Malcolm Khross wrote:Caldari Prime will forever be the ancestral home of the Caldari people. We have made mistakes and we have learned from them, this will be no different.
Perhaps Ishukone sets an important precedent with diplomacy in how we could achieve our end goal. We must ask ourselves, if our end goal is to reclaim our home world, why would be averse to doing so through diplomacy? We have a measure of pride that would prevent us from kneeling and begging and I would never condone such activity. But honest diplomacy? There is a way to obtain what is important, our home back.
If our end goal is the punishment of the Gallente and to deal to them a black eye as they have done to us, then can we not be honest enough to state that as our end goal rather than claiming our end goal is reclaiming home?
To the original post, many of us would give and do nearly anything to see Caldari Prime once again be home to the Caldari and a Caldari populace. Simply "giving it up" is not an option.
Mr Khross, you are one of the Caldari who I respect the most in this conflict.
While a stauch defender of your people you have the wisdom to see through the mass of barbarity and insult thrown about by both your peers and the gallente.
I saw a quote recently that encapsulates this entire conflict.
Caldari Prime is the homeworld of the Caldari people.
New Caldari is the homeworld of the Caldari state.
It would seem that these two things, especially in recent years, are no longer one and the same.
the inverse is also true, Gallente prime is not the seat of power for the Federation, that lies in the nearby system of Villore.
If it was not for this war, the people of Caldari would be able to visit or even stay upon the planet in question. Even given that it resides within Federation space. The problem, especially in the last 5 years is simply one of sovereignty. Not exactly even of the planet but of the space surrounding the planet.
It has been shown that even under Federate control, the people of Caldari Prime lived in a remarkably Caldari way. The local customs of the Caldari people were created over generations as survival traits for a harsh and unforgiving world. These traits are picked up by settlers from many backgrounds, or the settlers do not survive. This is the beauty of your world. It hones people into survivors.
So. In the end, this conflict can be boiled down to pride. Neither side wishes to have the other in control of the space surrounding Caldari Prime. Nor are they willing to have it set to a neutral party.
The reality of the situation though is this, The system is within Federation space, Any attempt to force Caldari sovereignty over the space surrounding Caldari prime is likely to result in more debris falling upon your home.
It is time to try something else. Free access to the planet could be arranged, a separate government could be negotiated, much like the intaki assembly, yes, they would be answerable to the Federation senate, but they could be Caldari people, living upon their homeworld and working towards the interests of the planet Caldari Prime.
The State and Federation will likely never see eye to eye on this or many other matters, but that does not mean that the people of Caldari Prime should have no voice. At the moment, they are being used as nothing more than a bargaining chip, and that MUST stop.
Perhaps this outsider's perspective on the matter is skewed. Perhaps there can be no hope.
But i do firmly believe that given the right to self government, even if as a part of the federation and not the state, the people of Caldari Prime would be better served than they have been these past few years.