Now here’s a thought.
There is a metaphor, for being in a state of facing an unwelcome situation, where one is said to be: “staring into the abyss”.
Now then, the Triglavians live in the abyss. Do they have a similar but reversed metaphor, where they “stare out of the abyss” ?
I do have a very tentative theory that they might be agoraphobic, not in the sense of open spaces but of open skies. It seems like there must be another word for that.
Is there a single word or Amarrian term for a sky full of stars? Nox caelo … hm. Noxcaelophobia? No.
Siderephobia?
Are they red?
If people guess correctly and I tell them, then Sahara will know. 
Fair enough.
Hah.
I’m going to go with…
…It’s too goddamn hot to wear socks, so you aren’t. 
Why would it be hot in a climate-controlled keepstar, aboard my climate-controlled Hel?
Hrm.
Been spending too much time in my Leshak, it appears.
Funny, mine doesn’t have any overheating problems… neither do my Nergal, Rodiva, Zarm, or Drek. You should get that checked out.
Clearly you don’t shoot enough with yours. 
as I recall, socks are one of the reasons the Federation must be destroyed. Or maybe it was somewhere else. Anyway, somewhere was to be condemned for immorality, because of how they wore socks. Or the order in which socks were applied to the body. Or something.
BLUE AND WHITE STRIPES !
[Moved here]
Right. You ran away in an orderly manner. You still ran away. And the Feds still held Caldari Prime, uncontested, with your people doing nothing about anything they did there, for centuries.
Elements of it. Others, you left behind. As you, yourself have said:
When you left, you weren’t an interstellar power. Which means you developed a way of life—a culture—that differs from what came before. That means you left the old ways behind to develop the new ones. You can’t have it both ways: either your way of life right now is totally the same as it was before your people became an interstellar power, or you left that way of life behind.
No, it’s just what you’ve been raised to cling to so tightly that you can’t even acknowledge that you are saying something that demonstrates that it simply isn’t true.
Here, this is simple:
If (2) is true, then the megacorporate Caldari cannot have been unwilling to leave their way of life behind, simply because they did leave it behind.
Ah, so the Achurans, despite being Caldari citizens, are not real Caldari, and for an Achuran to act like a Caldari, or claim to be Caldari, would be undesirable? So, do you feel Diana Kim is some kind of traitor to her native Achuran culture?
Thank you.
Is it intentional that it sounds like “I Scream Audit Office?”
While that is delightful pun, I am afraid it is not intentional; it does not even work that way in the original Standard Matari.
The old ways once stretched across the planet, it seems disingenuous to position those who stayed as the inheritors of those ways, based on their survival in a handful of settlements in the Kaalakiota peaks–not of course that Caldari culture is mine to speak for.
The point, rather, is that those who left still changed their ways, as even Ms. Tereven cites. Thus, they cannot have left the planet to avoid changing their ways. Just doesn’t work.
‘I splattered his brains on the wall to make sure he wouldn’t die.’
It doesn’t seem to me like a very useful competition anyway. The Raata have stayed perhaps more true to the ways of their ancestors, but they live broadly at the sufferance of others who could quickly silence them if they had the stomach for such things (we Achura can maybe relate). The Caldari of the State have changed more. Seeking power, for whatever purpose, changes people. This isn’t news. But also, and largely as a result, they exercise more autonomy as a nation and culture.
Which is to be preferred is a judgment call. And it’s one that, respectfully, no outsider gets to make for us, Arrendis.
And it’s one I’m pointedly not making. In fact…
Which arises because this is all about the comparison with…
and
because…
Gee, it looks like it’s the Caldari making the judgment call about a group’s decision on which parts of their heritage to cling to.
I’m simply saying that insisting ‘We left to keep our culture’, when a) the folks who stayed don’t seem to have lost it, and b) the folks who left have developed a new way of life, and thus, a new culture… isn’t true.
But thanks for lecturing me about the point I’m not making. And, in fact, one I’m telling an outsider she has no right to make about where it concerns members of my Tribe.
Okay.
So … about this.
Ms. Tereven, innocently I think, misunderstands a little the way immigration works in Caldari culture. Those who wish to join are broadly welcomed-- if they truly join. (There’s often a lot of scrutiny and skepticism about this.) In order to do so, they must completely abandon their original cultures, becoming fully Caldari in all but blood. There are places where the Caldari have encouraged this, like the cities of Achura. Most who are Achura by blood are in fact cultural Caldari.
Outside of the Saisio system, this is rare in practice, hence probably Ms. Tereven’s slight misunderstanding.
Those (especially indigenous peoples) who reside within the State but do not join the Caldari are given the option to become clients to the State. Those who accept are extended a form of protected status but are expected to live apart from the Caldari. This is the situation for the rural Achura. Those who decline are treated like the Dissociated, having no legal rights within the State.
Ms. Kim is of mixed blood, but as I understand it State-raised, steeped in Caldari culture. As a proper Caldari citizen, her blood officially makes no difference one way or the other; she is, to all intents and purposes, Caldari. (Just, neither Deteis nor Civire and maybe a bit of a puzzle for corporate matchmakers unless she returns to Saisio.)