Intergalactic Summit

Aw c'mon, who doesn't like a little bit of 'Death to the Federation' now and then?

AKA, the Minmatar.

You had me kinda' grudgingly agreeing with your assessment up till the "Intaki Heath" bit. Nobody needs a Tibus Heath of any nationality.

Actually, it is they who should support us, because it is us, who wages war against the Federation already. When the Federation will be destroyed, our both Luminaire and Intaki home systems will be liberated from gallentean occupants and without federal charter gallenteans won't have reasons anymore to attack our planets.

As far as I understand, the Federation forbids settlement of planets by Federal Intakis, while the Syndicate itself doesn't depend on the Federation itself and can do whatever it wishes without asking Federal permissions. That's why Federal Intakis have just one planet, and Syndicate who has way less population has settled the whole region.

As far as I understand it, Silphy En'Diabel is more interested by her titles and possessions than in engaging in uncertain endeavours planetside at the cost of alienating the Federation (especialy the Roden/Blaque government), as well as her own citizens that seem to show ironically sympathy to the Federation plight in the proxy war.

I really do not see her fool enough to do the same mistake her predecessors did. She may be elected for life, but she can also perfectly be deposed.

By "Federal Puppet" I'll assume you mean it being a proxy state, for which the answer is both yes and no. The essence of it is that, while the Syndicate is in terms of general policy opposed to the Federation - Obviously, since it was founded by a group explicitly exiled from it - And it isn't controlled by it directly, it also exists largely at it's mercy. That is to say, it is so massively inferior in terms of military power that the Federation could essentially go in and destroy it on a whim, and so it must more or less conform to it's demands. It doesn't have a choice.

When the Gallente exiled the Intaki who supported the Caldari during the war, what they essentially said to them was, "We don't want you here, but we don't want you setting up your own nation, either. If you do that, we'll come and blow you up." And since the original group of exiles was less than a million in number and not equipped to object, well... That original sentence has more or less framed things since. At the time, I would imagine the Federal government assumed the exiles would simply disperse into the frontier and integrate elsewhere, a presumption that makes their handling of the situation seem relatively sensible, but. Obviously, that hasn't happened, leading to the rather odd current status quo.

Thus, the nation exists in a weird grey area where it's an enemy of the Federation, but also effectively a quasi-independent territory of it at the same time.

What miss Farel says is also true, though. Many people in the Syndicate have come to relate to the Federation due to the links they have to it in economic and cultural terms now that the cause their forefathers took up (that is, support of the Caldari) has fallen so far into the past. So even if the government itself is nominally anti-Federation, the opposite sentiment has begun to grow in the body politic.

Depending on ones perspective, I suppose you could call that either the natural and healthy result of the slow forgiveness and reintergration of a prodigal group, or some sort of bizzare nation-wide breed of stockholm syndrome.

Such a shame when reality doesn't fit ideology.

Comrade Kim, the Intaki Syndicate are no puppets or proxy state for the Federation, no matter what Gallente nationalists or liberals may tell you.

Federation navy ships entering the Syndicate will be attacked by the Intaki Syndicate. Intaki Syndicate have stong hatred for the Federation. They are certainly not under the Federation jack boot..

You people hate Roden so badly because he's the epitome of a successful Caldari leader. He just isn't Caldari.