Intergalactic Summit

Cdr. Kim,

Your militia has abandoned you. Your leaders have failed you. Your enemies use you as an example. The State itself seems to be wrenching to be rid of you. Surely this is not the life you desire.

I understand that position, Commander. A younger, more impressionable Quattras found his escape from a life he hated on a planet he never called home, into service of the State. Long before I ever found myself in a hydrostatic capsule I served aboard the battleship Gaisho as a security officer.

I won't bore you to death with the details of my service record, but shall suffice it to say that at the end of my career I found myself unceremoniously discarded despite years of loyal service and unquestioning sacrifice to the State and Her Navy - including the sacrifice of my eye. I could have taken this as personal insult, as more than a few before me have done - the infamous Fatal and the Rabbit among them. I could have, but I did not. I found a home for myself, outside the influence of those who wished me ill, in a corp that wouldn't ask uncomfortable questions about my past and simply offered support.

I wish I could extend you an invitation to Stay Frosty - and, in fact, I do - but I know you won't accept. The life we have forged for ourselves sees us caught right in the middle of the ongoing conflict, and there are times at which we must fire upon Caldari capsuleers (not to be confused with their military counterparts) in the course of our operations. I understand the blind hatred and absolute devotion that make that unacceptable to you, as I was once the same way.

Find a new life, Diana. I implore you. There don't seem to be many people left who are interested in seeing you, as an individual, do anything but disappear. You should know that there is at least one person who believes you can find a direction for yourself. Figure out your own agenda, where you want to go in the Universe, and chase your star.

The dedication that you show, and the strength in following it in the face of such adversity, shows that you could do anything you wanted. Don't waste your potential on a State that doesn't even know who it is anymore.

The dream you follow isn't going to happen in the State. In one form or another, the same old stalemate will keep the machines running, so there can be no victory just as there can be no loss.

"All glory to the State!" I get it. I really do, Diana. I devoted my life to that monolith, even after the first time I died in its service, mortal and young and terrified but fighting all the same.

That state, though... It doesn't really exist. Oh sure it did at one time. I feel that within the last 40 or 50 years the Caldari State - as our forefathers had boldly seen it - still existed in some form. But the dealings surrounding the "hand-over" of Caldari Prime to Ishukone with no real change in the war proves it: our shared heritage has been fed to us with this very result in mind: a generation of warriors so hell-bent on destroying one another in pursuit of cultural supremacy that they don't even notice the collaboration going on behind closed doors.

In alliances like A Band Apart you always know what is going on behind the scenes, and the agenda is always pretty clear; usually it centers around survival. You want strong, clear leadership? Well then get your pew on out here, lady! Seriously, put on a damn t-shirt, climb in a Kestrel and blow some stuff up like it's your first time. No one's going to call your hate "zeitgeist" anymore if you just blap anyone who comes in your home system because "I AM DIANA KIM AND I SAID NO!"

Come home, Diana. You're welcome here. Come fly the unfriendly skies.

You have your ways, and I have mine. I respect that. o7

there is a lot that could be learned by joining a group like that, My last few months various non empire entities taught me a lot about how to fly in more constructed ways, I'm sure it might help you serve your militia better in the long run to open yourself up to branching into other doctrines and styles of combat. I'm not saying join them specifically but it might help you grow your skills from one niche to a broader spectrum, thus able to handle more situations.

I am JUST A SOLDIER of the State, Ms. Wendrika.

The State is alive and well - my own recent period of being forced to live outside it proved that to me. It can be found where the State has always been - in the Corporations.

I've had most of the idealistic corners knocked off me in my year and a half of service. I no longer believe that the State gets everything right, or that the State is the only viable form of government and society, but it is still what it once was. Better for Heth's reintroduction of Meritocracy. Better for shaking off Heth's drive to centralise and nationalise it.

If you want to know what the State is, there's nothing better than getting out and discovering what the State isn't.

You are too optimistic for your own health.

Kale, is your post pointless? It looks pointless.