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Dual sovereignty for Luminaire solar system Gallente/Caldari

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Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#21 - 2014-03-10 10:24:41 UTC
Derek Quaid wrote:
We don't exactly have a sterling record of keeping our agreements with the Gallente. I'm surprised they're being as gracious as they are now that they don't have to be (under threat of the Leviathan). Probably not brilliant to test the limits of their hospitality.

'Hospitality'?!
After they crashed their supercarriers into our stations?
After they defaced ancient relics on Caldari Prime?
After they bombed our planet?
After they occupied it... twice?
After they attacked our titan on low orbit of our planet to crashland it?

Just blast these gallenteans out from our planet, burn every one of them and rain down their burnt bodies from orbit to villore or gallente prime!

That sort of 'hospitality' they deserve.

Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.

Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#22 - 2014-03-10 10:26:21 UTC
Noden Vorpalstar wrote:
I can certainly appreciate for the time being the need for a Dual Sovereignty agreement on Caldari Prime, especially in regards to the non-capsuleer population living on the planet.

Suggestions however, of making the entire Luminaire system fall under dual sovereignty are ludicrous at best, and such ideas should not even be entertained. Dual Sovereignty over the entire system would only be an open invitation to extremists and create a powder keg of a situation.

The Federation Navy's responsibility in the system is to protect the sovereignty of The Federation, it's assets, travelers who are not hostile, and to enforce the laws of the Federation.

As Mr. Ixiris has already pointed out, why should hostiles or those who harbor hostilities against The Federation be allowed safe passage in the Luminaire system?

Because this system must be under our control, not kakku.

Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.

Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#23 - 2014-03-10 10:34:20 UTC
TomHorn wrote:
Quote:
I mean, let's just clarify something here, Horn - your suggestion won't ever be implemented. Let's just take a moment to acknowledge that fact, alright? It's not going to happen.


If this injustice in the solar system by the Federation navy on Caldari will not be resolved. The families who have lost loved ones will turn to the Caldari resistance fighter on the ground for justice. Bombings of Gallente areas and shooting of Gallente citizens.

The treaty is destined to fail. Its bad treaty for the Caldari as it stands now. A treaty that may have the black hand of Caldari traitors on it. Let it fail. Have a nice day Andreus.

This Andreus is just a deluded gallentean kid. There is no even real reason to argue with him. Just blast him on sight, if he will dare to undock, and deal with it. He won't say anything worth anyway.

And I agree with you, that this "treaty" is insulting and a borderline treason against Caldari people. We should have never let gallenteans do it, and just blast the heck them out from the system. Burn whole gallente prime, if it will be necessary, but we shouldn't let them dictate us what to do with our planets.

Let those, who signed this treaty, always have their names covered in shame!

Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.

Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#24 - 2014-03-10 10:39:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Stitcher
Diana Kim wrote:
TomHorn wrote:

I dont know why you would be against a solution that prevents the deaths of Caldari citizens by the Federation navy, when they visit the homeworld.

Mr. Stitcher is a traitor, he would prefer to spill blood of Caldari, instead of spilling blood of gallenteans.


Why shoot anybody, if you can avoid it? The range of goods and services you can sell to a dead person is decidedly limited.

Capsuleers notwithstanding. the nice thing about killing a capsuleer is that you can then sell them their replacement ship.

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders

Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#25 - 2014-03-10 10:46:02 UTC
Stitcher wrote:
Diana Kim wrote:
TomHorn wrote:

I dont know why you would be against a solution that prevents the deaths of Caldari citizens by the Federation navy, when they visit the homeworld.

Mr. Stitcher is a traitor, he would prefer to spill blood of Caldari, instead of spilling blood of gallenteans.


Why shoot anybody, if you can avoid it? The range of goods and services you can sell to a dead person is decidedly limited.

Capsuleers notwithstanding. the nice thing about killing a capsuleer is that you can then sell them their replacement ship.

You did attacked loyal Caldari patriots in the Haatomo solar system, many of them weren't capsuleers. Besides, by destroying capsuleer ship you destroy most of ship crew as well.

Or maybe you would like to deny it now?

Oh, and killing capsuleer is way harder that destroying a ship, you need rather good scanres to catch the pod, or very timely activation of smartbombs...

Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.

Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#26 - 2014-03-10 11:05:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Stitcher
I'd be laughing if you didn't depress me so much.

