Another minor update to Ché's CONCORD DED Public Capsuleer Datasheet.

I consider the CP terraforming to be IC knowledge due to what is written in Source about Arcurio:

When initially established, the settlement of Arcurio grew up around a network of four enormous atmospheric processing arrays, leading to the formation of four distinct wards in which employees who were responsible for maintaining the hardware and ensuring its remained online at all times lived and worked.
Regardless of the fact that these four arrays were decommissioned and dismantled almost 400 years ago, the 4 original wards of Hiishara, Bukkaido, Kotowaari, and Okuuda, named after the respective arrays, still remain and make up the central district of Arcurio,

I also read that the atmospheric processing is still ongoing.

Early Years


Born Natasiya Veikitamo Tasuukin on May 27 BYC 36 to her patrilineal gene donor, Admiral Veikamin Javiyia Tasuukin of the Caldari Navy and Sabikainen Tuikano Tasuukin, a corporate Executive of a consumer electronics subsidiary of Kaalakiota Corporation. She would spend her formative childhood years enrolled in the elite Kaalakiota educational creche -- School Number 7 -- to be groomed for leadership roles as befitting her family and Deteis racial background.


Her parents were largely absent during her childhood, which would be a source of silent estrangement and resentment in her adulthood. Natasiya Veikitamo was a capable student with aptitudes in mathematics and the sciences in addition to excelling in the youth sport wargames exercises organised by her school creche. Attributes that would serve her well when she was selected for hydrostatic capsule training at the age of sixteen with Caldari Navy.


She would spend four years at the State War Academy before graduating from her class fifth out of one hundred and fifty six with a degree in Physics and commissioned a Lieutenant in the Caldari Navy. Assigned to the 223rd Fleet Regiment for her entire Naval career she would rise to the rank of Major and commanding a Kestrel frigate squadron: the 32/233 "Krakens" by the time the Armistice was signed in YC11. During her career she was charged with war crimes by the Federation for the use of chemical organophosphate warheads against a civilian installation in Botane, killing over ten thousand, in addition to other offences. A dubious distinction she wears with pride to this day.


Upon the Armistice, she would retire from Caldari Navy to take up a position with the Home Guard with rank of Major. She would take part in the "Watchtower" program of Kaalakiota Corporation in YC12: the cryogenic storage of Independence War veterans as a strategic reserve should hostilities renew with the Gallente Federation. Prior to her storage she would marry her childhood sweetheart, Mathias Hevaima Kurovassi and take up the marital name, Gesakaarin.


Bureau 515


Awakened in YC 83 to a now defunct Watchtower Program, she was transferred from Home Guard to Bureau 515 of Kaalakiota Corporation, a foreign intelligence and espionage service formed in response to the Caldari-Gallente Armistice by a cabal of Home Guard officers dissatisfied with the terms of the treaty with the Gallente Federation. Under guise of training as a corporate lawyer she was instructed in clandestine operations for four years, graduating from both STI as a lawyer and Bureau 515 as an intelligence operative in YC87.


Her first operation with Bureau 515 would take her to the Khanid Kingdom in YC 87 as part of a corporate diplomatic team to Khanid Transport along with her husband, Mathias Hevaima Gesakaarin. This period would see her cultivating contacts and agents among Sani Sabik cells and individuals in addition to working in conjunction with Royal Khanid Signals Intelligence with the express intent of undermining the power and capabilities of the Amarr Empire to the interests of Kaalakiota Corporation by providing financial, logistical and intelligence support.


In YC99 she was transferred along with her husband to Republic operations of Bureau 515. During this period she would run agents and create contacts primarily among the Krusual and Thukker Tribes via Clan Kjalarthal and Clan Seykal respectively with the intention of providing clandestine financial, logistic, and intelligence support against the Amarr Empire.


As Independent Capsuleer


Natasiya Veikitamo Gesakaarin would emerge in YC114 as a Sukuuvestaa Officer of the Peace and Order Unit to conduct the nanosecond buyout of Strix Armaments, a Roden Shipyards subsidiary.


Natasiya Veikitamo Gesakaarin conducted the audit of Wiyrkomi Honour Guard as a Commissar of the Caldari Providence Directorate. Finding it culpable of anti-Provist activity, she folded it to form a new company, Pyre Falcon Defence and Security.


She was discovered to have conducted prisoner exchange programs with the Sansha Nation loyalist organisation, True Slave Foundations, by the capsuleer, Samira Kernher in YC115.


Upon the removal of Tibus Heth as CEO of Kaalakiota Corporation, she formally retired from her position as CEO of Pyre Falcon Defence and Security in YC115.


Served in the State Protectorate for approximately one year, and the 24th Imperial Crusade for three years.


