Intergalactic Summit

That may be true, but it doesn't appear that the Caldari State actually know what benefits the Caldari State. Letting a madman and his thugs almost drive the country into the ground for five years certainly doesn't serve the interest of the State. From destroying the meritocracy to starting wars you can't win, letting Heth run your country was a horrible idea.

I certainly do not claim to be an expert on what benefits the Caldari State, but anyone with a pulse can see what doesn't.



Which explains why you have allied with a larger empire who's only goal is to conquer and enslave all "inferior" races. If you did not have an alliance with the Amarr, the alternative result in you being a little more sympathetic towards the Minmatar.



If your armed forces are so powerful then why do you no longer hold your home world? A lot of good that technology did for you too.



So you claim that you are above being the playthings of larger empires while openly acknowledging that you will whore yourselves out to whoever waves the most isk at you?

That's awfully Gallentean of you.

Nothing wrong with doing business of course, I am a fervent capitalist myself (though I do have morals and standards in business) however I find your previous statement contradicts this one.




Shakor's Jovian "connections" have never been verified. He's creating a legend for himself before he even becomes a legend. That's the stuff of dictators, not the leader of a Republic.

I believe that I'm more of a Caldari representative than Diana Kim. I may not agree with my kirjuunet on every subject, but she is, not to put too fine a point on it, an out-of-control psychotic traitor gripped by a fanatical totalitarian fantasy that is the antithesis of the guiding principles of Caldari society.

The difference between Kim and Laerise is that while what Laerise says is, indeed, lunacy, it at least accurately reflects the official Imperial stance and dogma, which is itself lunatic.



Umm.... yes. It is. Historically has been, in fact.





Do you rehearse contradicting yourself, or is it a reflex?

If every last possible life and every last token of treasure have been consumed then there is, by definition, nobody left to sell to and nothing left for them to pay with.

In a Republic the people vote for representatives. These representatives then elect a leader and make decisions for the people. Fitting to their title, representatives represent the opinions and beliefs of the people who elected them. Power is usually evenly distributed.

In a dictatorship, one person seizes all power in the government. Sometimes this is done peacefully with people actually electing a dictator, and other times the dictator takes power by force. Once in a while a dictator can actually do a good job and rule properly. Most of the time, the power goes to their heads and they do all sorts of horrible things.

I thought Amarrians had a high standard of education, this is grade school stuff!

Verin has been practically the model Caldari citizen for longer than you've had your pilot's license. He is wise, diligent, honest, reasonable, decisive, intelligent, diplomatic, relatively humble and a skilled industrialist and combat pilot. He is everything you are not, and he deserves a lot more respect than he gets, especially from the likes of you.

I thought the same about Gallente, but you apparently don't bother paying attention to actual politics, so that kind of spoils it.

Shakor was not elected. He kicked out the previous leader and dissolved the representative body, and then installed himself. There was an 'election' that doesn't really deserve the term, what with the fact that he was the only contender.

Oh, and while we're on the subject of 'power going to their heads'... see: Yulai, the invasion of the Empire and Colelie.

Dear Vikarion-baka,

Since rational debate is impossible with a thick-headed, xenophobic, ignorant, parochial sociopath like yourself, I'll simply use Captain Rella's shorthand rejoinder: A.

Actually I'm not sure that Verin is a citizen any longer, he's been working outside the State for so long, and has worked with organisations that have worked directly against the State in the past.

No, he might be a good example of a Caldari capsuleer, but he isn't a model Caldari Citizen. I'm sure he'll agree.

We aren't having a debate. I'm telling you how you are wrong. You don't actually have anything to argue with. You just fail to understand what the State is, and who the Caldari are.

I'm sure that I'm not regarded as a model Caldari citizen by many of my countrymen, let's put it that way.



I joined ReAw as it was in the process of leaving EM. This means that I was, technically and briefly, a member of that alliance, yes. At the time, however, EM was not a member of the TLF and thus at no point was I a member of an entity which was actively involved in hostilities against the State. EM's attitude towards the Caldari was decidedly chilly, and the reception I received was positively arctic at first, but I like to think their stance may have thawed slightly in recent months, and I flatter myself to believe that if it has, I may be in some small way responsible.

I should point out that Silver Night, now co-founder and co-owner of Toin-Night Research, was a member of ReAw for much longer than I, and spent much longer in EM as a result. Oddly enough, it turns out that membership of EM during that particular era of its operation wasn't incompatible with being a Caldari loyalist. I'd even argue that it still wouldn't be today, if not for their militia activity.

The Veto interlude was the product of a very foolish decision made in the grip of an episode of psychiatric disturbance. I am very grateful to them, and to Ethan Verone and Kyoko Sakoda in particular, for catching me before I did something irreversibly stupid, putting up with me for a while until I got myself sorted out, and advising me according to my best interests rather than those of Veto. or of the Guristas. I consider them to be true friends, even if I don't really know where Verone's got to of late. It took a lot of hard work and legal expenses to smooth the whole thing over, but suffice it to say that I came out of that experience and went on to not only repair, but improve my official standing with the State.

That's the metric I work off, and no other. Meaning no offense to my kirjuunen, but I'll take the dispassionate metrics of the CEP's pilot standings tracking system over the impassioned and often unreliable opinions of countrymen with whom I have deep political disagreements.

Whatever individuals may think of me, the State continues to hold me in excellent standing, and among the State's organisations, the ones that trust me the most are the Navy, the Home Guard and the State Protectorate.

I am held in similarly high regard by the Federation Navy and the Brutor Tribe. Make what you will of that information.

I have made a point of forming my opinion on Verin Hakatain without simply reading his corporate dossier. He doesn't fly for one of the Okusaiken and that makes him a borderline outsider. He has symapthies for Jaijii that mark him as being somewhat peculiar.

Nonetheless I regard him as a... perhaps the word mentor is appropriate? I'm not sure? I don't always agree with him but I always listen to him. His wife is one of my kirjuun and a very pleasant individual. Normally I wouldn't talk about it in such detail, but it was beginning to sound as if people thought I was being disrespectful of him.