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| Tibus Heth | |
|---|---|
| Allegiance | Caldari State |
| Corporation | Caldari Providence Directorate |
Tibus Heth was the Chief Executor of the Caldari Providence Directorate, CEO of the Kaalakiota Corporation and the de facto leader of the Caldari State from YC 110 until YC 115, when he fell from grace and the position was abolished. When not engaged in official State business, Heth had used the surname Adar as an alias but is nevertheless still accompanied by a security entourage.
Heth disappeared under mysterious circumstances in YC 115. It's unknown whether he's alive or dead.
Early Life[]
Tibus Heth was a member of the Home Guard on a space station but was dismissed from his position in YC 105 after a series of racially-motivated attacks on other station inhabitants. At one point in his life, he was a member of the anti-Gallente organization Templis Dragonaurs for 6 years and continued to keep ties with them afterwards.
He went on to become an MTAC operator at Caldari Constructions and was later named "Employee of the Month". The reward for his distinction was a mechanical pocket watch. As he preferred things he could fix himself, Heth was reportedly quite fond of this memento.
Takeover[]
"My name is Tibus Heth, and I am a Caldari Patriot. The restoration of our State's dignity begins now."
—Tibus Heth
In YC 110 Tibus Heth rose to prominence during an uprising at the Caldari Constructions facility in the Piak system. His actions, particularly the publicized scene of Tibus risking his life by going through Home Guard fire to rescue a wounded comrade, generated a lot of support from the rank and file Caldari. To everyone's surprise, the incident ended when Xavier Black, an agent of unknown affiliation, secured control of Caldari Constructions and appointed Tibus Heth as CEO.
Following the Malkalen catastrophe later that year, Heth's particular brand of anti-Gallente patriotism fanned the flames of war with the majority of Caldari corporations pledging themselves to Heth's Caldari Providence Directorate, effectively making Tibus Heth dictator of the Caldari State. He used his newly appointed position to institute a series of reforms intended to bring the Caldari back to a meritocratic society.
The Minmatar Elder attack on the CONCORD headquarters in Yulai created an opportunity for Heth to initiate an invasion on the Gallente Federation with single-minded intent: the recapture of Caldari Prime. He was successful in recapturing Caldari Prime and other territories of the Federation, most notably Intaki Prime. Subsequently, Caldari Prime became a bubble of Caldari territory inside Federation space.
Post Second Gallente-Caldari War[]
Following the events of the Second Gallente-Caldari War, Tibus Heth collected data regarding former Gallente President Souro Foiritan and his successor Jacus Roden, as well as the movement of Ishukone Corporation ships, personnel, and assets inside the Intaki system. To this he added his own notes and questions outlining suspicions of an intricate conspiracy involving Foiritan and Mens Reppola, Ishukone's CEO. Heth believed Intaki was used as a way to funnel Gallente spies into the State with Ishukone's help; that Foiritan's resignation from the presidency was a distraction; and that Jacus Roden subsequently took over as the most powerful person in the Federation because he was plausibly clean of the Intaki affair.
Despite knowing the implied level of insanity such a conspiracy would suggest, Tibus Heth nevertheless considered it plausible due to his past contact with the Broker.
Health[]
Heth considered himself a citizen first and foremost above being leader of the State. As such, when it came to his health, he desired no preferential treatment and prefered to visit the same doctor who treated him during his years working for Caldari Constructions.
In YC 112, his physician, Dr. Yoshun, diagnosed him with Exotic Tissue Sedimentation, commonly known as Derj's Disease, as a result of exposure to Augumene when Heth worked for the company. Although not likely to be terminal in Heth's case, the disease had reached stage three, which prevented Heth from being able to be cloned due to deposits which had formed around his neural tissues. Should Heth attempt to clone himself, there would be a strong probability of permanent and irreversible neural damage. A worst-case scenario would be that the new body would simply never wake up.
