You would all be wise not to confuse the mercenary capsuleer side show that is the empyrean war with an actual conflict between empires.

Although I've a feeling the differences will become increasingly apparent soon enough.

As it stands you lot can't even mount a credible attempt at taking Nennamaila, much less assault the Federation Core Worlds. Not that reality is of much importance in the galaxy you're living in.

If you are talking about lowsec warzone campaign, Nenna will fall as soon as we recieve orders to make it fall.

Nennamaila is going to need better people than you to capture it.

If you are talking about lowsec warzone campaign, Nenna will fall as soon as we recieve orders to make it fall. So far I don't know any strategically important targets in Nenn. That's why we have other targets, which I cannot call for obvious reasons.

I have some words of advice for my fellow Caldari, and for the State itself after yesterday's events - let Caldari Prime go.

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

You would all be wise not to confuse the mercenary capsuleer side show that is the empyrean war with an actual conflict between empires.

Although I've a feeling the differences will become increasingly apparent soon enough.

Do you really think I tremble in fear and despair that the FDU by any honest estimation contains some of the best independent mercenary organizations able to conduct a wide range of small unit actions with absolute proficiency?

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.

I count myself very fortunate in the quality of my enemies. I am proud to be cutting my teeth on my honoured foes.

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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I close my eyes and I find succour from my burdens in those sublime moments of clarity between the flashes of frenzied synesthia as the veins flood with combat stimulants and raw adrenaline; the incandescent flashes of super-heated anti-matter plasma impacting upon hull plating; the ripping apart of internal structures via gravimetric shear effects; the feel of the rapidly expanding corona of a reactor breach upon ones own shields...

There's beauty to be found in those moments. There's an embrace of life, joy and passion the closer one comes to understanding the frailty of existence and our own mortality. The only inevitability here is that violence has shown me what it is to be a capsuleer combatant and I no longer have fear due to the acceptance of my reality where the inexorable advances of time will not weaken me, but rather every day will strengthen my resolve.

I do not seek fame nor glory. I do not require power over others for I have abandoned ambition. I do not have politics for I find them unnecessary. I do not have an ideology or a cause because service to my nation alone is enough.

I am but the weapon and the tool to inflict violence and destruction where it is required according to the principles and ideals I choose. I have chosen the Caldari State, so then shall I seek to sharpen my skills with the blood of its enemies.

One can always wish for peace, hope for it, and fight for it, but I cannot deny that there is a part of me now that will mourn the day I will have to abandon these fields of death and suffering like a disquiet that passes over the heart.

I might admire it for what it is, but talk of worship and dark gods is a bit to melodramatic for me. Even with my typically Gallentean love for the theater.

What happens then when they decide they would like another Caldari planet, let that go as well?

I have some words of advice for my fellow Caldari, and for the State itself after yesterday's events - let Caldari Prime go.

Focusing so much on the homeworld has left you all blind to what that obsession has done to the Caldari people at large. The military and economy of the State is weakening, and what's worse nationalism and xenophobia seem to run rampant within society. Instead of the heads of the Megas competing with each other, driving innovation, progress, and diversity, you've allowed the bulk of Caldari population within the cluster to be placed under the boot of an incompetent dictator.

Let it go. It's simply not worth the effort and sacrifices that are being made on its behalf.

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.

Except that many of us would still not have access to Home - let alone the right to live and raise our families upon it.

That's not much of a solution, is it?

Since when have the Caldari not had access to Caldari Prime? Immigration and expatriate policy is beyond lenient in the Federation.

Since when have the Caldari not had access to Caldari Prime? Immigration and expatriate policy is beyond lenient in the Federation.

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.