forgot! We are beating their sore bums all over the place and you are afraid for your own bum? Very well, continue hiding in nullsec. Less trouble for our State.

Do I criticise the way you've chosen to serve the State, Korsavius-haan? You certainly didn't tell me to my face when you hosted that excellent party that you think State Protectorate service is worthless.

I don't think that statement was directed at you. Moreover, I clearly criticized the war itself as being pointless, never once putting "pointless" and "State Protectorate" together. Since we're on the topic, I think State Protectorate "service" in seeking conquest of systems beyond Black Rise is worthless and foolish, though. It only provides fuel to a fire that has long needed to die.


Please do. I would love to hear what someone like you has to lecture me about how this State operates.

It's very simple. We're there because THEY are there. And because they ARE there, we need to prosecute the war wherever the opportunity demands. Despite the acceptable conclusion to the matter of Caldari Prime. Despite the revocation of Heth's position. The FDU are still attacking in Black Rise. Do you think their own systems should be exempt out of some sort of Liberal generosity? No.

We will stay in the warzone until there is a negotiated peace. We will continue to bleed the FDU untill there is a negotiated peace. We don't need your approval or your thanks to do so. Continue doing whatever it is that you do to expand Ishukone's profits - it's noble enough work.

Oh, your experience, I see.

Do you know, minmatar, why of all four empires in our cluster, only Caldari through the history didn't develop slavery? eh?
Well, if you want, you can do just like your Minmatar-friends did when Amarr attacked you in the first place, and became slaves to the Empire to save your puny lives. I bet you know a lot about casting away your own pride, and being a bigger man-slaves. This is why you, minmatars, will never understand Caldari. We would better die than follow the path of humiliation, that your people are so experienced walking on.

But if you are eager to cast away some pride, I can make contact to my friends in the Empire, who will gladly allow you back to the slave pen, where you do belong.

While it is true that the limited conflict that is the CEWPA war is a brutal and bloody affair it is still not the most brutal and bloody of human affairs. At times a soldier must accept calmly the futility of their lives, and that at times they will be called upon to charge forward into death to purchase for others with their own blood the seizing of ground, the completion of an objective and for those at home perhaps a political solution that with dignity and honour secures the peace. I do not fight the CEWPA war for fortune, fame or glory but rather in the recognition that in its endless abyss of death and destruction lies the hope - however slim - that the conflict is contained and barring potential escalation does not proceed to Total War.

It really is as simple as that, and to me I will gladly undertake the sacrifices in such futile violence for that is the choice I have made according to where I feel my own duty lies. If I am the one the Winds have tasked to soak my hands in blood, to bear the burdens of conscience as bullet holes make their mark where my compassion used to be as I must continue to live while young men and women die under my command then so be it for at least it's better that I shall burn than my fellow citizens who are not in my position.

If you do not have the same fortitude and constitution to do so, Korsavius, then there is no shame in that for the Maker did not create us all equally: Some must fight and bleed while others enjoy the luxuries the sacrifices of others ensure and preserve.

We were born and raised for this. Once as Caldari, once as capsuleers.
It's all nice and dandy, after all, when you're resting comfortable and safe by putting a solid distance between this conflict and yourself or by simply trusting in the abilities of those who're fighting it.
What this reeks of, however, is not an extraordinary amount of faith, but rather a solid disdain for the military.
Nowadays it's not as easy to hide behind anti-Heth sentiments, isn't it? Nowadays we hear the same arguments, just without the words 'Heth' or 'Provists' in them.

Do not let me detain you, though, for I know why we fight, and more importantly who we're fighting for, and I don't need your absolution or cheering for doing my duty.

It is neither mine nor your call whether this war is a shameful waste or a necessity. We can have opinions on this, but in the end, yes, we have to do our duty, as befitting every conscripted soldier or corporate mercenary. Like I've hinted at, it is different on the frontlines. It comes down to the luxury of choice, too. No one is forcing me to do this. Other kirjuun do not have that luxury, and in my eyes, it is an insult to their sacrifices and deeds if I spend my time lounging in a tea house, complaining about the stupidity and senselessness of this war.

I'm not speaking up for myself, my associates or those pilots under my wings, I'm speaking up for my fellow compatriots - soldiers, engineers, pioneers, colonists - who're living in the contested territories. Is their struggle - their fate - a waste, too? I believe not. And don't insult them with the notion that bending over and giving up their homes - even if they're only the first generations of colonists - is an acceptable route. Do you think we'd be enjoying the current compromise on Home if no one would've fought back on the surface? Do you think we'd have that if we didn't cross the border in the first place?

Listen here, you have no right to say that. Not only because you have no power, but also because at least we are fighting for a cause.

what the hell are you fighting for? What are you striving for?! Nothing, that's what. So before you try to devalue my, and my fellow men's, endeavors and hard work, I suggest you bring your best hull and I'll show you who is the one getting wasted here.

Your arrogance to think that a petty war, which resolves nothing and leads to little more than the deaths of millions of men and women caught up in blind patriotism, is the only thing worth fighting for is astounding.

Verin has his own goals, his own causes and his own motivations, and I dare say they're better than yours.