Intergalactic Summit

I have only recently been granted the separation from the State to appreciate this delicious irony, but the wait has been worth it.

I am quite simply staggered, now I see it from the outside, how a proud, technologically advanced nation boasting some of the most advanced star ships and metropolitan organisational schemes of the entire cluster (barring an obvious exception), is always looking to 'return to X, or reclaim the age of Y'. How did our forward thinking people become so fixated on the dead days of the past?

Learn from them? Definitely. But living there is a pretty terrible idea, it just means you'll always treat your present and future as baggage you are forced to carry around while you pine for better days you never even experienced for yourself.

Let the girl go Guri. Sure, anarchy and a penchant for theft and sabotage will probably provide her with a pretty lasting state of culture shock, but she might learn something other than history.

I understand how the State likes to pitch itself, but the marketing isn't quite matching the product anymore. You lot can't even agree on what it is to even BE Caldari anymore. I remember when it was about faction and bloc politics, about badges and incremental ideological differences; not this mess of attempting to define what you even are anymore.

Yes the Caldari learn from their past, I said as such, but in these times more and more of you seem to want nothing more than to undo the last few years of progress and go back to lining the pockets of your favourite CEO (whether you like it or not). That is the 'living in the past' I am speaking of, and the vast majority of capsuleer 'Caldari' decrying and even instigating violent rhetoric against a war hero, the current Executor, are just a symptom of the palsy that has gripped the State. Even if they get the old corrupt nepotism they are so keen on, they will not be satisfied, and they cannot die.

Personally, I do not think it is a sickness the State will recover from, but with any luck it is one it can withstand long enough to drag the Federation down with it.

Thinking about it, there is more and more reason for the girl to go Guri. They're pretty good at picking apart the remains of State facilities and coming up with something previously unheard of. Who knows what they could make out of the corpse of your State.

And here I was, trying to be polite by not mentioning those rather 'fabulous' rose coloured specs you appear to be wearing.

Lying to try and discredit someone is a wonderful idea, assuming others don't have access to those same records and can easily ascertain that you are lying. Her great (times 7) grandfather was Goro Tovil-Toba, YakiyaTobil-Toba's first cousin-which meant that they had the same grandfather.

Her branch of the family settled in Ticho, a largish city on New Caldari, away from the 'main' branch of the Tobil-Tova family that were the direct descendants of Yakiya. The family are Lai Dai citizens, although, many join the Caldari Navy. Seraphia is the first in her branch of the family to ascend to the ranks of capsuleer and her family has released a statement condemning her in the strongest possible terms, saying "We have no daughter Seraphia." They also added that if the girl ever came to her senses, she should do the honorable thing and take her own life.

If you wish to take character assassination lessons from the best in the cluster, The Mittani, I can arrange it for two billion ISK, paid up front.

Someone from Gentlemen's agreement shot my Ibis on the way in. Luckily, I had a small contained welded to the side of my pod to carry Ms. Sin's gift of a 28 year old Thukker whiskey. I'm here, settling in nicely. Oddly enough, I have not seen anyone from Goonswarm yet.

There are plenty of ways to get information. Bribery is a good one, as it leaves everyone happy. Extortion, well, it works great. Outright threats are yet another way. The best way, make sure that the person working somewhere is loyal to you.

Or, you know, a galnet search works.

A night with three Jin Mei pleasure girls and an excessive amount of narcotics has put me in a really good mood. What can I say?

I was going to respond to Khross, then I realized he was serious. I just can't correct that level of . . . Ancestors, I don't even know what to call it.

Its called pointing out your fallacies, Sweetie. And its not that hard, given the way you've been arguing for your cause. And I use that word loosely.

By Khross's reasoning, we would all be happily living on Caldair Prime, under the heel of the Gallente. A former StaPro pilot arguing for, what exactly? Passive resistance? Peaceful resolutions?

Do you have any idea how ludicrous you sound, Khross?