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders

Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#27 - 2014-03-10 11:43:08 UTC
I've always found talking to Provists just a little bit off-putting, because even when they talk to you it never feels like they're actually holding a conversation with you. Their responses never seem to line up with what you actually say so much as they seem to be retorts to an imaginary statement that just so happens to contain whatever combination of words allow them to make whatever point they seemed to want to make. I mean, Provists aren't the only ones who exhibit this unsettling condition by a long shot (it's particularly common among Sani Sabik and EoM cultists, for instance) but they do seem to be the most obvious about it. Sometimes you'll bring up a factor that entirely obviates the point they were trying to make, and they'll just keep trying to make the same point as if they simply can't process the information. Observe Horn's continued insistance that Caldari citizens are being randomly targetted by the Federal Navy in Luminaire when nothing of the sort is happening - he continues to insist that they're dying in droves when this is quite demonstrably not the case.

Say what you like about the validity of Amarrian arguments, if you confront them with conflicting evidence they'll at least acknowledge that you brought it up, even if it won't change their minds.

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.

Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#28 - 2014-03-10 13:17:02 UTC
Stitcher wrote:
I'd be laughing if you didn't depress me so much.

You see, there is a thing about words, Mr. Stitcher. They pass as they come.
But our actions and their consequences remain forever.

Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.

TomHorn
Horn Brothers Holdings Inc.
#29 - 2014-03-10 13:25:29 UTC  |  Edited by: TomHorn
Im my first statement i said Caldari citizens who had bad security status with the Federation are being attacked by the Federation navy in the Luminaire solar system. This is not acceptable anymore. Wether we have good or bad standing within the Federation Caldari citizens need to be protected from the Federation navy ,when travelling in the Luminaire solar system. In most cases travelling to and from our homeworld. Yes Caldari are hostile to the Gallente and vice versa. Gallente on the homeworld are hostile to our population there. We have guaranteed their safety , should we not be afforded the same guarantee when travelling in the solar system. Dual sov in the solar system like dual sov on the planet would make this possible.

Your constant denials that the Federation navy are not killing Caldari travelling to and from the homeworld in the solar system are so incredulous. Do you think this killing is likely to help a long and lasting peace on the homeworld Andreus.

It is attitudes like yours through the ages Andreus where the Caldari nationalist have learnt the futility of diplomacy when dealing with the Gallente as opposed to the effectiveness of guns.
Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#30 - 2014-03-10 13:50:49 UTC
There is a problem about gallente: they always try to hurt Caldari citizens one way or another. Just analyze their attacks:
- bombing of a planet
- ramming station
- defacing Caldari relics
- civil unrest of gallente population in Caldari Prime, that actually started the war
- downing titan on inhabited planet...
All these attacks were directed at Caldari peoples or Caldari culture, not at proper Caldari military installations.
And that's why control over Luminaire shouldn't stay in gallentean hands.

Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.

Anabella Rella
Gradient
Electus Matari
#31 - 2014-03-10 14:46:06 UTC
Not only no but, hell no. Others have already pointed out why this is a nonsensical and bad idea so, I won't belabor the point.

On another note, why should anyone take anything you say seriously on matters of peace or diplomacy Pilot Horn? Your support for the Provists and radical imperials automatically make your motives suspect.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#32 - 2014-03-10 14:49:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Stitcher
Can we at least congratulate the man for not compounding his crimes against intelligence by calling for "duel" sovereignty? Although that would be, let's face it, a pretty apt summation of the situation as it stands.

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders

Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#33 - 2014-03-10 14:55:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Andreus Ixiris
My point about you quite evidently not replying to the statements that were actually made but to an imaginary series of statements that allows you to make whatever point you wish to make has never been demonstrated better than by this post.

Firstly: your couching of this statement was deeply deceptive, as it attempts to imply that Caldari citizens other than capsuleers are being attacked by the Federal Navy, which is absolutely not the case. Only capsuleers are being attacked, and of capsuleers only those with severely negative Federation standings attempting to operate in Federation space.

Secondly: It is absolutely acceptable for a sovereign nation to defend itself from those who have in the past - and in your case, continue - to act directly hostile to its interests. The Federation most certainly has a right to defend itself.

