Intergalactic Summit

I'm happy to hear things are going well. All things considered that is.

I am highly disappointed with your decision, Mr. Tuulinen. You cover these people with shame, repeating the exodus. We came to Caldari Prime not for picnic, we came here to STAY, and what you do - plays only for Gallente hands. And they are who wanted to "Exterminate all Caldari" on Caldari Prime.

It is our duty to Protect Caldari people and their homes, not to relocate them.

We prefer to die as heroes like Heth and Tovil-Toba instead of living as slaves like Matari.

Glory to the State!

These people are new Citizens, Diana. They are not trained or armed for the fight. They would be nothing more than collateral damage, should they remain in harms way.

Lifted out they represent ENTIRE BLOODLINES that have been lost to the State and are now recovered. I imagine that this represents part of the reason that State Megacorps have been so keen to offer them a place. In any case, I freely accept any dishonour that the people of the State feel is my due for removing non-combatants from a potential warzone.

Well, that is why I am fond of you Pieter, you’re a plain speaker.

Now I know here is where normally folks expect and perhaps I should make a declaration regarding how we all hope that a ‘war’ and the desolation it brings is avoided. With some nice platitudes about brotherly love and eternal peace thrown in for effect.

Well, I can’t.

But I can say that should the ‘absolute’ eventuality occur and the situation go in 'our' favor, I hope you are wrong and that the Federation would deal with the situation in as humane a manner as such a dire contingency would allow.


I understand.

There simply isn’t any trust left in the well is there.

I didn't expect that.

But yes republics are the collective will of their people, slow to anger, slow to forgive and easy to manipulate.

But I understand the sentiment.

To be honest, I couldn't bare to watch, though I suppose I should have. "The Great Traitor"... for me, it's the screams I remember.

Be well, Pieter.

I sort of disagree with your estimation of trust to the Federation as post-Highlander and now.

Before the Highlander we had a treaty with Federation, that Caldari Prime is transferred to Caldari State and is not our sovereign territory.

Post-Highlander? It was one of Federation largest of atrocities and their violation of the treaty. They have shown that they can't be trusted even in truces.

Now? I don't see how now situation is different. They are still these warmongering bigots who can break the treaty at any time, just we do what we had to do way earlier to ensure security of the State from them.

So, my point is, that drop of trust to the Federation after Highlander was way more deeper than after the current events.


The Federation aggression is inevitable. It could be Caldari Prime, it could be Kyonoke infection to our world, or invasion to any of our industrial areas. We are reinforcing the border, but I think we should reinforce defenses around Caldari Prime as well, since this planet currently is "easy picking" for them. Just with our fleet on alert I think that now in case of Federal attack on Caldari Prime we will be ready to fight them back and send our fleets to fight them out from there way better than after post-Highlander, when this planet was mostly vulnerable.

I meant dropping by to pick up the detachment and all their equipment and disassembled pad materials after the completion of the extraction. Cabbing them back home and all that.

They have to stick around to maintain the pads while the extraction is still underway, as the integrity of the pads is their responsibility. Not to mention they also have to disassemble the pads for use in another field once the extraction is completed. Maybe send me a message once the extraction is completed?

I suppose I will have to decant, get a few people and go chauffer them back to transport then.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they were retrieved drunk. It is pretty customary for the Prospector ice mining expedition team to spend the off-shift hours hurdling around a heated long-table plying their hobbies while playing a game of 'pass the vodka'.

If anything, they are probably trying to get accustomed to the concept of a -40 to -70 centigrades environment where it isn't dark or bright all day long for half the year.

The Kyonoke situation appears to have neatly drowned out calls for war in both the State and the Federation. I can't say the picture looks promising from a long term perspective, but at the very least things have returned to the wary status quo ante.

I will be discontinuing the evacuation protocol. During the thirty-eight days of the evacuation we managed to move 316,400 people from Caldari Prime - I now have a heightened respect for what my ancestors achieved, under bombardment, no less! The remaining 398,000 new citizens who have expressed a preference to leave Caldari Prime will be rotated out using commercial passenger flights, their new start courtesy of the Tuulinen Foundation and our sponsors back home.

What will NOT be happening is the completion of the Yanala Arcology. It has become abundantly clear to me that the current arrangement is most unsuitable for large investments and construction projects. Whatever is accomplished on the surface of Caldari Prime is held hostage to the whims of whichever of the political parties on either side of the line is LEAST stable.

I will be offering the facility at twenty floors, complete with the infrastructure piece of the project to the civilian government of the city for office space. Whilst providing for the needs of the citizens of Arcurio, both Caldari and Gallente, it will make a neat office building set in some truly lovely landscaped gardens.

Once the Foundation has rallied from the loss of so major a project, I will turn my attention back within the borders of the State proper, where the things that I build can rise and prevail in a more stable and calm environment. The Foundation will not be returning to Caldari Prime until it becomes something more than a running sore in the flank of our State.

I would like to thank our Corporate Sponsors and the many capsuleers who contributed their time and resources to this project. You are all the kinds of people needed for true peace to prosper in this Cluster and I hope we find some way to make your dreams a reality, in the future. For now? I return to my people.