Conducted a prisoner exchange of Matari combatants with the capsuleer, Ava Starfire, in return for thousands of tons of Mikramurkan Snow Cod.


In late YC120 formed a corporation, Black Advent, to provide "military-advisory" support to Tronhadar Free Guard and Seykal Expeditionary Group.


Personality


A woman of many affectations deliberately designed to foster an underestimation of her actual intelligence, capabilities, and intentions. Her current preferred affectation is that of a "typical" edgelord capsuleer with an often jocular capacity for violence. As to what truly lies beneath the mask, it's likely cold, ruthless and conducts her objectives with an absolute lack of sentiment, pity, or remorse. These affectations serve the dual purpose of deflection from her association with Kaalakiota Corporation.


Politics


As a scion of Kaalakiota Corporation, she regards her loyalty to the Company in the form of its Great Families as an absolute. A staunch militarist and advocate of cynical realpolitik she views idealism as infantile: the only true political relationship is based on power and interests, not ideology. To that end, she regards the only true end goal of Kaalakiota as being that of securing power, whether that be economic, industrial, or military, in order so that the Caldari State may exercise its interests as it may please. For her, Kaalakiota is the bastion from which the rest of the Caldari people may realise their ambitions and as such, is the vanguard of a Greater Good which she must both advance and defend.


In regards to foreign powers she views the Gallente Federation under its current Union as too dysfunctional and febrile to conduct concerted campaigns against the Caldari State proper -- despite the patriotic diatribes of its more Hawkish citizenry. Instead, she views the Amarr Empire and its religious tenets of Reclaiming as a more plausible and legitimate existential threat, whether that be via subversive cultural indoctrination against traditional Caldari values or the potential for outright military campaigns against the State proper in future. As such, she advocates for policies and programs aimed at fostering discord and dysfunction within the Empire to limit its potential for hostile action against the Caldari people. As for the Minmatar she affords a degree of respect and admiration as a people who fought for their right to exist against a foreign power -- and won.

The appearance of the Kyonoke disease at the same time precursors activity picks up makes me wonder if Kyonoke is the Jovian Disease.


Perhaps it's an offshoot.

I'd like to know the status of the Kaalakiota Peaks and eastern forest.    How bad is the crash site?  Did the forest burn down? 

Cold Wind lived in the peaks, Heart-Of-The-Forest in the forest.   If these are gone it is a big deal.

I bet the name of the Dark Forest Business club is most likely inspired by the philosophy of the recent best selling Dark Forest trilogy.   It could be shoe horned onto Lai Dai easily enough.

If the of home of Heart-Of-The-Forest is burnt down due to Kaalakiota's incompetence the name of the Dark Forest Business Club  could be interpreted with more significance.

It could be a double entendre referring to Lai Dai's adoption of the Practical's mercantilist philosophy and a finger pointing at Kaalakiota for why they are doing it.


To my knowledge it has never been confirmed if the terraforming of Caldari Prime is IC or OOC knowledge.   It would be nice to know what my character knows about a race defining bit of lore.

I also would like to know what Ishukone found in the archeology site exposed by the titain crashing into the Kaalakiota mountains.   Was it info on the terraforming or does it have something to do with the precursors?  Or both?

I agree with the sentiment  of more knowledge about bother Caldari world's I'dke to know these things before just dropping Caldari Prime all together. 

I'm very interested in Kamokor IV the homeworld of Moedu's Legion.

There are very few capsuleers relative to the  total human population.  My head Cannon is that every capauleer is assigned a live agent to watch them -  much like the Watchers in the 90s TV series 'Highlander.'

I like it, Jocca!

Posted on behalf of Melisma Ramijozana:

My head cannon / notes for JQ say he has the Voluval mark of "The Smith", which is a stylised hammer and anvil ( something representing this https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31MQ-Qiw99L._SY450_.jpg ) on the chest, just to the right of the heart.

I think of this as a fairly common mark amongst Seb's, especially those of the tinkerer ancestry (is that stuff even shown anywhere anymore).

Associations: Hard working, reclusive, intelligent, obsessive, innovative, arrogant.

Some time last week.

Anyone who knows even the tiniest bit about Minmatar lore, would know that Voluval is an important rite of passage for the Minmatar. Yet, we have almost no examples of what a Voluval actually looks like, what specific meaning they might hold, and so on. Well, I'm hoping to change that, at least a little.


This is, as should be evident, entirely player fiction. I invite people to invent and, if they like, draw their own ideas of Voluvals in this thread. The intent of this thread is to give people inspiration to invent their own, but also give them some pre-made choices - afterall, Voluvals aren't usually unique, but made of general, catalogued shapes and symbols of which we, as players, sadly don't know about.


I'll start with a few of my own - sourced from ideas on Discord and couple of my own headcanons:

---