Intergalactic Summit

Sentiments like this never cease to amaze me. We literally reached a point early last year where millions of people died in a single system, in a single day, because someone forgot to pay CONCORD for the privilege of having their name on a ledger next to a system CONCORD will never set foot in.

And you call this 'evolving'?

Real threads hull tank

Please, please tell me this was directed at least in part to me.
Tell me how much I should look at Null, and revise my opinions.
Tell me how little I understand of society there.

Then take a moment and consider who the frell you're talking to.

Farce indeed, Mr. Caine.
After YC110 tribal attack on Yulai they still allow republic to stay there.

Don't they have pride?!
Disgusting.

Of course it was directed, in part, to you.

Like anyone, your perceptions are based on your experience.

I don't say anyone needs to revise their opinions based on words. I suggest there's more than one path to understanding.

We're teachers as much as students.

I wouldn't suggest you take a fresh look at Null if I wasn't willing to see it through your eyes as well.

Indeed, they are. And I find it hilarious that you're going to try to teach me about our societies in Null. No, we're not only built on 'might or money', but there is no way around the simple fact that might and money, tightly intertwined, form a large part of not only the foundations of modern nullsec societies, but also form much of their structure as well. The pursuit of it, the accumulation of it, the completely discretionary wielding of it...

Power, be it economic, political, or military - and in the end, the distinctions between them are highly blurred - is at the very heart of who we are.

And I think if you speak with Ayallah, you'll find much the same attitude among the Therabois: We do what we want, because we can. And that, sir, is all about the power. That said...



You're wrong on this one, Lieutenant. Our societies are in competition with one another, and perhaps some of the less successful ones out here have been truly dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest, as you say... but the successful ones? No. The successful ones emphasize watching out for one another, putting the needs of the group above your personal impulses - because through the group, you are empowered to act on your impulses, but cut off from us, the individual becomes largely ineffective.

We are brutal and savage externally... internally... we're more like an extended family that plays a bit rough, sometimes, but watches out for one another.

Somebody badly missed the point of the proposal.

Now all you need to do is to get tens of trillions of people to sign up to your little experiment and to give it life for a couple of centuries. Bonne chance, mon ami!

Unless you get in the way of the Swarm and they glass your worlds. Or something else happens - like the political landscape changes and all the capsuleer support dries up and blows away and the investment stops.

Well. We shall see in good time. 200 years isn't even all that long for one of us, perhaps we'll be there to see it happen?

in answer to the OP.
Is it possible? Yes. historical evidence shows that it is in fact possible.
Is it likely? No. The age of the capsuleer has sown a lot of strife amongst the stars, and it has only just begun. (not only that, but we make a handy meatshield and axe combination, able to bear the brunt of many assaults and also be the weapon of our empires, what need have they of uniting, when a tiny number of us can do the work of entire navies?)

political logic is rarely logical.

-Idama Tertianus Rethelior