Intergalactic Summit

New Eden is traditionally described as being composed of five major empires, I will endeavor herein to put forth the case that the definition should be expanded to six. Let's begin with a member of the well regarded top five, first and foremost are the Amarr who control a vast empire and who are arguably the oldest “human” empire in the cluster. No other single human empire could successful challenge them in a war of aggression, and so they stand atop as the most stable and militarily powerful nation state in all of New Eden.

The Jove Empire is considerably smaller then that of the Amarr but the fact that they rebounded to a high tech society in just a few short centuries compared to the millennial efforts required by the four human empires gives them an extreme technological advantage. But in the process the Jove lost their humanity and have evolved into a different species trapped with a low reproductive rate that effectively disables them from populating New Eden in numbers sufficient to ever control it even with their great technological superiority.

The Minmatar Empire has been reconstituted after more then 700 years of slavery beneath the boot of the Amarr Empire, although the Matari people have a understandable dislike for their former slavers, in all fairness credit and consideration must be given to the gifts bestowed to them by the Amarr Empire which uplifted them to the point whereafter their successful massive rebellion they were ready to take a place amongst the other human empires of New Eden as an equal. They had always had a deep spiritual religious nature and when honed by more then seven centuries of slavery they emerged a hard working, resilient, inventive people.

The Caldari Empire was forged in the furnace of a harsh inhospitable planetary environment that demanded cooperation and hard labor just to survive. Thus the modern Caldari are almost genetically hardwired to think of the group prior to self consideration, which fuels their fierce patriotism and unswerving loyalty to the mega-corporations that dominate their economic system. Their growth as a major military and economic power in New Eden has been held back first by their merger into the Gallente Federation, and then by the wars and acrimony engendered when they left the federation. The mutual mistrust between the Caldari and the Gallente has led to more then one shooting war and a shared hostile border frequented with minor military clashes.

The Gallente Empire is founded on perhaps the most noble of humanity's creation, progressive democratic principles not rooted in ethnicity, drawing and renewing it's power from the diversity of all mankind. The Gallente Federation is the only republic in New Eden that is a true representational democracy, and their commitment to spreading their beliefs in liberty, and universal human dignity enabled them to support the newly formed Minmatar Republic when it first emerged from bondage. With a large population and their deeply held reverence for human life the Gallente pioneered artificial intelligence development and unmanned drone combat vehicles to hazard the risks of combat. However their noble roots are also their greatest weakness, they lack the strong unswerving resolve of divine destiny, a force greater then any creation of man.

My candidate for the sixth empire of New Eden is the still un-united Capsuleer Empire of Null Sec. The capsuleers have been growing more and more powerful economically and militarily, the areas they control in Null space rivals those of the other five empires. They currently lack a charismatic leader to coalesce around but when one emerges their combined might will easily pick off the other human empires one by one with not too much difficulty. Like the Jove they have both a technological advantage over, and a smaller population base then the other four human empires, however unlike the Jovians, capsuleers can readily recruit from human populations cluster wide, and have no reproductive barriers impeding them.

This is the hypothesis I put forth for your consideration, clearly the capsuleers are on a path for domination in New Eden, who can possibly stop them? The only force capable of holding them in check would be a united New Eden under the banner of the Amarr Empire. The capsuleers of Null sec have no love or allegiance to the capsuleers loyal to their respective empires, we are merely targets and sources of salvage.

Can you see any individual empire conquering Null sec and ousting the capsuleer sov holders? Once engaged with the capsuleers in such a foolhardy effort do you think the other empires would not also strike when their long time rival was weakened by a multi-front war? The Caldari will never accept Gallente leadership again so that rules them out as a leader of a New Eden wide empire, but they do have a working treaty with Amarr. The Minmatar, well they are still the weakest, and have now even chilled their relations with the Gallente their greatest benefactor, so they'll be returned to their slave status as well befits their ilk. The Gallente with their committees and votes will yield to the inevitability of becoming a lesser part of a bigger effort as long as we grant them their arts, and delusions of free choice. Once united under the banner of a legitimate elected Emperor of a restored Holy Amarr Empire, humanity will be strong enough to follow the path set forth for us as revealed in the word of God in the scriptures. Neither Joves nor Null Sec capsuleer Alliances/Empires will be able to stand in our way.

According to what I've been able to pull up: the Jove doesn't hold a seat in the Assembly of the four empires; they MADE the Assembly.

