Intergalactic Summit

I'm more talking about the popular uprising that preceded those events, Mr. Kurovassi, not the formal power shift itself.

As I understand it (since I no longer have any memory of that time), the State's megacorporate elite had become both complacent and entitled, and had begun abusing its authority over the Caldari people rather than serving subordinates' interests as well as its own.

(I've historically characterized this as Federal efforts to introduce individualism into the State misfiring-- hitting only the elites who could afford the media products that were the vector, rather than influencing the Caldari people as a whole. I'm not sure I'm wrong about this, but, again, I don't actually remember this time anymore.)

It became pretty clear that the choices for the corporations were reform or open revolt and likely revolution. The megacorporations chose reform, and survival-- and to accept a leader of the revolt as a new corporate CEO. Heth's ascension to Executor came later (also with huge popular support).

... It is pretty clear someone was financing him, of course, but it no longer seems all that hard to figure out who since we learned about his connections to the Templis Dragonaurs.

First, I never behaved like a toddler, only a troll would claim I did.
And second, if you don't like being called a liar, maybe you should consider stopping lying about others?

I mean, just try? And meanwhile if you fail to do this and cant discuss the topic instead of discussing participants of discussion, please be so kind to vacate the frequency.

"I really don't want to brag" then why are you posting that comment?

Now before you use an attack me with a phrase like "Gallente Bootlicker" or whatever you're fond of, let me say that you you incite most of the drama on this forum. The only reason you are here is to be inflammatory and derail the conversation. Ever tried not flaunting your massive ego?

No one likes you for a reason Kim. So leave. Stop harassing everyone on here.

My dearest warrior princess!
I literally have an entire wall in my mood room filled with pictures of you.
Can you help my inspiration and send me some more? Preferably in more of these sleek uniforms.

Thanks in advance.
Your
Doctor Gallento

It's Doctor Gallento, thank you very much,

Some peoples should look in mirror before calling others like that. Maybe Kim is offensive on forums, but Rella is a special pearl in that regard.

Post more, darling! More! Please! ♥

Ms. Jenneth

The attempt at revolution Tibus Heth sought was not new, the rebellion of the so-called Brothers of Freedom preceded the man, and if one read their rhetoric it was in-line with Federal and Gallentean ideology insofar as its adherence to notions of individual rights and fighting against, "Corporate tyranny".

If Tibus Heth did not have the financial backing to usurp power within Kaalakiota he would be dead and forgotten in Piak courtesy of the Home Guard.

You may believe the Megacorporations supported the man due to his, "Popular Support," However that was always going to be less important than the fact as CEO of KK he held significant clout over the largest corporation in the State and in the Home Guard the largest military outside of CalNav.

To deal with him in the same manner as the BoF, which had already cost the lives of millions in Pacification operations, would have been costly and divisive to the point of actually realizing a civil war within the State. A realization many in the Federation would have liked to see, but it is the nature of corporate leadership to have the wisdom to not play into the hands of your enemies.

That is beside the point that, as events after Haatomo showed, sometimes it is better to bide your time and allow the enemies from within to reveal themselves while offering enough rope so that they may hang themselves later.

Come on, seriously? Don't act as if you're denser than a neutron star: "Figure of speech.", go look it up. He even wanted to get rid of the megas to define what is caldari.
That aside you're acting like a prime example for all that you want sources on.

I might argue that there's an important difference between body and political allegiance.

The former is ostensibly a matter of reality, though that's less the case nowadays in the age of cloning, gene therapy and advanced surgery. If I really wanted there's no theoretical obstacle preventing me from, say, cloning into the body of a female Sebiestor. It wouldn't even be the most extreme case of body-modification I've seen.

Doing so would probably do me quite a lot of harm in terms of my mental health and of course I'd come out of it still thinking, behaving and speaking like a Civire man, but... in a purely practical sense, we are living in an age where a person's gender and apparent ethnicity are less fixed and immutable than they once were.

Besides, we're capsuleers which means we've all died and had a full-body transplant. That's about as extreme a rewriting of the objective reality as you could ask for. My clones bear my DNA because they were induced to, which makes the whole notion of "genetically pure" seem a little less substantial.

But... whatever. I'll grant you for now that Caldari ethnicity, gender identity and so on really are as carved in the stars as you say.

IS the State just about genetic purity?

The State was founded to preserve a way of life. A people, a heritage, traditions, all of which were under threat from a force that many of our people characterize as malevolent but which I've always preferred to think of as leaden-footed and obtuse. Individual citizens of the Federation have often impressed me with their intelligence, insight and sensitivity, and I've met some who (unbeknownst to them) absolutely characterized the very best Caldari ideals without meaning to. One of the finest officers I ever had the pleasure of witnessing in action was a FedNav admiral who spoke wistfully of getting back home to his husband after the op.

The Federation seen as a collective whole, however, is a big blind trampling lummox of a thing that just does what it does without particularly watching where its feet land, and the State was founded as an entirely justified attempt to escape from under its crushing paws and put up a fence to keep it at bay.

But is that all we are? I hope not, because if our entire civilization is built around not being the Federation then there's no strength of our own to fall back on.

But we demonstrably DO have strength. We have our convictions, our ideals and our objectives, and I don't see any good reason why those things should be constrained by ethnicity, sexuality or gender. If a Khanid woman, an Intaki man, or a Brutor who prefers to think of themselves as being somewhere between the two, or whoever else and whatever else they may be... If they resonate with Caldari ideals - if they want to put in the work, the effort and the sacrifice and live by the meritocratic ideals of a megacorp - then as far as I'm concerned they're Caldari in the more important sense of the word.

The ethnic, genetic and homeworld heritage side of the State is... nice, I guess. I derive comfort from te religion of my ancestors and from having that connection to a place and a history, but nobody could ever accuse Caldari society of being built for the comfort of the people living in it. I am proud to be Caldari in that sense, but the State that I love and work for in my own way is an ideal and an aspiration, not a history.

And that ideal can welcome anybody.