Intergalactic Summit

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With Pyre's departure from militia service, I too have questions I wish to ask Pieter. And Pieter alone. The rest of Pyre speaks enough by willfully dropping the flag of the State that I don't care whether they wind up lobotomized by Nation, or shot as pirates.

Damn it, at least answer the op's topic after you rant! What do you fly?

Anything with launcher hardpoints, preferably Rocket launchers.

Here's my take on it:

Where do they come from? If they're civilians & militia captured by Nation, you only assist an enemy in the State in strengthening themselves as they lose nothing in the trade, only exchanging PoW they just captured for pirate crew.

If their origin is from Gallente prisoncamps, same deal, eliminate the middle men (Sansha) and liberate them from the prisoncamps, you'll create much more loyal caldari citizens that way.
On top of that, considering the way the Feds treat their POW, you can expose it to the gallente media, bring some reporter along to show how they're treated, turn the system against them! Should help putting some wind out the sails of the Black Eagles control over those prisoncamps, making life a bit more bearable for those still imprisoned.

We know from Slave Tama01 & Citizen Astur how Nation categorizes their captives / 'liberated civilians'. The most promising ones end up as Slaves. Those who are of use due to a variety of reasons get cloned en masse to serve as crew. And finally, those who are unsuitable get recycled into biomass for the clones.
Undoubtly, Sansha would only trade those 'unsuitable' civilians back, in exchange for pirate crew that might contain promising or usable people... So in the end, Pyre's agreement just serves as a way to strengthen Nation.

The major dilemma we face is this: is the safe retrieval of (possibly infected) civilians worth to strengthen Nation? In my opinion, how harshly it sounds, the answer is no.
On short term, saving them by exchanging for criminals does look like the best course of action, but on the long term it only helps Nation in accumulating better individuals at a slightly accelerated rate without any additional costs.


Lets ask a question in return, would you strengthen the Federation if you could recover POW from them in exchange? Note I specifically say strengthen, because that's what the trade means for Nation, they get a chance for more suitable members in exchange for the 'useless chaff' they can only use as biomass.

Why... WHY?...


BECAUSE CALDARI SUPERIORITY !!!

In Tuulinen's sort of defence, he did try and blow the whistle on the entire situation several months ago by letting Jurou Yuan know when an exchange was taking place, although I really don't think that he was expecting him to take employment with TS-F shortly after.

I imagine that was rather unfortunate.

In any case, I prefer ships of Amarrian or Caldari design, although the Republic Navy's decision to bring the Tempest into the modern age is certainly visually impressive, if a little lacking on the configuration side of things.

For obvious reasons PFDC will not share information to the public it considers of importance to operational security by default. This really is none of your business, but since speculations are, as usual, running wild I've been authorized by the board to make the following clarification:

Elements picked up after contact with hostiles are subject to state laws and will be, whenever possible, handed over to the authorities or, protected by the same set of laws and upon deliberate approval, moved as penal labour workforce to a model facility in the Kingdom. Only elements not protected under state laws or waiting for their firing squad would be eligible for an exchange such as the one being condemned here.

PFDC continues to operate with the greater good of the caldari state and its subjects in its mind, which forms the solid basis for all decisions made in the past and future, and elements disagreeing are not going to change the course as public opinion is not and never will be the basis for decisions made.

Be it as it may you are all welcome to indulge yourselves in conjecture and condemn us some more - it will not change the fact that we're not afraid to get our hands dirty to achieve results.

-D.T

My sister Danika and I have always flown vessels built with proven Caldari engineering.

I find a certain simplicity and dependability in shields, along with missiles, which provide versatility as a weapon.

This was almost exclusive until recently. Having since began work for a new employer we've found ourselves in the position where we need to drastically diversify our piloting skills because of doctrine. Thus today you could find us piloting vessels from almost all of the Empires, and those of the various factions inbetween.

In the past we've always held a singular-skill doctrine within our family's operations. Pilots will specialize in a 'brand' of vessel and continue to refine those skills over time rather than branch out into other 'brands'. While this naturally limits the pilot's versatility it does however produce ones who're very highly skilled in their individual ship preferences.

My Tengus have always been my bread and butter, but as I write this post via my comm I'm sitting in a relatively new Proteus. It kinda feels so wrong, but also feels so right, because in all honesty I've found these things to be incredibly tough when either dealing, or receiving, damage. It does take some getting used too though.

I am a loyal Gallentean, however I fly the right ship for the job. Need to control my range? Lasers are the best. Need to kill in one hit? Artillery baby! Can't afford to miss? Missiles away!

And when I need to tear your ship apart on the molecular level, Blasters and Drones... my favorite *hugs hobgoblin plushie*

At the end of the day, selecting the right tool for the right job is key. If you let either your patriotism or your bigotry limit your ship choices, then your key wont fit the right lock.




History is littered with murderers, theives, and cowards who justified comitting the very worst atrocities with "I was just following orders!" It pains me to suspect that you might be one of them.