Intergalactic Summit

If everyone was rational, you wouldn't have as much fun poking brains. My goodness, you're a Sebiestor! Speaking of Sebiestor and brains, Valerie, darling, this is perfect. You can study her noodles while she studies yours!

The murder of crows in my own noodles tell me Feythabolis must fall. Er... unless it's already fallen. I do not presently have a map. Although I suppose a year from now would work just as well, and taking a deep breath in the present is probably good for the morale and well-being of all concerned.

Shouldn't you limit yourself to speaking on matters which you're actually qualified and/or experienced regarding?

So, I can't build my summer home there?

You are reinforcing Tuulinen's question quite handily.

I'm a Federation citizen, an adjunct professor at UC in the Poli Sci department, teaching at Republic University for a year.
Just curious, you think that the Fed/State diplomatic situation is 'good' and that there can be an arrangement regarding Caldari sovereignty of Caldari Prime?
And where did you get the idea there is not free speech in the Republic? Not that there's a Minmatar Republic anymore, though.

Huh. That is an interesting point. Under the new regime, does each Tribe uphold the personal rights of all Matari, or only of the Tribe? If a Brutor yells fire in a Thukker theater on Matari Uno, whose definition of protected speech prevails?

As I understand it from that corporation of transplanted Sabik corpse thieves, if someone dies as a result of this speech (expression that would be unprotected throughout a civilized empire), "blood jurisdiction" kicks in and the Brutor would be handed over to the Tribe of the victim. If there were victims from multiple Tribes, then based upon Tribal precedent with regard to Midular's assassin, pieces of the Brutor would be turned over to each Tribe. If a "follow the harm" rationale prevailed in Matari justice (I realize there are at least two oxymorons in the preceding), then it would seem likely that Matari only have personal rights derived their own Tribe.

Of course, if it were later determined that the wrong Brutor had been divided up, say after Federation audio specialists determined that the voice could not have been his, well, that would make for a bit of a "blood jurisdiction fail cascade," wouldn't it?

I have some vague memory of a play from an ancient race of nude sunbathers that called down the goddess of wisdom in battle to explain why blood jurisdiction was foolish, largely for the fail cascade reason. Apparently every civilization in our Cluster learned that lesson except... one.

If you're referring to Home, then the same could be said for the Minmatar and Matari. Give it back to the Empire and all's well, right? If you're referring to the war zones, I'm not alone in saying I wouldn't mind putting that conflict to bed and moving on. Frankly, I have to agree with Pieter regarding your expertise on the matter... It's one thing to preach to a classroom, another to live it, especially on our end. Were the roles reversed, I suspect you might understand far more clearly, ma'am. If you actually want to experience capsuleer politics, grab a frigate, the stars await, and the perspective is far better, I promise you.

As for the matter of acceptance of the current treaty, far more can be lost than gained by breaking it. What proof do you offer to support your view that it is not going go be accepted as a solution by the citizenry of the Federation?

With all due respect, Doctor, so long as the Federation maintains a claim to Home it SHOULDN'T feel safe. And I am quite comfortable that they do not.

We are many things, but not that. Never that.

If the Caldari did not want to lose Caldari Prime, they could have started by not breaking the Federal Charter. They could have decided not to let megacorps take power. The 'big eight' have been breaking treaties and agreements for centuries, why should anyone expect them to honor the current arrangement?

Tell me Ms. Gridherst. Does it say in the Federal Charter that a member, even a signatory member, is barred from leaving that agreement if they so chose? and our Ancestors decision to place their trust in the Okusaikas rather than in the Federal Senate is irrelevant.

I am intrigued, however, on the number of treaties the Okusaikas have been allegedly breaking for years. Care to list them for me?