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Andreus Ixiris
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Posted - 2013.03.23 19:11:00 -
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Samira Kernher wrote:The State benefits from a strong Empire, just as the Empire benefits from a strong State.
Both of these are true only as long as the State remains in direct competition with the Gallente.
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Andreus Ixiris
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Posted - 2013.03.23 19:45:00 -
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Samira Kernher wrote:No. The State and the Empire are close in other areas. State-Kingdom relations are very high. The State is the Empire's primary trading partner for our minerals. The Empire invested in the State, and the State in return offered schooling for those of us emancipated five years ago. There is also our joint research projects.
You do realise that this situation persists almost entirely because the Empire provides a counterbalance to the Federation, right? The State has almost nothing in common with the Empire - honestly, it has a lot more in common with the Minmatar Republic than anyone else.
Like I said - to understand the Caldari-Amarr alliance, you need to grasp the balance of power in this cluster. The alliance exists out of pragmatism, not friendship.
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Andreus Ixiris
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Posted - 2013.03.24 11:16:00 -
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Diana Kim wrote:If you are talking about lowsec warzone campaign, Nenna will fall as soon as we recieve orders to make it fall.
WRONG. Add "severely mentally handicapped" to the "nasal 12-year-old loser" description Anslo gave you earlier.
Bloody Ronin Syndicate was under orders to capture Nennamaila for nearly a month, and all they had to show for it was a lot of deaths to pirates and a system that never even went to 50% contestation. Not only that, but the highly illegal tactics used by one of their command staff got him arrested and imprisoned by CONCORD. After getting their little tails thoroughly whipped by the defence fleet, greg01 ordered a full retreat to Yvangier. Ev0ke's campaign against Eha ended in spectacular failure as well.
Your militia is being carried on the backs of Pyre-Falcon and pretty much no-one else. When Ev0ke finally crumble to their end (which isn't all that far off) and Pyre-Falcon inevitably get bored of shoring up your militia's staggering inadequacies (and they will, trust me - they talk a good game about duty to the State, but like I-RED's militia wing and the other Duty before them, they will eventually get bored of having to put up with people like you) you will have no-one to support you.
Nennamaila is going to need better people than you to capture it.
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Andreus Ixiris
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Posted - 2013.03.25 08:13:00 -
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Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:I am not a woman of empty rhetoric and false affectations of patriotic duty. I know my task and I shall fulfill it for my love of my people, my nation and my State means that never can I abandon them and willingly shall I sacrifice with blood, bear whatever burdens of guilt duty demands and where I am judged upon the merits of my deeds and not words alone.
Please don't mistake me. The prediction that you'll get bored of the militia wasn't an insult. It's just an inevitability.
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Andreus Ixiris
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Posted - 2013.03.29 01:50:00 -
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Pieter Tuulinen wrote:This again. The ability to settle Caldari Prime so long as we cease to be Caldari is no ability at all. It's certainly not a concession of anything at all.
It's better than a goddamn war. I'm sorry, Pieter, but sometimes people on both sides of this argument forget that never was there such a thing as a good war nor such a thing as a bad peace, and that rarely enough can there be a perfect solution to any problem. No, I don't think Caldari Prime not being under genuine State governance is a perfect state of affairs but it's better than... this. It's better than a meaningless war killing tens of thousands every day. It's better than a nine-kilometre chunk of burning metal crashing into a planet. It's better than two national governments whose stability the people rely upon s****ing themselves inside out.
What we had before wasn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it was better than what we've had for the past five years. It's made monsters out of all of us, and for what? Intaki Prime is more important to me than most people could possibly imagine but it'd never be worth all the horrors I've seen in the past half-decade.
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Andreus Ixiris
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Posted - 2013.03.29 11:34:00 -
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Scherezad wrote:For clarification, sir,
The Caldari lived as exiles for centuries while the Gallente repopulated their conquered homelands.
The Gallente lived much as they always have for five years while the Caldari retook their homelands.
It is your statement that the former is a better situation than the latter?
My statement is that it's better than a ******* war.
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