Eija-Riitta Veitonen
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Posted - 2013.05.31 23:17:00 -
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Darvaleth Sigma wrote:The two combinations that clearly can't be reconciled are Caldari & Gallente, and Amarr & Minmatar. An alliance between either would be a betrayal for the two Empires that fought to be independent.
However, as a loyal citizen of the Caldari State and an active militia-capsuleer, I believe our alliance with the Amarr is a dangerous one. While we weren't slaves like the Minmatar, the Amarr will always see us as a breakaway, no matter how powerful a breakaway we have become. Unless we can conclusively seize control of the Caldari-Gallente militia warzone and push the megacorporations into formalising direct sovereignty over the captured systems, I fear we will remain the significantly weaker partner of our alliance with the Amarr. If the Amarrians truly wanted to, they could cease hostility with the Minmatar and Gallente and crush the State, and I don't feel comfortable knowing that possibility exists.
What can the State do about this? Covert support of the militia. Deniable ops, training of kill-squads, lending resources. With even the tiniest fraction of Empire support the State could sweep the militia warzone, and establishing direct control over so many systems would surely secure our future as an equal of the Amarr, regardless of whether the alliance holds. Also being loyal (to some extent) to the State and having some knowledge on Amarr I can see the Caldari-Amarr alliance is beneficial to both parties. First of all, i just can't even imagine Amarr and Minmatar agreeing to ceasing hostilities without amarr giving up on all the Minmatar slaves still remaining within the empire, and i certainly doubt Amarr as a whole would ever agree to that. Secondly, Amarr have had some past disagreements with the Gallente, some of those have resulted in border skirmishes and even capital/supercapital deployments, though the only one of those i can currently remember was made by a rogue element from within the Empire and not by an Imperial order. Thus, out of the three other factions, Caldari seem to be the best option for an alliance from Amarrian standpoint, in my opinion. And there are more unifying points between Caldari and the Amarr. One more thing, the State Navy has the technology, but lacks in numbers, whereas Imperial Navy is the exact opposite - it has the numbers, but is somewhat held back on the technology in overall. I'd say it's a match made in heaven, at least as I see it.
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