Following this diagnosis, Heth ordered his aide, Jinyo, to arrange for a dedicated personal physician for himself to manage regular checkups and tests. He ordered an investigation into Caldari Constructions' use of Augumene in building materials during the previous decade. The knowledge of his disease spurred Heth to gather the most loyal and incorruptible officials and investigators to his side so he could begin weed out what he considered to be "weakness and timidity" which had grown like an infection within the State.
Downfall[]
After a number of gaffes in leadership due to instability caused by his Derj’s Disease, which had progressed to the lethal and dementia-inducing stage 4, Heth’s gradual fall from grace culminated in the successfully executed Operation Highlander by the Federation Navy to remove Caldari Navy and Caldari Providence Directorate forces from the orbit of Caldari Prime in March of YC 115. During the assault, Heth ordered the admiral in command of the Leviathan Shiigeru, Visera Yanala, to fire the Titan's Doomsday weapon upon the Caldari homeworld to stop the Gallente troops, which would've killed hundreds of millions of innocent people. Against Heth's desires, Yanala refused his order seven times and instead put her entire focus in minimizing the damage the Shiigeru would do to the planet by ejecting its Citadel missiles so that they'd burn in the atmosphere and ensuring the Titan's more volatile components were destroyed while the ship was in orbit. While the Shiigeru devastated the Kaalakiota Peaks and reshaped Caldari Prime's landscape, the planet would've been left uninhabitable if Yanala had obeyed. Heth was further outraged when Ishukone, Sukuvestaa and Hyasyoda negotiated with the Gallente to turn Caldari Prime into a demilitarized zone, against Heth's wishes to reclaim the planet by force. Outraged by what he saw as treason, Heth announced his plans to nationalize the eight corporations and place the State under his rule, which only angered the Caldari further.
Furious with Visera for her disobedience, Heth and the Caldari Navy executive officer Mininela Erinen forced Yanala to commit suicide through the Tea Maker's Ceremony and attempted to cover up her death by saying that her clone had a malfunction, while he and his Provists did everything he could to vilify her with his speeches. After Erinen testified the truth under oath in May 25, Heth's actions were met with widespread condemnation across both Caldari and Gallente space for his involvement in the war hero's death. In May 27, Heth made a speech to CC workers where he admitted he was responsible for Yanala's death and denounced her heroics as "treasonous", which angered the crowds so much that they interrupted his speech and started riots across New Caldari.
Heth didn't attend the CEP meeting of May 29 and his location was unknown until June 10, when he, along with his inner circle, his Provists and Templis Dragonaur forces raided and seized a Caldari Constructions warehouse in Haatomo, with witnesses mentioning that he was raving about Caldari Prime. He intended to turn the station into a staging area to invade the homeworld with his followers and a fleet of around 100 ships, and take it back by force. This finished turning the CEP and the other corporations against him. The CEP denounced Heth's actions as a terrorist attack and Kaalakiota ousted him from his CEO position, to unanimous approval of the other seven, while the Caldari Navy blockaded the station. Eight days after the siege began, Tawarari Tano's forces broke through the station's sealed-off sections when they confirmed the terrorists had hostages and the subsequent battle ended with most of the Provists' dreadnoughts and carriers destroyed and the rest disabled. Sadly, although Heth was wounded during the assault, he managed to escape the station alongside high-ranking Dragonurs member Tolen Kirakachi in a Raven Navy Issue.
Heth was removed from office as executor of the Caldari State and was charged in absentia for theft, malfeasance, misappropriation, embezzlement, the murder of Admiral Yanala, terrorism and political extremism. In July 9, the position of Chief Executor was abolished to ensure there would never be another Heth. The Provists were also disbanded.
Although Heth remains at large, on October 18 of YC 115, the wreckage of his Raven and some of its escort fleet was found in the system of Aivonen. No bodies were found onboard, though there were clear signs of a sustained firefight, an artificial EMP pulse and energy weapons damage. Heth’s bloodied Caldari Constructions Employee of the Month watch was recovered at the scene. At around the time between his final sighting in October 10 and his ship wreck being found, an Incursion from Sansha's Nation was attacking Aivonen at the time. Whether the Nation had something to do with Heth's disappearance is uncertain, and his final fate remains a mystery even 9 years later.