Request for CEP Transparency on the Jita Administration Agreement

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@Puok_Kossinen, @Imanima_Hinpas, @Ahtonen_Osmon, @Mens_Reppola, @Haatakan_Oiritsuu, @Alakoni_Ishanoya, @Morimo_Yagala, @Kuikiainen_Onita, @Kuruta_Irio, @Irhes_Angireh

Hi, Anna Dyneaux here. You probably don’t know me, but as a resident of the fine station at Jita, I’d like to request some transparency on the recent decision to hand over the system to CONCORD and EverMore. Apart from Reppola’s very brief comment, which is exactly the kind of non-statement one would expect from Ishukone, and the fact that KK and SuVee opposed the move, we have been told very little of what negotiations transpired behind the scenes to justify such a drastic move. We understand and sympathise with the strain the financial attack has placed the State under, but handing control of the financial centre of the cluster over to an untrustworthy opportunist like Ducasse reeks of exactly the kind of disregard for second-order consequences that characterised the worst decisions of the Heth regime, only worsened by EverMore’s subsequent offer that the IRIS system (by all that is holy do not allow that thing near the Jita financial systems) be granted access to the cluster’s most important financial institutions and systems.

Consider the precedent this decision sets. By relinquishing Jita under the current conditions, you show the cluster that hostile actors can force the State’s hand into critical strategic concessions through the application of economic terrorism. Consider that CONCORD is presently demonstrating its ineptitude at fulfilling its core function, ie the Warpath cyberattack. You trust them to govern Jita after this? And offer EverMore a potential buyout clause for the cluster’s most important station!? What civic mandate does the State recognise Ducasse, the definition of a sleazy Gallentean megacorp CEO, as holding? The Caldari Megas are recognised cluster-wide as being more than just businesses, they embody the indomitable Caldari spirit. EverMore, a private conglomerate, is the very opposite of the ideals the Caldari hold themselves to.

That the station was suffering a humanitarian crisis under the imposed restrictions cannot be disputed, but the solution to this problem is relief corridors and temporary security reforms, not structural handovers with a buyout clause. That very clause is the biggest issue at hand here, you are allowing a (poorly handled) temporary crisis management to become the mechanism used to strip the State of arguably its most important asset.

CONCORD protocols failed, CONCORD experts turned out to be powerless against whoever these hackers are, and its diplomatic response to the crisis has been nothing short of comatose. Warpath showed CONCORD failing its own mandate, badly, and you’re giving them the cluster’s most important system as a sort of consolation prize?

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I can’t agree with you more. This is… I have no idea what is going on in their minds, and this is beyond the pale of, well, any kind of common sense or reason. And to have Gallente security forces patrolling the space lanes? Private security? Where is the Navy?! I am astounded by how blatantly… I don’t even have the WORDS for this. This is just nonsensical.

I was born in Jita, my home is Jita, and Jita is Caldari. It shall remain Caldari, no matter what trite llittle label pops up on my neocom.

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There is no strength left in the State. To stand up to internal threats let alone external ones.

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I fully agree, while terrorist attack would have been great loss for the state 6-2 decision to give up arguably most prized system in the cluster means that simmilar attacks on other systems and “little green men” blowing dissatisfaction out of proportions are viable strategy to remove state oversight.

And while all that was happening forces were redirected to Syndicate, region net even bordering Caldari space. Combined this makes me belive that it all was facilitated from inside, to get on the good side of their hosts and leave the State after weakening it, as such I, Lieutenant Colonel of Caldari militia too demand transparency.

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Sounds like the standard backroom dealing, really. Caldari State sovereign recognition over Syndicate in return for the interstellar neutrality over Jita.

At least, that’s how it tracks for me.

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I recognize the CEP’s ruling, but I have to stand with the esteemed Chief Executive Officers of Sukuuvestaa and Kaalakiota in opposition to this. It represents an unprecedented and alarming concession, jeopardizing the security and sovereignty of the Caldari State’s innermost constellation.

That we have allowed enemies of the State to freely travel and stage one jump from New Caldari, all to appease the mad ramblings of some non-Caldari ingrates is a mistake, one that I hope we will be able to reverse before catastrophe strikes.

That even ownership of 4-4 itself, the beating heart of interstellar commerce that we built up from nothing, is up for review within the next 6 months sounds like a bad joke. I strongly urge the CEP to reconsider their stance on this and reassess both CONCORD’s and Evermore’s abilities to protect the heart of our State. Our focus should not be on minimizing the costs of restoring the damage caused by the Syndicate terrorists, but on safeguarding our territory from foreign invasion, a concern that is now more pressing than ever since CONCORD’s latest failure to uphold international law.

For the State.

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It would look like a trade of sorts. A Syndicate for a System.

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There is something that can be said for keeping one’s enemies close to you.

That said, while I understand that the events leading up to Jita’s change of administration are putting many at ill ease, I instead see that there is potential in this and what may follow from it.

Tiiro Eilaakonesen - the Way to Infinity - is best traversed together, after all.

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I will need several drinks.

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I find it hilarious that the CEP responds to a terror attack and financial assault by immediately invading and entirely annexing the territories of a neutral and (until a certain trial proves otherwise) unaligned power in the far end of space while in the same week willingly handing over the very heart of it’s economic power to CONCORD with a buyout clause for a Gallentean megacorp to buy out the most vital station underneath that.

Is the CEP confused?

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I have to assume this is some sort of long game, because it straight up doesn’t make sense.

I’ve trusted Saraki so far, even if I’ve had my doubts about some things. But this…

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