Intergalactic Summit

Whatever fault I found in the support of State Citizens for Tibus Heth I certainly expressed at the time. I don't feel the need to revisit every example of the "simple disagreements on policy" from those days.

I only hope you'll consider that it doesn't make someone a traitor that they knew Heth's true colors before you did. Consider also the price paid by those Heth deemed "traitors" for opposing him. I seem to remember you expressing shock some months back after a "riot" broke out during the audit of the Wiyrkomi Honor Guard.

Ask yourself what you trust more now, the bond you had with those you considered kirjuun, or the story fed to you by the Provist thugs in the Home Guard?

Contrary to what most affected jaijii believe, State corporate realpolitik is a subtle game played requiring both pragmatism and intelligence. A pragmatism and intelligence that leads one to not disclose ones actual thoughts and plans in public.

It's done. It's over. Heth couldn't politick and secure his position and power, thus he deserved neither.

Feel free to cling to a past most in the State no longer care for, and an experiment that failed.

I'm sure there are numerous Caldari intel assets working within the Federation government. President Roden is undoubtedly better informed about their reach and influence than I am. Any thinking person knows that two nations at war will inevitably have active espionage campaigns. We don't see Roden descending into paranoid madness and ordering freighters full of civilian protesters destroyed by the Black Eagles.

So what if Heth was right that the Gallente were spying? Clearly he was incapable of countering such espionage without resorting to barbarism. Your defense of his actions only proves you a barbarian along with him.

Which is why you'll surely support the CEP if they order Heth's execution.

The lion's share of Ni-Kunni within the Empire exist as members of the lower classes, performing mostly service sector jobs for our wealthier Amarrian neighbors. I won't pretend that we, as a whole, would be better off had we been left to our own devices - we likely would not have even figured out basic atmospheric flight yet - but only the deluded and indoctrinated can say, with any sort of straight face, that such an "uplifting" was "good" for us. What could we have become, had we been left alone? What could we have become, had say, the Caldari, or the Minmatar, or virtually *anyone* else made contact with us first? So, hmm, maybe I am defending the Caldari here, defending the desire to be left alone?

Sadly, we were not left alone, and reality is what it is. Yay! We get to be the people no one wants to live next door to and have virtually no say in our own affairs!

Within the Federation, we have much more autonomy. I was born here, I grew up here, and I am rather grateful for that. Yep, we're still the people no one wants to live next door to, but hey, at least here we are welcome to follow a different religion, speak our own language, and the like. We can be "ourselves" and we do just that. Yes, as long as we follow the rules (not saying that anyone else doesnt, now, no need for the Minmatar to get all mad and red and shouty, racism is definitely a thing here) we're welcome to be ourselves and do whatever it is we want. Cool.

The one time my people have faced any sort of organized racial sentiment during our history in the Federation was after Heth captured (or liberated, or retook, whatever) Caldari Prime. A fair number of Ni-Kunni had settled there over the years, a community he quickly had removed. I understand that whole "homeworld" idea, I really do. I am all for the Caldari's right to have their planet. My "homeworld" is in a place where I will never see it, and we, as a people, will never be able to "liberate" it. I was born on Caldari Prime, but was kicked off of it because someone who had never set foot on it claims more right to be there than "outsiders". So yeah, maybe I don't really understand it. Why couldn't we stay, exactly?

Anyway. In short, in this Ni-Kunni's opinion, we're better off here, in the Federation, than in the Empire, by far. I cant speak for everyone, everywhere, of course. I don't pretend to, I wouldn't want to.

Anyway, someone asked for a Ni-Kunni. You got one.

Well.

To be fair, we were closest, culturally, to the Minmatar.

Weird, eh?

If it is any consolation, not very many ethnic Amarrians are truly ethnic Amarrians anymore. You would have to be in a very, very conservative family to only descend from our original islander people. I know I certainly do not. As such, I would not say a Ni-kunni, or anyone else, should be discriminated against on the basis of their race. Faith makes the Empire, and those of Godly being and righteous thought deserve all the riches of His kingdom in the cluster.

I've always thought that the idea of clinging to the race of an Amarrian, rather than judging him by his faith and works, said more about the judge than the accused.

Most of the Matari people were nomadic, if memory serves me, at one point or another.

I believe my people and the Vherokior to be those who - once - had the most culturally in common, but the Thukker, Starkmanir, and Sebiestor all practiced similar overland nomadic wanderings.

The Vherokior simply did it in an environment very similar to ours. Yay for sand!

Honor the Rainmaker, indeed.

Ni-Kunnis,

You were given a great gift more than a thousand years ago.

Your progenitors understood this, although I imagine they would be sad to see you have forgotten.

In any case there are certainly plenty more desert worlds out there; if you desire to return to your roots so much I suggest you maroon yourself and start wandering the desert scraping out an existence once more.