Intergalactic Summit

We disagree about the necessity, then. We could easily ditch Black Rise without threatening a collapse of the State - but why should we?
Until this war is resolved we're taking up arms against our sworn enemies, for this threat is a harsh reality and would be more obvious if you'd spend more time on the frontier. This is sovereign territory we're talking about after all. You can question the CEP's - and the Senate's - motivation for continueing this type of conflict, but do not question those who are fighting it. I don't know where you've served, but I am pretty sure that complaining to your superior officer about a task being 'a waste' would've not met with approval. You get your orders, and you'll work your best to fulfill them within the given parameters. And don't get tempted too hard to construct a hypothetical cause for rebellion along the 'think of the children'-line of arguments.

Neither I, personally, nor we as a unit will win or lose that war single-handedly. We're, however, capable of having some local impact. If we leave, these locals - alongside the operational capabilities of the megacorporations owning the infrastructure - will have it worse than they do now. Furthermore, our presence allows some general peacekeeping activities that go beyond what local law enforcement can handle. Plenty of reason, no?

I fight this war because to me the price of not fighting it is cost I am unwilling to bear as a citizen in a position to do something about it. Not only because the Fourth District of Black Rise is of vital strategic importance to Kaalakiota. Nor is it because I believe my fellow citizens should spend one day under foreign dominion by Federal occupation troops who as drug addled conscripts barely rank above the basest of thugs and who partake in scorched earth campaigns that destroy the lives and livelihoods of those that live in the colonies caught in the CEWPA warzone.

It is because I cannot trust the motivations of a robber baron of a Federal President such as Roden who was elected to office with the most dubious of legitimacy and whom, as a man who made his fortunes as a merchant of death has a vested interest as far as I can see in continuing a war in order to secure his domestic powerbase and the necessity of strengthening the Federal military-industrial complex. Nor can I trust a man such as Mentas Blaque who has always advocated policies of military and economic containment against the Caldari State who has currently been entrusted with command of a secret police force in the SDII whose capabilities the CPD could only have hoped to achieve in their wildest dreams and whom given the nature of the man who commands them are no doubt rooted in the same sort of virulent nationalism as the Templis Dragonaurs or Duvailer.

So I suffer through what you may think is a pointless war that is no such thing for me. For it is only here on the front-lines of the current conflict that not only can I defend my fellow citizens and Kaalakiota but also seek to exert my own political visions of a future where my sons will not have to fight the same war I am fighting and that in order to ensure that necessary peace then so must I apply calculated violence against men and women such as Roden and Blaque just as much as I must apply it to men and women like Heth-guri and those who followed him in the CPD and the Templis Dragonaurs.

Such a peace is not possible only with words, but also with decisive action both politically and militarily into the future.

We get our orders from higher up as well. While there's some liberty in what contracts to take or not it's not endless.

Besides, we have disagreed on the severity of that threat a while ago. Why are we still discussing it? We've also covered that we'd better enlist in the TLF to fight 'the biggest threat to the cluster' at some point.

Indeed. They apparently neglected to educate you on the difference between diplomacy and begging.

I rest my case.

The problem is, that it is only the militia now who does the real fighting, so if you want to serve your duty to the State, you have to join the militia.

Unfortunately, the Navy does not participate in the conflict on large scale. Of course, I would prefer for the Navy to launch full scale assault on the federal space with militia as support forces. But it is the militia who have to do the war instead.

The current situation does not place the State in the good position: the most fearsome and professional Navy in our cluster gets dusty in docks, while majority of capsuleers of Caldari origin are traitors, dissidents, outlaws, gallente-lovers or other type of scum that are afraid to fight the war or even more - want US to stop fighting to give gallenteans upper hand.

This makes me think that the whole capsuleer program was a mistake: you cannot put a capsuleer to a firing squad if said capsuleer will join gallentean forces instead. We need much stronger control and monitoring. At first, capsuleer program was only for military use in the State, and I am really sorry to see what has it become. If the State would assume control over capsuleers, it would be a huge step towards the Victory !

I would like to see more of THIS, kirjuunet and less of what I've been reading. It's shameful that dedicated State Loyalists should feel that they have to defend themselves like this, in public, from those who should be their allies.

I'd like to see a lot more solidarity between so-called State Loyalists.

My thanks to Admiral Oniseki-haani for opting to be the first to take the high road.

Again, you fail to see anything beyond your nose.

I treated you with respect for two whole months while you slung mud in my face and telling me how much you'll enjoy killing every single Gallente that you could.

If you really want at me Kim, you can find me easily enough since I have lately been handling missions for the Caldari Navy in and around the system of New Caldari. Seems there's been a rise in pirate activity as of late. Not sure how the Navy would take to you firing upon a duly contracted worker though.

But, you continue to prove my point. You are nothing but a bully, a bigot, and a blowhard.

I find it telling that the State Protectorate wasn't wound up at the same time as the CPD. It seems that the CEP has some need, still, for the milita and the war we fight.

If anything it's even more legitimised now that Heth and his lackeys are no longer a part of it.

That would be a welcome development. Of course I, personally, would like to see the disbanding of the Black Eagles as part of a peace settlement. We've named and shamed our paramilitary terrorists. Theirs are still on the Federal payroll.