# Happy Secession Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Intergalactic Summit\ **Created:** [November 21, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/happy-secession-day/201920 "2019-11-21T11:52:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![Rinai\_Vero](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rinai_vero/32/390870_2.png) [@Rinai\_Vero](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rinai_Vero)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/happy-secession-day/201920/15 "2019-11-22T04:08:00Z")
> [@Diana\_Kim](#): > > Early morning today Caldari State forces led by our alliance with help of numerous allies have defeated Gallente capsuleer battleship fleet with their “Pen is out” capital batphone! It was quite a battle, and Gallente losses were indeed severe. However, it is deeply ironic that you would celebrate that victory in the context of “independence” considering that among your “allies” were [over double your fleet’s number](https://br.inyour.space/?s=45318&b=8882100&e=150&t=uvrauvfaaqaaaaqarber) of pilots from the Federation Uprising alliance. How shameful that avowed Caldari State loyalists must call upon disgraced Gallente mercenaries to defend their assets in Black Rise. Perhaps while you are celebrating secession from the Federation, Templis might consider severing its role as a clearly inferior partner to FedUP? At any rate, I apologize to the rest of my cousins in the State that Commander Kim’s obsession with my compatriots has been interjected into your collective celebration of national determination. Perhaps in the future there will come a time when such celebrations are not so tinged with bitterness and hostility. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/happy-secession-day/201920)._