Intergalactic Summit

Mr. Kinnison, I too believe that reducing dependance on foreigners would be best, however your suggestion of replacing aide with loans is of little help. The best course of action is for us, as Matari, to reduce the need for aide ourselves. We need to improve our economy, and in turn improve the Republic's infrastructure. That is the only true path to prosperity.

I agree.

I was exaggerating somewhat in response to those of your compatriots that were romanticising a relationship with the Caldari whilst sneering at the Federation. As if the State would not ensure that relationship was extremely profitable to them and that a group of mega-corporations who despise weakness would not ensure that the current plight of the Republic was exploited to great advantage.

The purpose of our aid is of course to enable the Republic to stabilise and develop its own institutions and become a responsible partner within the cluster. Of course we have self-interest in this, but it also costs us in other ways, i.e. in purely pragmatic terms. A trade-off that the State would be unlikely to consider.

It is my hope that any friendship between the State and the Republic be born out of equal partnership and respect, and the best way to achieve this friendship, I think, is through trade and business.

It warms my heart to see the discourse here, passions may flare, but that is only because being Minmatar is close to our hearts.

The official position of Khushakor clan is that first and foremost all Minmatar are our people, but we focus beyond anything in helping our people who are citizens of the Republic and in good standing with the tribes. This doesn't mean we don't see that enslaved Vherokior, mumbling prayers to the Amarrian God in a mining colony on Ordion II as important, merely from a pragmatic standpoint, those within our tribal structure have the most to offer to the rest of us. Eventually, we would like all of our people to be free, and once freed of certain dangerous influences and properly informed, able to make choices on if they want to support their tribe properly or leave to whatever ends they seek.

What we don't want to do, is get involved in a situation, where we see our brothers and sisters in chains, and worry more about freeing them than ensuring the strength of our future generations. This means we need to fight for our own, but we also need to be pragmatic and know what is best for us going forward, the Republic and the Empire will both be around for a long time, so we need to take the long view on this.

I recommend listening to your kin Svetlana.

At the current time, the Amarr offer the Caldari a much more formidable ally in both military strength and economic power. To make peace with the republic would likely cost them this mutually profitable arrangement for a weaker and less stable ally. If you want their help, you'll need to offer something the Amarr cannot.

Putting that aside, your conviction is admirable. I look forward to seeing how it plays out.

I would hazard a guess that the State and its corporations make a decent margin on their alliance with Amarr.

It's about time someone tried to bridge this gap again. The previous attempts have seemed to find little traction, and that is a shame.

As far as your other activities, though, know that Akheteru Integrated Astrometrics offers any Khushakor pilot a 10% discount on any Synthetic or Standard combat booster purchase over 10 million ISK.

Enkil sends his regards.

A venturesome vision, cousin of the Khushakor.

Though my days here number lean, Mivora's indwellers do belie the mandate of enmity between the Tribes and Caldari citizens, and do so present more oft than not as kith in way of thinkin'. Mayhap the Council might see fit to cast words this way of colloquy, and afore long let the truck of two distant peoples show the path to better bargain.

If your Clan marks such a path, may then the ancestors bless.