Intergalactic Summit

If they wanted freedom from the federation, wouldn't an Intaki fire the first shots? Yes there's the ILF but why would they need an outside force to inspire them? If they do need an outside force to motivate and lead them, do they really deserve the end goal? I guess I don't know why your sturring the pot when you don't seem to have any link to them aside from idealism...

I always find it kinda funny when people claim that other people are 'under the thumb' of the Federation..

That's Kims's job....

Before I start with my position in this matter, I would like to inquire which corporation within the GMVA it was that fired on the ILF recently. I cannot speak for the GMVA as a whole, but as a member of a founding corporation, this issue is of interest to us, and a matter that may bear internal discussion. This last year have brought about a significant number of changes both within the ILF and within the Accords, so to assume diplomacy is an inert thing is to ignore progress and potential failures at once. Please let me know here or via NeoCom and I will escalate if they are still with us. To be clear, there are no formal agreements yet in place, but that is not necessarily where diplomacy starts.


But with regards to Intaki's situation as it stands:

Intaki's liberation is a good deal more complicated than "Us" letting them be "Free". In fact, if we were to cut them loose tomorrow, we would be under significant fire for the subsequent fallout.

Can we roll out a program that might eventually allow Intaki to operate with increased autonomy within the Federal systems? I think this is not an impossible ideal for people keen on seeing Intaki's situation to improve, and is not even unheard of.

Before anything else, however - CONCORD must raise Intaki's sec status. This was promised to them, and as a founding member of the Federation, anything else is an embarrassment. I think you will find no one in contest with this. If there is any one thing to campaign government and CONCORD for as a first step - or by contrast, your last step - it is this, now that the vote has been returned this year, correcting one shame among many.

Secondarily, full autonomy for any subsection of any of our smaller units, be it a Family, Clan, Corporation or Intaki and its peoples, is to doom them to the fate of who ever decides to roll into their system next. Full autonomy is not possible for any cultural or organizational group at this time within the Four Empires.

Among the cries to Free Intaki, which has been reduced to a manipulative buzzword you can find on t-shirts, I do not hear many practical plans for what to do with Intaki once it is "free". To think it would be any freer under Caldari control by comparison to me shows a misunderstanding of the way either of our Empires work. There is a reason that Intaki feels so resolutely neutral when they could call on the Nationalistic might of either side if they so chose. They have not chosen, and in so doing are exercising their dissatisfaction with our offers.

The continuing strength of the Intaki people not to call on the Empires they could leverage, but instead choosing to forge their own path in the face of adversity speaks leagues about how much moral bolstering they require. The Intaki are strong, Capsuleer and baseliner government alike, and the help they require is squarely in the Federation's hands regarding technical matters, which I agree and implore should be back on the table for re-evaluation. It should not stop with the return of the vote, which was - as far as I'm concerned - an illegal breach of policy in the first place.

Especially now with the Drifter threat distracting every resource available to Empire security, what can be done? The suffering of any people does not stop because we are at some further risk. Where are the most extra available resources? It's us. Who is investigating the sleeper threat? It's us, with money, time, and lives to burn.

What every Capsuleer can do today, tomorrow, is stop when passing through Intaki and its sister systems, and sweep it of the rats and wanted Capsuleers that plague the constellation due to its unfortunate CONCORD assignment. This is a fully plausible action that legal Capsuleers can actively participate in, for the improvement of, if not its security on paper, the security and prosperity of the people who live there. The ILF and the IPI work diligently to create a viable market hub in this area. Stop there, buy equipment, chase out the pirates, and it won't matter that CONCORD won't step in. This is something every one of us can do. --Including the less than legal types among us, to be honest.

If you feel that Intaki has been wronged, as a Loyalist, as a Caldari, as a third party, as a pirate; then help Intaki prosper, help it be safe. We in low-sec do not need CONCORD's motherly protection. The people who live here are not waiting for CONCORD to arrive. The raising of Intaki's status is ultimately symbolic, and fundamentally important historically, but not the reality. Intaki needs trade and security. All us Capsuleers do is 'trade' and 'security'.

Do not think to join the State to preserve your way of life - it is of no value to us. We're having enough problems with the Achuran question without having another completely different culture trying to integrate while remaining separate.

If the Intaki were to achieve independence on their own terms then we would likely be interested in you as an Ally or trading partner, but membership in the State really suggests a desire to integrate into our society and I doubt the Intaki wish that.

Make the glass ceiling so low that a person can't rise through his or her own capabilities and you have slavery in all but the word. That's what I've seen on Intaki. That's what was offered to the colonies of Black Rise by the Federation occupation. That's what they offer for Caldari Prime.

The Federation definition of "freedom" is lip-service to keep a very small network in control. Anything that challenges that control gets wiped out. Look at the last election. Look at Black Rise. Look at Reschard! If the Federation can't have the pretty toy, then they try to break it so no one else can.

If the greater portion of Intaki are happy under the Federation, then why indeed did they choose a low sec rating? Again, why the ties with the Syndicate, the State, the Legion and pretty much anyone that isn't the Federation?

I have to agree that full entry into the State might not be the best move. But then, there are more corporations than Ishukone in the State that are capable of offering assistance to protect a politically free, neutral Intaki.

I don't recall any laws being passed that require the Intaki people to engage in the war.

Show your work?

I'm Intaki, I don't feel punished, I don't feel oppressed, I'm not forced to fight in any war.

I believe in freedom of speech, assembly, religion, sexuality and many others.

Tell me, what kind of positive or negative freedoms would I gain, as an Intaki, from being 'liberated' by the State or any other entity?

There weren't any laws in my first colony that said I had to be a part of the war. But when the Fed ships landed, we were in the war.

Isn't everyone?



Freed from "the GRASP!" he says, of that wicked Gallentean Federation, which prides itself on such abhorrent things like individual liberty!

They must be "liberated!" from our slimy touches.



Where o' where did I leave my Intaki servants last night? I swear when I find them their punishment will be harsh, off to the secret Black Eagle asteroid mining camps with them!