Intergalactic Summit

Ooh! Is it maxim time?

This one's stuck with me.

Maxim 25: If the damage you do is covered by a manufacturer's warranty, you didn't do enough damage.

One for Kim and Elmund, just to fit the OP'S topic....

Maxim 51: Let them see you sharpen the sword before you fall on it.

Unfair fights is the reality of being a freelance privateer. Heck, I wouldn't engage another Breacher unless said Breacher is on the way of getting what I want (capturing a plex, typically).

What I am ribbing Diana Kim about is her hypocrisy about the whole 'courage and honour' and that 'Caldari Superiority' thing she likes to hide behind, that in reality, she's really just one of us folks who ply the spacelanes for violence and ISK. And she's goddamn awful with Caldari vessels that isn't doctrine-fitted and to be flown in fleet fights.

Says the person who is wallowing in the same filth that we are.

And yes, I am ignorant of the fact that you stuck a cap recharger on a Hookbill and you attempted to brawl in a Condor using rage rockets without using a web and the fact that your Rook wasn't fit for purpose.

If I dig up your latest killmail entries now, I wonder just how amazing you are at flying your Caldari vessels that isn't a Rokh.

No surprise then that you typically fly an Amarrian vessel or a Serpentis frigate.

But she is worth annoying repeatedly until she gets an aneurysm.

And the most effective way to get her screaming and raving is by putting a mirror right in front of her and forcing her to look long and hard into it.

Hows Caldari Prime? Quite the honorable battle you had successfully getting it back, How brave you all were putting your guns down and talking about it with the "Gallante Scum" as you put it, jack boots planted firmly on the floor instead of their necks. How brave and Noble. I'm sure its nice in some hemisphere this time of year. Oh wait.

With all due respect, were all the same to you right? Cowards, honorless, dirty, stupid tribals. If we're playing the generalization game maybe we shouldn't forget about our weaker halves shall we?

When I am thinking about minmatars, I imagine Ayallahs, Anabellas Rellas, Elmunds Egivands. Whom I should imagine instead?

It wasn't actually Liberal bloc, ma'am, just a single Ishukone corporation. Ishukone corporation was one of the leading and exemplary corporations in the State before former CEO Gairushi's death. After his assassination, executed by Federal Navy Adm. Noir, his position was taken by Mens Reppola. Since YC110 Ishukone corporation became distancing itself from the rest of the megacorporations, turning itself from prominent and aspiring pace-maker into black sheep of the State.

And it wasn't even other megacorporations trying to put Ishukone down because of envy or something like that, because still Ishukone was way too far from leading Caldari powerhorses. Decisions, that were distancing Ishukone from the rest of the State were coming from the Ishukone itself. For example, I think it was a wide-known scandal that Ishukone was working with Federals in prisoner exchange program, so Ishukone workers weren't tortured in hidden Federal prisons in Black Rise. While members of all other megacorporations were treated as animal stock, or even worse... almost like blood raider slaves. I have reports about Federal atrocities in these camps, if you are interested, I could go about it in details in private conversation.

Yet, the fact remains. Ishukone talked Feds to treat their citizens not like the rest of Caldari. And this Ishukone was always opposing the war and other Megacorporation decisions.

So, ma'am. I wouldn't blame real Liberals about this situations, but only those, who commit treason, pretending it was a "liberal act" instead of treason.

Transactions involving Home traditionally wind up being very expensive for all involved parties. Thus it was on that day. If anyone truly expected us to be able to stop the full might of the Federal Navy with the forces at our disposal, then that person was a dribbling lunatic, the idea (as always) was to extract full measure of blood and treasure. And I'm pretty happy with how much Highlander wound up costing the Federal Navy.

We managed to make the Peace less costly than the War. I call that a success and I also call having a system of government that was sufficiently inclusive so as to include Ishukone, another victory. Ishukone was best placed to pursue the peace and that position meant that they successfully achieved Caldari control over most of Home. I believe Mens Reppola will come to be remembered in the same way as Mathias Sobaseki if he truly pulls this off - and deservedly.