Intergalactic Summit

The problem will have only you, gallentean filth.
Actually, consider you already have it.

Threats, threats, threats... And a lot of wailing.

I wouldn't worry about it Morwen... Not to say that you do. Given the sheer amount of air expelled, and never followed up on, I think we both know what this is. A last hurrah for a dying cause. A plea for attention.

Ordinarily, I'd at least wish a quick, painless end to someone so obsessed... But in this case? I hope she lives a long, long time... And suffers every minute of it.

We all earn our fates, good and bad, and this one is shaping up to be a lonely, cold, bitter path indeed, and well earned, despite the best efforts of some good people.

... No, it definitely wasn't. Did you read the last page at all?

I would agree that accepting a fight implying acceptance of honor and respect to the other side. And of course, to not lose my honor by dueling such honorless liar like you, I wouldn't offer you to do this. I prefer to simply shoot down gallentean scum like you as rabid dogs, not duel them, of course.

Oh, and if I were in place of this Kensei Miyamoto Tesshu, I would kill myself for having such honorless baka as you as a student, who disgraces this name by simply calling him (or her) your teacher.

Too bad. Playing with you is one of my favourite hobbies at the moment, so you can expect me to be a constant presence. I have to say, Puppy, you don't do mysteries very well. How long did it take to pry an explanation for attacking Gesakaarin-haani out of you? Nearly two weeks? We were all so tense, waiting for some grand revelation...

...and the answer is 'she was saying mean things about me'. The bit that really makes me laugh is that you indicate surprise at Tuulinen-haani getting involved as well. If you shoot someone's CEO, it's pretty much a given that you're going to be shot at by that person. 'Veiki said mean things about me! She must be an evil Gallente! Wait, another Pyre pilot shot at me! That must mean she's an evil Gallente!'

Well done, Puppy. You might want to get your logic centres checked out, they're clearly fried.

Don't leave us hanging, Kaika. It sounds as if the very fabric of reality depends on it.

... Diana's "reality", anyway.

This is your problem. I never said anything about whether or not the Gallente are capable of experiencing grief.

Read what I said again. If you really want, I could go looking for the hundreds of times that your people made it very clear that they wouldn't even care if the same thing had happened but with one of their leaders, such as your own President.

As you, yourself, have made clear, you're not upset over the loss of lives at Colelie. You're grieving because of the loss of a specific individual whom you were close to. This is completely understandable and I would not write it off, though I think you need to realize how childish it is to call for the cessation of an international alliance over that.

But to try to help you understand. Do you think the grief you feel for the loss of your friend is comparable to a wife losing her husband? I ask this seriously. I've only felt such grief twice in my life, the first time being when I was told that my husband was dead, an event that completely changed my life's Path. I've lost dear friends before as well, and those experiences didn't have the impact that losing my husband and hearing the Ray of Matar died had, and I say this as someone who was opposed to the Ray's policies when she was leading the Republic.



Yes, we did. There's no denying that and I have made no attempt to deny that. The difference is, we did not attack our ally to punish them for the crimes of that one man. We attacked as part of an attempt to bring that one man back to our territory so that we could punish him, and him alone, for his crimes. Ms. Akahoshi, on the other hand, is calling for the punishment of an entire nation for what she has stated are the "crimes of one man."



Perhaps this is because I'm not trying to make a case to justify or pardon our actions, but rather attempting to show Ms. Akahoshi that she is taking something that has already escalated further than it ever should have and attempting to escalate it even further on a premise that runs counter to the philosophy behind her anger.



Shakor and his cronies. Shakor is the Sanmatar, yes, but there is more to our government than simply "Shakor and his cronies." Regardless, while Shakor did remove Midular from her position in the previous governmental body, she was still a Tribal Chief and the Ray of Matar. Believing her not to be the appropriate leader for the entirety of the Republic does not mean he is oblivious to the significance of her being a Ray of Matar, nor that he would be any less outraged and grieved by her death, especially at the hands of a citizen of the Federation.

That said, I am not personally privy to Shakor's motives and cannot speak definitively on them. If Ms. Akahoshi wants to demand to know what his motives were and if they do not satisfy her and she decides she wants to call for him to be punished for the decision, that is up to her. However, as it stands, she is still calling for the punishment of an entire nation for what she calls the crimes of one man.



Ideology played a large part in what happened, Ms. Gesakaarin. Our ideology versus Federation ideology. Think what you will of the ideologies involved, but they were no less significant in the matter at hand.

Different things elicit differing amounts of emotion. This is a simple fact. I am grieved when crewmen aboard one of my ships die. I am grieved when a clan member dies. I was grieved when my husband died. Each of these elicits different levels of grief.

You grieve for your friend. I understand that completely. I understand you're angry that your friend died in an event you feel should never have happened. But if you really expect us to believe that your one friend was as important to you as the Ray of Matar was to our people, especially to the Sebiestor, then you simply prove that you do not understand her importance to us.

And, while I do not believe you incapable of grieving to the extent we have grieved for Midular, I do question whether or not you're capable of considering someone important enough to warrant that level of grief.



Should I remind you of the responses we got from Federals in regards to our grief over the loss of Midular? "She's just one person" was the most common. "She was just a politician" was another common one.



There's a major flaw in your reasoning, Morwen. The Federation has treated us as a child as their default behavior all along, not as a response to "child-like behavior."



And here I thought we were past this misconception. No attempts have been made to justify Colelie, at least not by those of us in the Republic. Ms. Akahoshi, however, seems to be trying to justify it, though, by attempting to justify the principle of lashing out at those who have caused you grief by calling for the punishment of an entire nation over what she herself has declared to be the crimes of one man.

I will respect your opinion here and merely state that I'm deeply cynical, for reasons espoused by a number of people here. I disagree with you, but as I've said, you have your opinion and you've consistently stuck to it, so kudos for that.

I will, however, reraise the point that the Republic has done absolutely nothing in the aftermath. Refusing to allow the Federation to attend the funeral of Midular in an official capacity... that's a grey area, so I won't discuss that, but Broteau was offered as an olive branch. Several people have pointed out that extraditing the man was deeply dubious by Gallente law, so this was not a small thing.

The Republic in general and Shakor in particular have done absolutely nothing in return, not even some consideration for those who died at Colelie. If that's still grief being acted upon, then it's spiteful and - that dreaded word - childish. If it's just an arrogant assumption that nothing needs to be done... well, that's just as bad in its own way.

*Makes sure that his next clone is NOT from Kabuki TransSolar*

See, that's what happens when you use biomass for cloning from mulched mama Slaver Hounds, you get Kim...