[Politics] AFS Calls for Council Seat Removal

AFS Calls for Council Seat Removal

The past week has seen a sharp increase in protests across Citadel Space as the Political Action Committee “Accountability For Sur’kesh” has questioned the legitimacy of the salarian Council membership.

“A Council member’s duty is to protect Citadel Space as a whole,” explained Takus Tran, event coordinator for AFS. “Where was the Union during the Reaper War? Where was it during the single most important threat the galaxy has ever faced? Nowhere, because Allied forces wouldn’t pander to their little games.”

The tone was similar at the Presidium protest, with over 400 members of various races calling for the salarians’ removal from the Council.

“[The salarians] can’t even feel our pain,” argued guest speaker Opheus Lonad (H-Tier 14, Palaven). “Out of everyone in the galaxy, they’re the only ones with an intact homeworld, the only ones with a fully functioning industry. They should have been spearheading that war, but they could barely send a token resistance.”

While many protesters stayed “on-message” throughout the event, several members had their own to make. One salarian protester, speaking on condition of anonymity, stated that he was there as a reminder of his own species’ dissent from his government.

“What I want is for our political caste to take a hard look at themselves, and spur my people into limiting our Dalatrasses’ power,” he said.

The protests were largely ignored by those uninvolved, though the Salarian political body has expressed mild contempt for the movement. Dalatrass Mendon (Miscigle, Jaeto) in particular noted covert actions taken throughout the war and afterward a statement condemning the protests.

“This is an outrage,” she said. “If you think we just sat there during the war and did nothing, you are grossly mistaken...We kept the galactic economy running, and overtly supported our allies as best we could. We were conducting thousands of simultaneous operations to give us an edge on the Reapers, and the worst simply came to worst.”

Mendon declined to comment on the Union’s wartime operations, citing operational secrecy, though she further noted the salarians' involvement in galactic reconstruction.

“The Council’s duties are not solely based in waging war,” she stated.

Further protests are scheduled for this week.

Yet they were totally right in writing Shepard off...


...And you'll get rid of Linron and her toadies without disturbing the government system that produced and supported them, or offering anything to the people who actually want change, or dealing with the people who keep trashing your reputation. Cool. Good luck with that, frogs.

No they didn't. I'll be the first to admit I'm ashamed of our elders' choice to conceal the Athame beacon, but I see no reason to harbour such massive doubts about what the public has been told now, which is that for all the technological insight gleaned from study of the beacon, the vast majority of its secrets remained indecipherable. It's Prothean for Spirits' sakes, researchers have been going nuts for millennia any time they've been able to get a piece of Protheotech to so much as power up, let alone do anything so mundane as voluntarily communicate even the most basic of data.

Ignore the credibility of the proponents, even, what's more believable? One, the beacon's accessibility was on a par with its lesser kin elsewhere in the galaxy, stunningly difficult to decipher but making possible huge gains even from the scraps of data it could be coaxed into divulging, and that once a Prothean weapon plan had already been discovered elsewhere and construction begun the Matriarchs finally overcame their shameful indecision and elected to contribute the information they held, admitting their guilt in the process, in the hope that it might help? Or two, that the beacon was not only one of the largest and most complex ever discovered but also fully functional and communicative, that it had told the Matriarchs what the Reapers were and what they would do, and that they did nothing about it even after one of them nearly conquered the Citadel? Where's the logic in that?

They've been on some of the best covers, though. Quality over quantity.

Confuse cause and effect all you like. Ignore everything we've done since.

Either way, I'm done with this thread.

I'm not an expert on politics. I'm not a soldier or a war veteran. I am not someone who believes in political ideals. I'm a survivor, and all I care is that I can get the medication I need. They provide what we need, and so in my books, as well as those of a lot of other patients, they're doing a great job; leave them alone.