Thirdly: Stop couching your personal problems as problems that a majority of Caldari are suffering from. No non-capsuleer Caldari citizen has anything to fear from the Federal Navy as long as they aren't onboard a warship operating in Federation space without Federal approval. Loyal Caldari capsuleer citizens such as Verin Haktain - who, it should be noted, do not have a notably negative standing with the Federation - can travel in Luminaire without any trouble. Those capsuleer citizens of the State who are members of the militia but not intentionally disingenuous Provist stooges - say, Pieter Tuulinen, Veikitamo Gesakaarin, etc. etc. - cannot enter high-security Federation space without being targetted by Naval forces but also aren't stupid enough to complain about it when they are.

I've stated before how you might go about visiting the Luminaire system without risk - drop your association with the State Protectorate, repair your damaged standing with the Federation and visit to your heart's desire. If you can't put in the effort to follow these simple instructions, it is not the Senate's duty to make life easier for you.

TomHorn wrote:
Dual sov in the solar system like dual sov on the planet would make this possible.

No, what it would do is give the State something that, as previously stated at great length, it is not and has never been entitled to. There is no problem that exists outside of your self-obsessed imagination that granting the State dual sovereignty in Luminaire would fix. Your allegience and past actions have caused you inconvenience and now you want the Federation to establish a very, very dangerous precedent by ceding control of one of its core systems to a foreign power.

We all know that in a year you'd just make a new thread complaining about how you always get shot at by the Federation Navy when you fly through Algogille when you go to visit Luminaire, so oops, better give Caldari State dual-sov in that system, too!

TomHorn wrote:
It is attitudes like yours through the ages Andreus where the Caldari nationalist have learnt the futility of diplomacy when dealing with the Gallente as opposed to the effectiveness of guns.

Please have the decency not to associate yourself with legitimate Caldari nationalists. You forefitted that right when you continued to support a terrorist organisation and the traitor who nearly ruined the State. Likewise, statements about the - ahem - "futility of diplomacy" are painfully ironic coming from you.

Incidentally, my attitude has nothing to do with the Senate's decision, and in any case, it's immaterial - I'm not stating an opinion, I'm stating a fact. Dual-sovereignty will not happen in Luminaire. Not ever. I don't need to make assumptions or educated guesses - this idea is preposterous, no senator would suggest it, the CEP wouldn't suggest it and even if the motion was tabled it'd get shot down by the Senate faster than an honour-tanked Hulk in B-R.

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.

Desiderya
Blue Canary
Watch This
#34 - 2014-03-10 15:46:27 UTC
Stitcher wrote:
Meanwhile, those of us who HAVEN'T spent months on end making bitter enemies of the Federation are free to pass unimpeded.


Phrasing it like this makes it sound so easy, but I fear sitting on our collective asses while trying to appease a hostile entity is not quite as acceptable for everyone as as you may think.
The majority of the other points raised seem to align with common sense and clash entirely by virtue of this, unsurprisingly, with the viewpoints of two certain specimen getting entertained in this forum.



Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise.

Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#35 - 2014-03-10 15:59:53 UTC
Stitcher wrote:
Can we at least congratulate the man

No.

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.

Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#36 - 2014-03-10 16:03:21 UTC
Desiderya wrote:
Stitcher wrote:
Meanwhile, those of us who HAVEN'T spent months on end making bitter enemies of the Federation are free to pass unimpeded.


Phrasing it like this makes it sound so easy, but I fear sitting on our collective asses while trying to appease a hostile entity is not quite as acceptable for everyone as as you may think.


I intended neither criticism nor insult. We disagree on the severity and extent of the hostility involved, but I'm not about to spit on good Caldari for heeding the call to arms, even if I think that call is for a wasteful and needless war that we should have begun negotiating a ceasefire to the instant we dropped the Provists.

If the militia war is a disease gnawing at the State, then pilots such as yourself are leukocytes - valuable, wonderful beings who protect us and keep us alive, but as anybody with a little medical knowledge knows, it's not the virus itself that causes the fever - it's the immune response. Left to its own devices, unchecked and unopposed, a virus would unravel you, cell by cell and protein by protein. But the body's immune response can kill as well - raised core temperature, dehydration, swelling, all of these things are also fatal, and all of them are caused by the leukocytes working hard to protect the very body they're killing in their eagerness.