Against a number of parties' wishes, there are four seats in this Assembly. Four. Not five, not three.

Amarr. Despite their reclaiming operation against the Jove, talk about taking the high road.
Caldari. The original gifted with the capsule.
Gallente. The largest economy and society of "free" people.
Minmatar. The constantly debated if they should hold a seat, as many of our kind can't tell their left hand from their right.

This Assembly is enforced and protected by CONCORD. CONCORD is Jovian tech with Jovian backing, the strongest safeguarded technology to this present day.

CONCORD has one mission, aside from enforcing that Assembly: Removal of criminal capsuleers (protecting their investment in us and the four powers). So far, they've never had to expand beyond that. I almost would like to see your "nullsec capsuleers" try to overrule them. That would be the most unsupported and unintelligent act of the century (not even your Empress will side with that.)

Right now, their response grid is limited to systems with 0.5 security and higher. If they extend that grid at any point in time to your nullsec space, you WILL lose all rights to it. And you will not fight, it is simply impossible for you and all the combined might of capsuleers united to fight their makers. They're fully prepared to end all of us as quick as they empowered us.

CONCORD are the Jovians' shadow; their eyes and their ears.

I dare you to make the same mistake the reclaimers made and try to fight them...

Concord technology could not restrain our rebellious slaves, or protect Gallente from the Caldari uprising, you place your faith in technology you don't understand, while the pure True Amarr place our faith in the will of God.

So as you kneel before the inhuman Jove, ask yourself why they, seemingly so all powerful, also collapsed with the four empires of mankind? Ask yourself why they are a dying breed? Perhaps more importantly ask yourself who will you worship when they are broken,dead, and finally extinct?

Nullsec capsuleers never die and never lose the will to fight. The only thing that limits us is resources, which we have quite a lot of.

It would be too costly for the four empires to put up a united front and try to get rid of us. It simply cannot be done. We are masters of diplomacy. While there are are a lot of divides, a temporary alliance between the major coalitions to hold you back shouldn't be too difficult to form.

Sure, we fight each other more than the big four do. But the big four are essentially either trying to completely annihilate each other or prevent themselves from being annihilated. Out here, it's mostly about resources. Hand them over, or be destroyed. Either way there are no hard feelings. Capsuleers can often find themselves siding with the people they were trying to kill just a few years earlier.

But before you deal with us, you're going to have to deal with CONCORD, who are obscenely powerful to the point of ridiculousness. They regularly smite capsuleer law breakers in mere seconds. I'd like to see any faction try to destroy them.

Actually, a nullsec alliance is usually beaten by the erosion and destruction of its will to fight, not by its resources, isn't it? The so-called 'Failcascade'?

Eh that can be the case, but what typically results in a failcascade is when a nullsec alliance literally runs out of ships to fight with. If the fleet commanders are competent and those in charge of resources are active and productive, this shouldn't really happen. Though if one group screws up, the rest goes under.

Nullsec capsuleers don't really lose the will to fight, just the will to fight under a current alliance. The only people who don't have a will to fight are those who never had it to begin with.

On a personal note some of my familiy's constellation holdings border Khanid space in Aridia so the strength of your Khanid faith is very familiar to me. Khanid vessels pass with the blessing of true allies and good neighbors in our region of space.

As I said, of the null sec capsuleers, they currently have no leader to rally around, yet I think it wise to factor them into any equation of the future of New Eden.

Does The Mitanni ring any bells? Currently about half of all nullsec capsuleers (The CFC) rally around him. i'm technically enemies with him yet I do have quite a bit of respect for the man.

He's the fellow that organized this little event in Jita. And launched a permanent "hulkageddon" that continues to hamper hi-security mining, especially in Caldari space. If the CFC wasn't currently occupied, they could effectively cripple the economy of Hi-security space, and likely the rest of the cluster as a result. They would do it not for profit or for power, but for tears and laughs.

Nullsec alliances are divided, but a lot more unified than you would think. It's currently at a point where being in a nullsec alliance means having half of the nullsec capsuleers as your allies.

Kind sir we are in agreement then, in pods we are fairly unconcerned about permanent death, though I for one can not stand the pain of dying, away from our pods the better planned our activities are the better the outcome will be. You'd be surprised the number of pilots that have been careless when out of pod, with immortal merc clones waltzing around New Eden like they own the place, being thoughtful in planning an executing all excursions has never been a better idea.