[CRIME] Primacy Official Assaulted at Summit

[CRIME] Primacy Official Assaulted at Summit

C-Sec is interviewing witnesses after an unidentified drell doused a hanar politician with florescent paint and glitter, leaving it completely unable to communicate.

Quessanden, a high-ranking primacy official, was visiting the Citadel as part of trade negotiations. However, it has been sharply criticized by drell rights groups for its stances on compactee affairs, it having defended the service of 'underage' drell. It has also been accused of favouring Primacy corporations that make use of compactee labour. After a long day of negotiations, it was presenting the latest proposal to the press when it was hit with several capsules containing glitter and paint.

C-Sec has been unable to find the assailant, who quickly fled the scene. If found, he or she faces misdemeanour charges for holding a protest outside of registered zone.

Is it bad that I laughed at this?

It is very bad.

This is a disgusting act and this one hopes that the one who did it (and any accomplices) are punished to the fullest extent of the law

It's a little bit bad, but we're only sapient, a quick chuckle doesn't mean condoning the act. Hopefully C-Sec will catch the assailant - no lasting harm or not that's a distressing experience (particularly so for a hanar I'm given to understand, with the disruption of communication), and not something to be done to another just to try to underscore a point (though that, in turn, isn't to condone the victim's views, either).

Ha!

Hahahahahaha!!

It goes to show that citizen justice comes in many, many forms!

Glitter?

So Laykalar, or I guess even you HH, is glitter some sort of flashbang for Hanar?

Quick question.

Is an attack like this lethal to hanar?

This is an important question to judge how bad I should feel for wanting to laugh at this.

Shouldn't the assailant be brought up on charges of assault? I mean, yeah, no harm was done, but I'm pretty sure having capsules of an unknown substance chucked at you fulfills the whole "intentional act by one person that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent harmful or offensive contact" thing. I don't know, seems like a bit more than protesting outside of legal zones to me.

As far as whether people should feel bad, eeeehhh... Sure, it's a hanar in glitter but, really, I imagine it was quite frightening for the hanar involved. Also, I'm not going to say it always happens, but these kinds of "harmless" aggressive actions can embolden people to do much, much worse things. Just something to consider.

EDIT:
I'm no xenobiologist, but I gotta imagine that, having evolved in an aquatic environment, this has to at least be somewhat dangerous. Isn't hanar skin more porous or able to absorb water or something? Of course, it could have just been super non-toxic paint.

Regardless, I don't think you would be laughing if someone did a drive-by gagging on you. Not sure why it being a hanar makes a difference.

Only lethal as far as to what the victim does in response. It may remain calm despite the distress and the issue can be resolved in short order. Or it could panic, stumble, and fall over a railing or into traffic.

It's quite readily comparable to me throwing paint in your eyes and simultaneously disabling your translator... Is that the sort of thing that would convince you to change your political beliefs?

This attack is counterproductive to the anti-compact activists' cause, it's simultaneously too vicious to endear the drell who did it and too limp to be a catalyst for the sort of violent uprising some propose will ultimately be what ends the compact for good.

This came over my optics in the middle of a deal to equip some primacy rooks with not crappy hanar-don't-fucking-undestand-terminal-ballistics gear.

This was my face until they left.

I think I broke a lung.

Come on guys, that hanar was openly favoring underage indentured servantry! How would you react if a politician was openly prancing around, proud of how many youngs of your species he's putting to work? I think he got off easy.

That's pretty much how the compact has worked forever.

You really expect them to just up and switch to something more "galactically approved" because some non-enlightened borderline heretic council ass-end lightyears away has an issue with it?

Right.

Hanar accept change like krogans accept turian stewardship.

I'm not saying this action will magically get the hanar to turn around, but I sympathize with that drell's sentiment.

As for the question about physical harm, I would think a drell is quite well versed on hanar physiology and probably knew what s/he was doing. So I laughed a little.
I think, the action is less directed at the hanar politician itself, but more towards the general public to raise awareness of the issue. Something that has been achieved with quite a few giggles.

I also remember vaguely.... Laykalar, didn't you have a sort of similar accident a while ago while decorating something? I think it also was glitter glue but I'm not completely sure (the search on the site seems broken).

Also, how could the drell flee so easily and disappear without a trace?

This is distressing, and was very ill-considered. The protester's actions are unlikely to encourage useful discussion within the hanar community. It does not believe that this will serve to popularise the protester's opinions.


This one would categorise the use of glitter and paint as more a symbolic offence than a means of physical disorientation. The other, asari_promiscuity, has noted the importance of the Word to this one's people. It must humbly assert that being rendered unable to communicate could be interpreted as an attack upon religious identity. This one might draw comparisons to the act of tearing cloth from the head of a devout Sikh, or scrubbing out the facial markings of a committed Delphon Herald. It may potentially be viewed as an assault upon the devotional tradition. This one is of course uncertain if the assault in question was intended as such, but that is how it will be received by many of this one's people, perhaps prematurely.

This one is aware that those of other species may find some humour in the incident, and it believes it understands their perspective, but it expects the response from most hanar to be one of great offence.


This one spilt glitter glue on a Keeper. It was uncertain of what to do. It feared that any attempts to clean the Keeper would result in its destruction and violate Council law.

It believes the Keeper is still intact and functional.

It might ask the other, Capice, if she has noticed it while tracking the Keepers.

Quessanden is doing fine, by all accounts. The paint was mercifully non-toxic and the glitter was washed off before too much of it could be absorbed. A few days rest and the other should be fine.

It can only echo what others have said - this was not intended to put the other in any danger, although this sort of thing is not without risks. It is, however, immensely distressing to be suddenly rendered blind and mute.


Drell are very good at that. Has the other not seen various popular videos in which the drell assassin can just disappear in a crowd?

It is not without some element of truth.

This is just awful, it does not help anyone or any cause to commit such an acts of petty vandalism. Diplomacy is the key, not paint.

Not only that but Quessanden was not the only victim of this act, that paint, those glitters they get everywhere within a large range, just awful, who will pay the dry-cleaners to get it out.

Fluorescent paint and glitter? Seriously?

Citizen vigilantism at its best. I don't usually condone things like this, but I'd bet my last credit C-Sec's laughing their fringes off right now.

Dude, it's not like we're naturally good at this. It's because some larger-than-normal proportion of us receive assassination training and a larger proportion of us have training as soldiers, bodyguards, and general dispensers-of-violence. Often starting when the drell are very young.

...And seriously, you're all setting the bar for 'assault' really low.

Have you read what Quessanden has said about the drell? That he had to shut up for one day did not do him or the galaxy serious harm. I am totally with whoever did this.

Also I have not seen a glittery keeper.

Okay, not deadly, and more of a protest to get it to shut up, and it's kind of an asshole who has expressed racist beliefs...

I do not feel bad for laughing. If it was a nice hanar that was simply a hanar diplomat doing its job, I wouldn't be amused. But when the kicked dog bites back in such a fabulous way, I laugh my ass off.

Only slightly related, I saw a bunch of keepers with hats on once when I was about twelve...I wonder if they still have those hats...