Intergalactic Summit

For clarification, sir,

The Caldari lived as exiles for centuries while the Gallente repopulated their conquered homelands.

The Gallente lived much as they always have for five years while the Caldari retook their homelands.

It is your statement that the former is a better situation than the latter?

These questions and this sentiment are borne from a natural misunderstanding of our people and why this singular planet is so important to us. To the Caldari, this planet is not just a ball of dirt that we once came from. It is far more than that. The concept is difficult to explain to outsiders but I will do my best.

Most Caldari (I would say "all" but that is another discussion for another time) walk The Way of the Winds, or just "The Way." It is not just a religion or spirituality, it is our way of life, our culture and our history. Caldari Prime is home to the spirits that taught us "The Way" and our history is written plainly upon the landmarks and architecture of it.

This planet is home to the Kaalakiota Peaks, the Great Western Sea and the ancient Kresh trees. It is the home of our guiding spirits and our ancestral spirits. It is where we were found by Cold Wind and taught to survive in the harsh lands of our home, it is where Heart-of-the-Woods provided for us and taught us to build shelter from Cold Wind's rage and Storm Wind's teasing, it is where Mountain Wind resides at the peaks of Kaalakiota and where Wind-of-the-West taught us to trade and how to sail. It is the land The Maker gave to us and the lessons we have been taught from it remain dear to us today.

The very way of life of the Caldari people is an extension of what we learned from Caldari Prime. The strict and unforgiving climate taught us the values of self-sacrifice for the community, hearth and home, the necessity for efficiency, honor toward one's family and one's kin, benevolence to one another so that all are strengthened and yes, even ruthlessness and the harshness toward those who refuse to serve the community or place oneself above the many.

Caldari Prime isn't just a planet, it is the very embodiment of everything that we are.

Apparently not or the Gallente would just let us have it.

Right... so back to the wormhole plan, then...

That would require a tremendous amount of resources. It is much easier to find to relocate something, well, more relocatable, like, say, gallente citizens.

It's because of people with your mindset that this bitter enmity between our two peoples exists in the first place, lad.

Your cry for continued aggression and war will only result in more death. If you believe destroying one titan has crippled the State's defenses, you're extremely naive.

Why does my mouth taste like bile?
Oh, right, it's because I am agreeing with Diana Kim


Shiigeru wasn't hurting anyone till pieces started falling on their heads.
If the Caldari and Gallente people aren't equals, then the deficiency is yours.

and you call us zealots?



You realize that the Home Fleet wasn't our only, or even main fleet correct? have you even reviewed the outcome of the Battle of Caldari Prime? have you seen the casualty figures let alone the number of ships left on the field after the attack?

does Iyen-Oursta mean anything to you?

If the only tool you can comprehend is a hammer, then all your soloutions is nails !

I sometimes have a hard time articulating my attitude towards war, so please bear with me.

If war seriously impeded our species, we'd have grown out of the habit a long time ago, I think. Instead, it's one of our defining pastimes. Given that, and the fact that we have been on a consistent upwards trend throughout recorded history, then that means either that war is not actively detrimental to us, or that it is of some benefit.

If you buy (as I do) the theory that humanity in these stars came through a wormhole in the New Eden system known as EVE, then that means that the only thing suggested to have ever truly knocked us on our collective ass in any serious way was apparently a natural disaster rather than a man-made one.

We're an aggressive species. We thrive on playing a high-stakes game, and if given the option to remove that aggression, I'd refuse it. I'm quite certain that doing so would destroy us - to remove our aggression would remove so many other beneficial things. Our drive for improvement, our passion for causes, our compulsion to expand our knowledge. I firmly believe that the secret to well-being is, once you have secured your own needs, finding a cause greater than you are and devoting yourself to it.

I have no love for war. It's grim, ugly, terrible and tragic. But I view it as the price we pay for so many wonderful things. We'll never be rid of it and I'm quite convinced we should never wish to be rid of it. What we should wish for is that the intervals between wars should be as long and as prosperous as possible.

But when the time inevitably comes? Strike first, strike hard, and preferably without warning. Be relentless and ruthless, be cold and calculating. Win at all costs, but remember that sacrificing your ideals and your self is itself a defeat condition. There are no half-measures in war, and if you find yourself in a fair fight then you have failed militarily. If you must wage war, lose yourself in savagery for as long as necessary, secure victory as swiftly and efficiently as possible, then resume your facade of civilisation.

I don't know if true war with the Federation is coming. A week on from the downing of the Shiigeru we're doing better than I had thought. My initial rage has faded and neither side has reacted rashly or impulsively. But if it does come to that, I know which side I've always been on.