Jacques Cayton II wrote:Arkena Wyrnspire wrote:Oh hey, the terrorist state is attempting to organise again. Keyword attempting.
Tell me why you fight? Don't lie and say for freedom. If you truly fought for freedom you'd allow the Caldari to live the way they want without oppression. You brought the terrorist cult templis dragonaors to your front door by keeping caldari prime. So whom and why do you really fight the Caldari? Is it hate? Greed? Because the state only wants 2 things from the Federation and thats caldari prime, and peace.
The Caldari state has never wanted peace.
Every eruption of this bloody conflict has been catalysed by the Caldari.
Once upon a time, the Gallente and Caldari lived side by side in peace. After the Gallente had brought the Caldari through a technological uplift, they became a founding member of what would eventually become the Federation.
Fast forward quite a bit of time and it turns out that the Caldari are disgruntled with the Federation. Why? They don't have as big a population as other members of the democratic Federation, so they don't get as much of a seat.
In their search for power, they begin building colonies in secret. Many of them. An entire empire, built in secrecy from the rest of the Federation.
Then another ship stumbles across a Caldari military installation, and pandemonium.
What do you expect people to think of you when they discover you've been building a military in secret?
What do you expect them to do when you secede from a previously peaceful and prosperous relationship and raze a city after they discover you've built a military in secret?
The Caldari state has always wanted
power.
The Federation was content to sit behind Tripwire and leave the Caldari alone, leading to an uneasy peace for hundreds of years.
Then the Caldari broke it as they jumped supercapitals in and the most recent incarnation of the war broke out as they invaded hundreds of star systems and occupied a world with a majority Gallente population that had been Gallentean for two hundred years.
Did you expect respect for your ancestral homeworld? Hypocrisy. You
auctioned the ancestral homeworld of the Intaki, after brutally occupying it.
So let me ask you, you who would claim to want peace. What is it that drives the State? Hate? Greed? It is both of those things.
I fight for the Federation because I don't want to let a terrorist state have their way with my people. You mock our freedoms while you slave away under megacorporations, unwilling to see that the freedom we have is far greater than that in any other empire. Ours is the most diverse and free population in New Eden. We are not the Amarrians, who use slaves. We are not the Caldari, who are corporate slaves. We bankroll the Minmatar Republic because we believe people should be free to choose for themselves.
The Federation does not demand mandatory military service of its people. It does not throw them away as numbers on a spreadsheet.
It asks them, and they have a choice.
My choice is to continue protecting those who cannot protect themselves.