I was returning from deployment the other day, sitting there bored on a shuttle. I decided I would catch up on the news and activated my vid screen and saw some reports about Tibus Heth and some sort of standoff.

I find it interesting that the leader of an entire people would attack a relatively unimportant station. That would be like my own empress robbing a Quafe Station. Though I'm sure they put enough addictive chemicals in their drinks for people to actually want to, for someone to actually do it?

What a strange race of people they are, I doubt their empire will last much longer. If the Amarr people were such an impulsive and unthinking race of barbarians like them I am sure we would have died out long ago.

Tonight I will add a new line to my prayers to God. Thank you for blessing your people with insightful leadership, we are forever at your mercy and in your service. In your name I am whole.

My dear friend you need to look at these actions through a different lenses the caldari are in state of cold civil war. The mega corps have kicked him from power. He is now a scared mortal man. As the Lord saw fit that he can not join the ranks of the immortals and as historys has shown us that judgement was indeed wise

I would not say they are weak. They simply lack Faith in anything and thus was easily lead astray by the first man who gave them hope of bettering their lives. As without Faith how are the lost going to know their place in universe and thus find the peace we all seek

Sirs, respectfully, you have set yourselves up a bit of an echo chamber here.

Incidentally, the Caldari do have their own religion, the Way of the Winds, an animistic faith with elements of ancestor worship, compatible with those of the Intaki and of the Achura.

Though many of my people would disagree, all roads of faith lead to God. For He is, even if you take Him to be one of your ancestors or a spirit.

Your inability to grasp the spirit of the Caldari rests on two failures. The first is that you feel there is one united Caldari State to begin with. Our nation has endured sectionalist and secessionist based warfare through the ages, and every time the banner of the Caldari has come out on top. We aren't a race of sheep. We are no flock guided by a monarchist hand. We are individuals all capable of acting towards our own ends and goals, and dispite that the spirit of the Caldari and our deep seated values of patriotism and meritocracy hold us together under one flag. That truth, while deviding us at times, makes us all the more powerful when we find an issue to unite on. That truth is what makes us incompatable with your faith. We will never become drones to a government that insists on sheparding us by force, for as long as there are spirits at our backs and a Cold Wind in our hearts we shall always fight to preserve our power as individuals who bow to no force, be it federal, empirical, or the dictatorship of Heth.

With that in mind, your second failure is in honestly believing that Heth still controls the hearts and minds of those within the State. As each day goes by more and more disenfranchized Caldari find themselves turning towards alternate solutions in government. Even without the intervention of outside merchenary groups, the corperations are not going to allow Heth to run wild much longer. It is bad for business.

Don't mistake our pride for xenophobia Ryeon-haani. I don't deny that Caldari insist on remaining Caldari, but that spawns from a longstanding pride in who we are as a people. Legally, I a Civire. My father fought some time ago in the Waschi Uprising as a logistical officer under Mordu. My mother, as she soon became, was an Intaki refugee from that conflict. As a result, my family has seen both sides of Caldari superiority. We have been within and without.

In time however I came to understand the State and why we fight. You insist that corperate structure breeds unity, but you forget that capitalism is spawned off the right of individual liberties and expansion of power through your own means. When I stopped identifying with my Intaki heritage I was able to finally exercise my citizenship within the State. The truth is, to be Caldri is as simple as accepting yourself as Caldari and to fully embracethe culture and heiian towards your fellow citizens.

Which comes the question, are we Caldari united or devided? It is a mobius strip. Just as my family, we are within and without. I don't expect an outsider to grasp the concept honestly. I suppose we Caldari are a strange race.

Hmm.. You tell me that I have no idea what happened, but you are a Caldari.

Imagine this, the Empress of my empire decides she wants to attack a location in our enemies' space. She takes a small band of warriors and then leads them directly against a small outpost that our faction already owns in an attempt to conquer the station that we already own and then our own navy attacks and captures her.

This would be considered insanity.

Any sane person, with half a brain, would just use the assets they already own. Our empress leads but she is not the full final authority, because our empire is to big, but she would reach out to the heirs and the holders and motivate them to take the Truth Path of the Missionary, then she would simply move our great and blessed army to the base in question and use it as a staging ground. There would be no need for the leader of my people to work in secret, no need for her to capture a base she already technically owns.

Since you are a Caldari, I will say again, that your empire will not last and your people will be swept away from their ignorant ways and converted into the True Religion. It bodes well for you that you are currently our allies, that will make the transistion period much smoother.

Your inability to grasp the spirit of the Caldari rests on two failures. The first is that you feel there is one united Caldari State to begin with. Our nation has endured sectionalist and secessionist based warfare through the ages, and every time the banner of the Caldari has come out on top. We aren't a race of sheep. We are no flock guided by a monarchist hand. We are individuals all capable of acting towards our own ends and goals, and dispite that the spirit of the Caldari and our deep seated values of patriotism and meritocracy hold us together under one flag. That truth, while deviding us at times, makes us all the more powerful when we find an issue to unite on. That truth is what makes us incompatable with your faith. We will never become drones to a government that insists on sheparding us by force, for as long as there are spirits at our backs and a Cold Wind in our hearts we shall always fight to preserve our power as individuals who bow to no force, be it federal, empirical, or the dictatorship of Heth.

With that in mind, your second failure is in honestly believing that Heth still controls the hearts and minds of those within the State. As each day goes by more and more disenfranchized Caldari find themselves turning towards alternate solutions in government. Even without the intervention of outside merchenary groups, the corperations are not going to allow Heth to run wild much longer. It is bad for business.

What I fail to understand is where you animosity towards the Amarr Empire stems from. They have ever been our steadfast allies and friends in need. We have a shared people in the Khanid who seek the unity of both empires.

How could you treat out imperial friends with such mistrust and slander their good name with acidic words of mistrust hidden behind the sweeter words of Caldari pride?

With respect, Mr. Ouryon, to both yourself and to Mr. Fae-- and recognizing, of course, that Mr. Fae is fully capable of speaking for himself-- it appears that it is precisely Caldari pride that inspires Mr. Fae's words.

The Caldari have long resented and resisted outside attempts to influence them, however well-intentioned. Some of what the Amarr who spoke here said was, perhaps not intentionally, inconsiderate of the State's independence. To say that the Caldari are spiky about such things is a bit of an understatement.

To put it another way, Mr. Fae spoke as an offended Civire-- culturally plain-spoken and aggressive-- in response to loose talk from a foreign party. Would you expect him to respond with caution?

A half breed is not true Civre. Pure Blooded Caldari scoff at this ones attempts at nationalism.