Intergalactic Summit

Wait, it means that you glorify God by offering blood of the fedo dung spawn to him? And you consume the said substance?

Ewww. Bad Nauplius.

I always knew Nauplius had bad taste.

There is a difference between ethnicity and identity. I am, for instance, what one might call 'ethnically Matari.' But there is little about me that identifies as such or would be identified as such by others.

Sadly, this is often the case. But don't make the mistake of assuming that a few loud eggers represent the Matari.

This is exactly the problem. The Republic is weak, because it is the Republic. It cowers and bargains when it should be building it's own strength.

The Republic is not Minmitar.

The Republic just holds us back.

Exactly - if it wasn't just the Brutor and Thukker tribes - had the other tribes contributed their might - then perhaps things may have been different. I don't know what that witch managed to acquire, but it does not make her a match for the full force the tribes could bring to bear.

And even if war is not the right path - at least we could defend ourselves, rather than relying on the Federation to fight our battles for us. Democracy may work for Gallenteans, but Minmitar should always be lead by the Elders. Not politicians.

Maybe part of the problem is that too many not-Matari think that they know what is best for Matarti.

Maybe part of the problem is that too many Matari think they are right!

If you think that the cost of the Elder fleet was a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of money being funneled out of the first republic by corruption than you are sorely mistaken. The amount of money needed to create a nation the size of the Caldari State in less than a hundred and fifty years is astronomically larger than the cost of the vessels used by the Elders.

The current Republic fleet also vastly dwarfs the few ships of the Elder fleet. The Elder fleet was financed by he Brutor and Thukker Tribes yes, and it is completely within their rights to spend their money however they choose to. Given the massive gain of a re-united Tribes the cost is almost unbelievably small in both lives and quanta.

If the Caldari state could have retaken Caldari Prime for the same cost as the Elder fleet it would have been hailed as one of the most brilliant operations in history. Instead, people echo rhetoric about the cost of the Elder fleet endlessly until you have half of these capsuleers thinking that food is rationed in the Republic and people are turning in metal to make starships.

So is the strength of the Amarrian propaganda machine that everyone cries out in critical complaint about how the Republic spends its money with absolutely no information at all.

Two hundred and ninety one systems and almost seven trillion people in less than a hundred and fifty years and you think the money is all going to starships. All of you are either uninformed or at this point willfully blind if you honestly believe some of the idiocy I have read in this thread and heard echoed elsewhere.

hint: almost everything blackfeathers and others like her is wrong, most do not even seem to be aware a new tribal assembly even exists.

No wonder you people constantly are surprised by what the republic does, most of you cannot even quote a single true fact about it.

To Blackfeathers and people like her I say; every polity has faults. A citizen should try to recognise them and work to correct them. If you walk away and refuse to engage yourself with doing so then what right do you have to criticise?

The Republic has been my home from birth. My father has spent the best part of his life fighting to defend it as part of the Fleet. My mother worked to help maintain it and welcome new citizens into it as part of Urban Management until the day she died.

My mother's, ancient, clan still work to this end. My father's, newly formed, clan still remains true to the path he has walked thus far.

I will not dishonour my immediate ancestors, or those that have come before them, by abandoning my home and that of my people. Ideally that should be in peaceful, productive ways.

If that is not possible?

Then, the Storms will rise.

Yet you work for a Gallente news agency?

You are right. We have to be truly independent and truly self-reliant. There is no reason we can't.





Go **** yourself.