Intergalactic Summit

Nope, you're too well spoken, that makes you a threat. Sorry.

You underestimate yourself, Mr. Baracca.

While that may be the case, I have a tendency to believe Acassa Midular at her word on this. Not only because she's proven rather forthright previously, but mostly because the late former Midular needed the tribes to be unified, to present a front to the rest of the universe. It was in their interest to maintain peace. Recent events may be leaving the new Sebiestor chief pondering whether unity under Shakor is a good idea, especially considering the fact that his somewhat less pleasant reputation is harming the Sebiestor along with everyone else.

In short, perhaps the waste of the Elder Fleet, the Colelie incident, and others, it would seem Acassa doesn't have faith in the current administration to adequately represent all the tribes collectively. So perhaps she thinks she can function better with her tribe on her own.

Or perhaps this is a play for power on her part so that she doesn't have to cowtow to Shakor. It's difficult to say. I've never met the woman.

As an aside, where would you draw that line of balance as it pertains to the present political situation?

Flatly untrue.



The Chief of the Brutor Tribe is Wkumi Pol. There has been not one single instance of the Sanmatar even attempting to make a decision on behalf of the Brutor Tribe or any evidence whatsoever to support an implication that The Brutor Tribe has any power above or over any other tribe nor any position of favor in the Republic because the Sanmatar is also Brutor.

The Sanmatar as all other Brutor, in matters of the Tribe, falls under the word of his clan, then Chief Pol.

The Sanmatar's position is not that of "Minmatar Heth" that everyone so wants to paint him as but as the de-facto head of state, a mediator between the other tribes of the Tribal Council. To even be Sanmatar he "must renounce his or her own tribe to maintain objectivity, effectively becoming a nomad among their own people."

If you think that you would speak of unfair favor in the Tribal Assembly before any Tribe or Matari would you are out of your mind. If you think he gets to act autonomously even you are showing your ignorance. He mediates disagreements between the Tribes. That is it. As leader, he gets held responsible for poor mediation and bad decisions, his place is to carry the weight of the Republic and its actions. He is far, far from a dictator or someone that any Tribe has to "cowtow" to.

Any sign of favor or undue control the other Tribes would say so as is their right and responsibility. Such as Chief Midular addressing the Tribal Assembly about how the assassination of the Ray of Matar was handled. About how a tribal matter was unduly made a matter for the Tribal Assembly to handle. She did not say a single thing about the Sanmatar.

This is a matter of under what circumstances the central government may act in stead of a Tribe.


Quit trying to push conspiracy theories as fact.
Quit trying to make the Sanmatar your new Heth.

That possibility also exists, indeed. It only makes sense that if she really is opposed to Shakor's unity over the tribes for her to push in the other direction, which means decentralization and power restored into the hands of the tribes.

However, Maleatu Shakor is also a firm proponent of tribal governance, only that the power has to be concentrated into the Tribal Council. Where some tribe leaders like Acassa Midular (in our hypothesis here) could actually favour the same tribal flavour where only said flavour is similar in essence : I believe if this is true, then her form of tribal decentralization puts the power on something closer to a Minmatar confederation of tribes rather than the current federation of tribes united under the "Sanmatar".

Which is a world of difference in itself.

All in all, is Acassa Midular genuinely interested in maximizing tribal autonomy (in favour of a Minmatar confederation) or just following the current tribal fad while actually following the footsteps of the Ray of Matar (in favour of a Republic where tribal influence stops at the cultural level) ?

In any case, Shakor political line stands somewhere in between.

I see no downside to the tribes gaining any facet of autonomy, including autonomy from the will of voters. May this change encourage a return of focus to their own ideals instead of the ideals of others.

The tribals as a civilization won the right to choose, yes even wrongly.

Happy new year, Indeed!!!

I am curious to hear more about the precise role of the Republic parliament past this reform.

As it reads, it looks like a mere puppet of the Tribal Council...