I knew the going-ons in Placid would have serious effects on the cluster as a whole, but these two bits are most unfortunate.
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Itâs sold out but Iâm sure someone in your position can get hold of tickets for her gig in Poitot (highly secure, naturally).
Oh, Iâm not worried about being able to get tickets to an event like that. Itâs somewhat irresponsible for me to go to something like a concert across the cluster out in Syndicate. Iâm too obvious a target.
I just think her music is somewhat catchy, lyrics occasionally aside.
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I havenât been to a live venue in a very long time. What type of performance is it?
Her music draws on the Samang tradition of the high Akat, which is famous for the Gamphu.
She is a versatile performer so you never know quite what to expect but her stage shows tend to avoid extravagance and play on her audienceâs nostalgia for folk tradition.
"âWere the Federal Senators for the Intaki system consulted before the invasion? Yes. Did we consent to the action? Yes, with some misgivings, simply to see our people freed from constant warfare under the absurd militia system. But did we agree to a permanent Federal military presence? No, we did not.â
Now, pray tell, how does this moron expect these systems to stay out of the conflict without considerable military protection? To my knowledge the CEMWPA hasnât been renegotiated - and considering the recent bickering weâve read about, possibly never will be - so these systems are still legally âfree gameâ if the Federation forces securing them leave.
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It is the 11th Anniversary of my Daughterâs Conception.
Senator Bellaron is the last person Iâd expect to see standing up for Statesâ rights. Call me a cynic but his critique is probably less to do with the impracticalities that you point out than it is with seizing an opportunity to impress a significant number of local voters. Remember, every year, one fifth of the Senate is up for election.
Fastest and second fastest routes from Yulai to Poitot go through Placid. The fastest option goes through Villore itself (the capital). The second fastest goes through Viriette (now heavily militarized). Neither is a great option for diplomats worried about the Federationâs commitment to not breaching its international agreements.
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Iâm just operating on the wording that theyâre being transported âfromâ Placid and not âthroughâ Placid. Your interpretation is equally valid.
An alternative is that this was the team in Placid negotiating the terms of the security franchise with the Intaki Assembly but they havenât been heard of for some time now.
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Plenty of other roles to fill in that pursuit.
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Gotta ask. Do they do soapy ship cleans?
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Iâm sure that can be arranged.
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Years spent in Summit have convinced me that Gallenteans arenât well versed in questions of basic biology and anatomy.
I am surprised how they donât confuse legs with arms.
So, Mr. Antolliere? This is something worth understanding when dealing with the Caldari: they donât see any contradiction here.
Civire and Deteis have been close as kin (without very often actually being kin) since before the Raata Empire. Thereâs even a foundational myth on this subject: Cold Wind, in which fighting between the two bloodlines is stopped by literal divine intervention.
They donât mix (or, people being people, try to discourage it as a matter of policy), but they donât see each other as outsiders, and âdivided by bloodlineâ is one of the only ways Caldari donât normally compete.
(Actually the main way Caldari run into discrimination despite the meritocracy is being of mixed blood. Pretty sure Iâd never have been accepted into the SWA if they hadnât been really eager to churn out as many eggers as possible.)
This even extends to a more limited degree to the Achura; our society was still in our iron age when they found us, but they saw enough of themselves in our culture and faith to recognize us as, if you like, poor cousins.
To a degree (and ignoring the corporations) you can think of the State as a single, great manor containing two distinct families that nevertheless live together closely, plus the Achura as long-term residents of the guest house.
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Do they see enough of themselves in Intaki culture to ârecogniseâ it though? I appreciate that there is variation but also that, as a general rule, the authorities responsible for Intaki citizens who wish to retain their identity must constantly act to ensure they are not victims of persecution and Intaki immigrants usually fail to integrate and swiftly fall to the fringes of State society.
I have yet to see a Caldari commentator honestly acknowledge the challenges Intaki people (citizens or immigrants) face in the State.
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Hm. Well, really itâs pretty challenging for anybody immigrating in.
The basic structure goes like this: Caldari do not really require anybody to become Caldari unless living among the Caldari is what theyâre trying to do, and if theyâre trying to do that theyâre expected to go all-in-- that is, full adoption of Caldari culture, including language, habits, diet, marriage customs, religion, no exceptions (unless youâre a Khanid Kingdom expat in which case you can practice the Amarrian faith in private).
That applies to basically anybody who wants to live in a Caldari community, full-stop. If youâre Intaki and you want to live among the Caldari, theyâll expect you to be Caldari and like it. Youâll have an integration officer assigned to your case, whose duty is to make sure you do it âright.â If you have private quarters, the contents of your drawers, cabinets, and refrigerator will be checked. This will continue until the authorities are satistfied that youâre Caldari in all but literal blood. Failing to integrate generally means being asked to either join another (âclientâ) community or leave the State.
Other communities are permitted to be âother communities,â but theyâre not allowed to mingle. They also need to decide whether to accept âclientâ status to the State. Clients can trade with the Caldari and enjoy protections under law; theyâre not supposed to be harmed or meddled with, and tend to have some autonomy and, especially, broad cultural latitude to live as they see fit as long as they keep to themselves. Theyâre apt to be swiftly relocated if the Caldari find a vein of something worth digging for under their community, though.
Those who donât accept âclientâ status have basically declared themselves nonentities and have no standing or status within the State. Itâs like deciding not to legally be a person. Outcomes vary, ranging from tolerance and trade to âjust stay out of our wayâ to massacre.
(The Caldari concern themselves with the good of their own people and their clients; âhuman rightsâ arenât really a thing.)
Now, most client communities are those of planetary native populations, as with Achura, but sometimes outsiders, like the Intaki, are invited in to form such communities. As the Waschii uprising showed, such communities arenât necessarily 100% safe from extremists, but keep in mind thatâs like running into U-NATs in the Federation-- not (usually) state actors, but a hateful extreme ethno-nationalist offshoot: the Templis Dragonaurs, who (as Waschii also demonstrated) will wage war against the State itself to avoid having to live next to even a very honored client community.
The status of rural Achura is that of a client state acknowledged by the Caldari Wayists as kindred-in-spirit. Urban Achura have invariably adopted Caldari culture and identity, and therefore form a third Caldari bloodline nearly unique to SuVee corporate territory.
I donât think the Intaki have such a religious ⌠dictum, dogma, whatever ⌠acknowledging their similarity, but many among them have been staunch allies against the Federation. So theyâre honored for other reasons. Take for example Morduâs Legion, which has such special status within the State that career Legion veterans, whatever their origins, are offered Caldari citizenship upon retirement (though Iâd expect that to still come with some, er, cultural assumptions).
If I remember, to this day the majority of Morduâs Legionnaires are Intaki.
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Thank you for being so frank and clear. Itâs refreshing.
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I appreciate the clarification, I learned quite a few things.
I wasnât disparaging the Caldari for the way in which they live, they are free to define themselves however they wish.
My point was that the original author claimed that being âGallenteâ meant nothing because anyone can âbe Gallenteâ and that the Federation populous had become this amorphous blob of people indistinguishable from one another which is not true. Just as he himself identifies simultaneously as Caldari and Intaki, so too do people in the Federation keep their heritage and culture distinct even while identifying with the Gallente ideals within the Federation.