Intergalactic Summit

I must profoundly disagree with you. If all we're about is preserving a specific set of alleles then that is a shallow and ultimately self-defeating objective. We have succesfully preserved the Caldari people - now our people must ask what we wish to be, and what we will sacrifice for and contribute to the greater whole of humanity.

Genetics aren't a value, they're just chemistry. They might be chemistry that you personally value, but the fact that you value them derives from some other principle or philosophy. What's more, in the modern age that chemistry is an open book to us, and we use it like we use any other tool.

Would you build a society around specific hammers? Or specific guns? What would be the point of a society slavishly devoted to the maintenance and preservation of a specific kind of tool?

That's all genes are: A tool. They're the fractal, chemical foundation for encoding a human body, but they don't encode a person. Persons derive from experience, from education, from development and culture. A society is not built by bodies, it is built by people and capsuleers are serially living proof that a person does not have to inhabit any specific body.

All societies must inevitably have a guiding philosophy, and I think ours is about the principles of Heiian. meritocracy and collective effort long before genetics come into it, if ever they do.

The rest of humanity can quite frankly, go **** itself.

You speak of humanity, and you have no clue what that even entails. We are and always will be an Us versus Them species. Ideals can be quaint but in the end what truly defines both the self and the Us opposed to the Them is not ideals, ideology, philosophy or politics it is something far simpler and more fundamental:

Race and culture.

Expose a society to any kind of internal or external pressure and that is what humanity will default to in determining who is Us and who is Them.

That's humanity for you. Savage and cruel in its prejudicial nature. Whether it's in the State and our discrimination of others deemed different; the Gallentean nationalism in the Federation cultivated by the dog-whistlers Roden and Blaque who embolden people like Broteau to massacre; The slaying of Abel Jarek in Tronhadar by Tribalists in the Republic; the Amarrians who preached the purity of the throne or the destructive dogma of their, "Reclaiming".

Us or Them; Them or Us. That is all that has ever been and all that there ever will be as far as humanity is concerned.

There is no desire for understanding, only the arrogance of those who believe in the absolute that they are right so everyone must be wrong -- even as it leads them down the path of hubris and ignorance. There is no wish for dignity or compassion, only the demonizing of those considered as the other side until all that remains is the denigration of false effigies as offerings to the idols of pride, ambition, hate, and infamy consecrated by the words of demagogues and opportunists.

Knowing this, I have picked my side. Damn all the rest, because I have no interest in empty platitudes otherwise. If they keep you warm at night good for you, I prefer the fire of my rage and the burning of bodies stacked up on high.

In my moments of bigotry and prejudice I can at least get to enjoy those sweet moments of being the most human of all.

The rest of humanity is not Caldari, I owe no obligation or loyalty to the entirety of humanity, Mr. Hakatain.

So yes, the rest of humanity can indeed go **** itself or at the very least go die in a fire to keep me warm at night.

I'm more than willing to profit from the accelerant market, if so.



Actually it is a genetically pure clone I'm wearing because its biomass is grown via nucleus replacement of my original genetic material into germ ova that have been maturing for the past two decades since that inception. My genetic lineage can be traced back over two millenia from the first census data of the Raata Empire and certified as such by the anthropological bureau of Kaalakiota as Deteis from the eastern provinces of the former Oriyoni states.

That is why my clones carry increased failure rates due to rapid-onset neurological sclerosis which was an underlying condition of my original body.

Those who are Deteis are Caldari, just as those who are Civire are Caldari, just as I have already stated: those who trace descent from the Caldari Homeworld are Caldari.

I owe obligation to the Caldari people via the Caldari State which is the sole representative of the Caldari people in the cluster. I owe that obligation because I am Deteis, and I am Caldari.

My life in exile will always end when the drums call me back Home.



Ishukone is part of the State and as I said the State is the sole representative of the Caldari people. To serve Ishukone as citizen is to serve the State, and the Caldari people.



My genes are not flawed, Mr. Hakatain. I was bred for the purpose of serving in a Stormtrooper unit. I was not expected to live much beyond forty. The benefits of my design specifications were likely seen as advantageous for the task at hand even if the potential was neurodegenerative effects in a later life I would not have seen.

I suppose I'm used to it. I was first medically cloned into a replacement shell when I was 19, and I was triple amputated courtesy of an explosive device on my third drop in Pure Blind.

Just because Caldari are humans does not mean all humans are Caldari. I make that distinction, you do not.



My genetic profile reflects the purpose for which I was designed and born: To rapidly close with and engage the enemy with the prejudice of force and violence.

If I was not to die on a drop, then I was to die peacefully in my bed once my usefulness had been exhausted.

I believe the apt phrase would be: Planned obsolescence.

Kaalakiota just found additional use for me past my scheduled expiration date.

So no, not a flaw, because it was a deliberate design choice for my zygote batch at the time.

I'll get flak from others with Ishukone backgrounds for this: I'm a firm believer that I have no duty to the rest of humanity beyond the State. And that's saying something, because my family is neither Deteis, Civire, or even Achur. I have no genetic connection to the State. Indeed, my blood is basically from everywhere but the State. I'm Ealur and Sebeistor and probably Khanid and my family still live in the Kingdom and in the Federation and in the Republic.

But where am I from? To whom do I owe the debt of duty? None of those. I was born of mixed blood but born Caldari. Genetics didn't matter then, and then matter less now as the freedom of immortality and free cloning furthers my connection with my genetic past. I was born with four generations of fathers who were loyal, citizens to the State and to the expecation of heiian. **** everybody who says I couldn't have been Caldari.

What do I owe the rest of the cluster? Nothing. I, a Liberal, disagree with the other blocs on how the Caldari are best served in their interactions with greater humanity--I think that we should avoid the rest of the world burning down, because old eyes see that trees in a forest are stronger than those in the scape--but ultimately, we owe nobody anything. The Caldari owe themselves everything. I never fought to survive under Grandfather Cold. But my heritage to the Winds is as firm as anybody else in the State.

Neph, kirjuun, I'm not proposing that the rest of humanity should come FIRST in our affections, I'm only proposing that it should be somewhere in our affections.

Okay, I'm done here. I know when I'm flogging a dead pack mule.

Your kind words are appreciated but my outlook on things remains, for now, in the minority. I'm doing what I can though.

You serve nothing, you are exile, and it's not for you to decide, who are Caldari and who are not. You are not part of our society anymore. You are a pervert and, taking into account your positions about "racial purity" - rather immature one (according to my observations ideas of racial purity among teenagers decline as they reach 16-17 years old). I think there were some rumors that sexual deviants lose intellect.

There is no Caldari race. There is no Caldari bloodline. There is a Caldari nationality. It consist mostly of Deteis, Achura and Civire. But anyone who will serve the State, who will be born as Caldari and were raised in Caldari ideals (like Nephal Khaborik), will become one of Caldari nationality.


Our society is xenophobic, very harshly xenophobic. But Neph isn't alien to us, she perfectly merges in Caldari society. It is your ideas, Veikitamo Gesakaarin, who make you alien to Caldari.