Intergalactic Summit

As everyone knows, the Caldari were once part of the Federation, before the First Gallente War of Aggression against the Caldari People, which led to the exodus of the Caldari people from their ancestral homeworld, and the formation of the Caldari State.

But what were the causes of this war ? Could it have been avoided ?

Let us begin, at the beginning, and examine the socioeconopolitical origins of the First Gallente War of Aggression.

The Gallente originated on the planet Gallente Prime, or "Gallentia", as they called it, while the Caldari originated on the planet Caldari Prime, or "Home", as they called it. Which is pretty reasonable, as it was their home after all.

As luck would have it, the Gallente developed interplanetary spaceflight before the Caldari, who were at the time occupied in developing advanced financial instruments.

So it came to pass that a group of Gallente pseudo missionaries, calling themselves the "Cultural Deliverance Society", landed upon Caldari Prime, and began annoying the population with their strange fashions and outlandish behaviour.

This first contact inevitably did not go well. When the comely young Gallente astronautesses asked the Caldari if they would "like some hot super sex", the Caldari responded with the answer that was entirely appropriate, given the climate and agricultural productivity of Caldari Prime at the time.

The failure to provide hot soup, despite that clearly being what was offered, was only the beginning of the cultural friction.

For, the differing climates of Gallentia and Home, shaped the peoples into rather different forms.

Gallentia, having a warm, wet environment in many places promoted, or in some places, mandated, clothing styles that exposed much of the skin, or indeed, almost all of the skin, and also promoted a degree of frivolity, as resources were plentiful.

Home, having a much cooler climate, meant that exposing the skin was only done in very private settings, or as a result of hypothermic delusion. The less productive agriculture of the time, also meant that frivolity in effort or consumption was also greatly frowned upon. Efficiency was the watchword of the Caldari at the time.

This led to greatly differing clothing styles in the two cultures, with the result being that the Gallente saw the Caldari as being overly staid and dour, while the Caldari saw the Gallente as being profligate deviants.

So, it would seem then, that the First Gallente War of Aggression was mostly caused by the mere fact of the different characteristics of the two planets, and that the war was inevitable, due to the vastly differing cultures of the two worlds.

But is that really the case ?

Would history have turned out differently, had the roles been reversed ?

Of course it was inevitable, though it has far more to do with the insipid nature of Gallente culture than to do with anything geographic.

I'd like to think it wasn't inevitable but what do I know? Alot of it was spurred on by one side being hypocritical so I would hope it was the actions of their leadership that led them away from those values they preach. At the same time I'm not an expert on Caldari/Gallante relations and I'm sure there was alot more going on (preemptively for that last sentence: shut up Kim, I'm sure the Gallante did this or that, maybe ate babies, whatever. If there is some reason like economic or some other reason besides the usual "racist Gallante must die tirade" ignore my telling you that. I am actually curious on the reasons or what people think atleast. Don't want to fall into the usual "propaganda" for both sides.)

Caldari wanted to choose their own freedom and it was too much for Gallente.
Gallente ships bringing their freedom and happines to Caldari Prime. Just because some bunch of provocateurs blowed up a Gallente city block underwater, because Gallente was not able to make anything to appease Caldari people, because Gallente freedom is an empty phrase, its only a chaos contained in a Federation. Their ways parted because they were different.

Yeah, it took us a while to realize people have a right to live in whatever primitive repressive societies they've been culturally conditioned to accept. "Freedom" isn't what the Caldari fought to keep. They had that. The Caldari fought to subjugate themselves to Megacorporations.

Tragically, many Gallente lives were sacrificed in the vain defense of Caldari freedom.

Fun fact, Kimmy: Order is the highest form of Chaos.

Collective chaos or personal chaos, it doesn't matter. Same dehumanizing concept, that turns peoples into boundless animals, without love, friendship, loyalty, honor, morals and laws.

What gallente society doesn't allow, it is called independence. And this is what the State cultivates. We have earned our independence from Gallente with weapons in arms. And each our corporation within the State is independent of each other.

I'm Gallente and I refuse to eat snails....

You are one of those Gallente who aren't trying to get me to do things in the name of liberty.

They do not actually order you to eat the damned things but they do pressure you into eating it, with suggestions and passive-aggressive statements. And they will be offended about it if you refuse to bend.

It's not that they are denying my freedom to dissent, it's that they are being really annoying about the whole thing.