Unlike a leukocyte, you have reason and the ability to think. So I'd respectfully ask that you use that faculty to try and understand why I might occasionally speak with a critical tone about some defenders of the State. It's not because I think they are doing wrong - it's because I think they are doing right a little too vigorously, which means they jeopardize the very peace that they should be viewing it as their duty to secure.

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders

Desiderya
Blue Canary
Watch This
#37 - 2014-03-10 17:18:28 UTC
.... or you can see it as proving grounds, where the weak are bound to fail. Managing a controlled state of mobilization and units collecting combat experience is beneficial to the overall health of the armed forces, without the majority of the costs, such as attrition, an all-out war demands.

Regarding your choice of words regarding some, I'd like to point out that it is not possible to purge provists out of capsuleer ranks, and I'm quite positive that there's a distinction between those and other who see themselves as defenders, or more astutely, weapons of the State.

Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise.

Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#38 - 2014-03-10 17:39:07 UTC
Desiderya wrote:
.... or you can see it as proving grounds, where the weak are bound to fail. Managing a controlled state of mobilization and units collecting combat experience is beneficial to the overall health of the armed forces, without the majority of the costs, such as attrition, an all-out war demands.


There are non-capsule vessels deployed in the warzone, and they get blown up on quite a regular basis. What lessons are learned by the dead? None that are applicable to a warzone here in this universe, that's for sure. If you intend to work-harden a citizen into an experienced and competent veteran, you don't do it by reducing them to biomass and a sympathetic letter.

In previous generations we have used manoeuvres, training exercises and simulations to train our soldiers. Environments where failure does not destroy, but teaches.

If you're claiming that the militia war's sole redeeming quality is that it is a proving ground, then I must question what was so inadequate about the proving grounds we had before that we nowadays prefer to sell actual lives and actual hardware, not to mention foreign trade opportunities and diplomatic avenues for profit.

I can't help but suspect that it must be much cheaper to put a class of cadets through a year of accurate simulation than to replace even one Scorpion.

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders

Desiderya
Blue Canary
Watch This
#39 - 2014-03-10 18:36:48 UTC
Stitcher wrote:

There are non-capsule vessels deployed in the warzone, and they get blown up on quite a regular basis. What lessons are learned by the dead? None that are applicable to a warzone here in this universe, that's for sure. If you intend to work-harden a citizen into an experienced and competent veteran, you don't do it by reducing them to biomass and a sympathetic letter.

In previous generations we have used manoeuvres, training exercises and simulations to train our soldiers. Environments where failure does not destroy, but teaches.

If you're claiming that the militia war's sole redeeming quality is that it is a proving ground, then I must question what was so inadequate about the proving grounds we had before that we nowadays prefer to sell actual lives and actual hardware, not to mention foreign trade opportunities and diplomatic avenues for profit.

I can't help but suspect that it must be much cheaper to put a class of cadets through a year of accurate simulation than to replace even one Scorpion.


Maybe your contact with too many jaaiji has made you weak, Stitcher, or maybe you've suffered too many losses in your life and only notice the downsides. I'm not in disagreement about the value of maneuvers and simulation, and the need to keep manpower costs low, but if it's war - and the question of our sovereignity - we're talking about, not just in light of a federation ruled by its military-industrial complex, but also other external and even internal threats, we have to be willing to carry these costs.

Do question the means with which this conflict is fought over, but do not question the mission. If you're not willing to risk or sacrifice anything, you're not going to get results, as weakness only gives birth to weakness. Regarding your fondness of theoretical experience, let us keep in mind that during the time this conflict has gone cold, all this mass of training has done little to give us an edge. Now, I can't prove you otherwise, but based on my experience facing adversity and returning as a survivor beats any training. Training and drill increases the quote of those returning.

Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise.

Fredfredbug4
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#40 - 2014-03-10 19:14:46 UTC
All this thread proves is that Provist are undeniably trying to exert dominance over the Federation in a war of aggression (as if starting said war wasn't enough). You can pretend to be oppressed and targeted all you want but when literally everyone except you is content, you should start asking yourself if you're in the wrong.

Of course, that would take honor, strength, intelligence and courage to do. Things that provist and ultra-nationalistic patriots are utterly lacking in.

Your blind hatred and utter incompetence is why millions of Gallente and Caldari have perished in this war.

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