Intergalactic Summit

Thank you, Khross-haan, for your research on this matter! It's very much appreciated. While I'd been reviewing news over the past four years, I hadn't completed my review. Your summary allowed me to fill in the gaps in my knowledge. Really, though, this allowed me to confirm much that I suspected: Heth's power is a product of voluntary ceding of authority.

This is to state: aside from the admittedly very suspect seizure of Caldari Constructions, Heth has no inviolable control. A CEO doesn't own a corporation; he is an executive elected by the board of directors to make strategic decisions as a proxy for the board. In the case of Ytiri, there is no statement of ownership share. The same is true of Kaalakiota. If the boards of either should wish to depose Heth, all that is required is a vote. My suspicion, though, is that these corporations will not be quick to replace the man on account of his former popularity -- they likely don't wish to antagonize their work force unnecessarily. Given time, though...

I should elaborate on why I consider Heth's seizure of Caldari Constructions suspect. How exactly does an MTAC operator get the funds to purchase majority stake in a major corporation? Even if share prices were plummeting, you'd have to figure an opportunistic megacorporation would have gotten to it first...?

I think of the position of Executor as being the state's equivalent to a corporation's CEO: a position elected by the board to operate a corporation on the board's behalf. Just as this is the case, the Executor's position is taken at the behest of the CEP. I believe they could rightly dissolve it, or replace Heth on account of poor performance.

All that Heth has legitimate claim to, then, is Caldari Constructions, and arguably the Caldari Providence Directorate.

It was OUR Titan on orbit of OUR planet. This is not a pesky gallentean affair what we do with our ships. They broke our sovereignty without real excuse, just to kill millions on the planet below.
Simply while gallentes are allowed to do things like this, "getting along" is plainly impossible.

You would not be the first or last to consider Executor Heth's sudden ownership over CC suspect.

Your point regarding the voluntary ceding of powers by the megacorporations is an accurate one, and one that I've made myself many times. It should be reiterated, however, that the position of "Executor" did not exist before Tibus Heth and it is my sincere hope that it doesn't continue to exist after him. The CEP has proven itself capable of managing State affairs and embodies our ideals to a much fuller extent.

Man, I really dodged a bullet when you turned down my job offer, didn't I James?

And the attempt to stop aid from being received by those who were fortunate enough to (barely) survive that event is an attempt to preserve 'pride'. Typical. Pride means different things to different people, and though the Provists might think that what they did is honorable, to everyone else in New Eden, it is just shameful. Even the Amarr look down on you for your cold contempt.

They didn't go around him, that would imply that he has that level of authority. The only thing that has happened here is that out of the eight megacorporate CEOs that sit on the Chief Executive Panel (Heth being one of the eight), the majority ruled against Heth's wishes instead of complying with them (either by the lack of opposition or the presence of support).

They did not go around him, they simply exercised their authority.

Pieter, those "terrorist" were Gallenteans civilians fighting a repressive foreign occupation.

I know and understand that most Caldari view Caldari Prime as "Home", but so do those you call terrorists.

My position on the disposition of Caldari Prime is common knowledge. But any government that hopes to stand a chance of bringing peace and stability to Caldari Prime is going to have to acknowledge the non-Caldari who have called it home for generations.

The ethnically pure planet of your collective cultural fantasy no longer exists.

Quite obviously not gonna happen. You know this to be true and it makes you so mad.

So some additional details.

Fifty-Four percent of Caldari Prime will be administered by Ishukone with the citizens there retaining their corporate citizenship and subject to Ishukone law and taxes. THe other fourty-six percent will be Gallente territory administrated by Material Aquisition, a subsidiary of Quafe with everyone living in those districts being considered Federation citizens and subject to their law. Neither side are to be racially segregated which, assuming it holds up, will be different from both the past five years as well as former Gaallente occupation. Modrus Legion will provide security and policing from a joint fund operated equally by the CEP and the Federation.


I can't say I agree with the move to have nearly half of the planet owned by the Gallente. I do hope it is just a transitional step on the road to Caldari Prime being fully returned to the Caldari people. I have no issues with Gallente still living on the planet if they so choose, but they would become Caldari Citizens if the planet were to be fully returned to our control.

By extension I assume that the Provists will be declaring a State of War with Nugoeihuvi?



Your hypocrisy is showing.