[BREAKING] Rachni Hives Declare Sovereignty in Ninmah, Announce Alliance With Consensus

Rachni Hives Declare Sovereignty in Ninmah, Announce Alliance With Consensus
via Cincalio Voccius, Tayseri Times

[NINMAH] The week-long standoff around the Listening Post de-escalated with the arrival of Consensus forces who reaffirmed rachni statements of nonaggression and the diplomatic actions of Commander Deix Resocanthias. Over the course of subsequent negotiations between the Hierarchy battlegroup dispatched to reinforce the garrison around Station X-19 and the joint rachni and geth Consensus fleet. The Commander has, reportedly, convinced both sides to agree to a terse, but nonviolent, stand-down.

Diplomatic packets dispatched via the Listening Post and Consensus communication nets have outlined the basic requests of the rachni regarding the galactic community. First and foremost the Ninmah is to be recognized as sovereign Hives territory and under the express authority and control of its' Queens. Secondly they, and the geth Consensus have engaged in a mutually recognized defensive pact and protected trade arrangement subject to their individual purview. Thirdly, the Hives are collectively open to treaties of non-aggression with Omega, Khar’shan, Tuchanka, and the Citadel.

The fallout has, understandably, been rather extensive.

Quarian Conclave and Admiralty Board have descended into bitter factionalism over how to best respond to a move that Gah’rilya vas Sekith, Captain of the namesake heavy cruiser and a significant minority leader within the administrative body, has publicly decried the treaty as “tantamount to usurpation”. The Citadel Council has spent the day sequestered in an emergency session while Omega and Khar’shan remain mute at the time of this writing. The Urdnot-hosted Crush has reportedly deteriorated into substantial infighting as a result of unrelated grievances.

However notable political analyst Masilm, daughter of Dalatrass Solisa of the Opal Spires march and chairwoman of the independent think tank Gagal-gaslis, has provided a degree of insight into the situation as a whole in an exclusive interview with the Times. “Most of the secondary stuff, the offers across the board, the pacts of nonaggression, they're a form of preemptive diplomacy with the best of both worlds. All the benefits of a big, flashy, powerful entrance, while taking pains to make clear that they're open for discussion. I mean, they emerged sooner rather than later, in a galaxy that has no energy or drive left for the magnitude of conflict it would take to wipe them out and made virtually everything public so that all the different leaderships will have to settle on some kind of decision to appease the people. One that’ll involve varying degrees of nonaggression out of necessity. Even the krogan’ll have to settle for the time being, there’s just not enough unified support between the Clans or among their allies for another war of extermination.”

According to Ms. Masilm, the truly ground-shaking, and indeed worrying aspect of the situation, concerns the Consensus. “This was a quiet alliance, in the works for months, maybe even years before today. The rachni have an impressive genetic memory, insane population growth, and enough self directed genetic variability that most of the problems that pop up after such a severe population bottleneck just don’t apply. But just because you can come back from the brink doesn’t mean you can do so quickly. The Hives built a fully functional war machine within three years. They needed raw industrial minerals, fusionables, eezo, and enough electronic warfare tech to fool the Council grids; all things that the Consensus have in surplus. In turn, providing support for the rachni’s reconstruction gives the geth some very powerful friends.”

According to sources aboard the Listening Post plans are in the tentative stages to convert the station into an Ambassadorial post under the authority of Commander Deix Resocanthias.

That too obviously. I mean I can be excited about both things yeah? But fair's fair:

Well I mean you're not wrong. What I, personally, get out of this in addition to the expansion of our galaxy (by just a little bit), new perspectives, and new cultures from a formerly extinct species? Rachni gene-tech, their processes, their applications, are going to revolutionize so many things. Not to mention the whole host of virtually unique technological advancements they've created and cultivated. Did you see that dry dock? They literally terraformed the inside of a planetoid, they terraformed it into a nest. For ships. There's so many different things that went into that and any one of them could have something on the order of a hundred other potentially useful applications. And that's to say nothing of the advancements and developments that will be prompted by the Hives's reemergence. And furthermore the rachni have already showed that they're amenable to trade and why would you look right where they're sitting? Next to several dozen cluster's worth of merchant empires and mercantile republics. Even if it's not controlled and proprietary tech they're selling, that's big money we're talking about.

Also, and most importantly, the Citadel Council is most conclusively no longer the undisputed arbiter of all galactic affairs both within and without it's borders. The batarians. Much of the krogan. Indigs. The geth. And now the rachni. The galaxy is changing and potential political ramifications aside, when there are power shifts up above people like me tend to profit substantially in some way or another.

But God do I adore the idea of the Council collectively being forced to openly take the Terminus seriously.

...Are you real?

You can look up Schmidt Solutions in the citadel business register or just look at the extranet page.

Well, call me naïve, but that's pretty promising, isn't it? I mean it's hardly a revolutionary move and I don't imagine either side actually wanted the alternative anyway, but getting "We're cool with sharing this place" formally confirmed has historically always been a big step towards actually sharing this place. Maybe I'll get to meet a rachni one day.

This really is not helping with any of the trust issues a lot of us are going through on Rannoch right now.

I don't think anyone cares about the issues you're having.

Does anyone expect the quarians and the geth to be trusting one another yet? I can be a bit of an idealist but no, that wasn't going to happen so fast.

You should. This isn't some minor offense you can brush under your rug and forget about. They blatantly went behind the conclave and Admiralty's back (because they know we can't do anything about it anyway) to organize this alliance, not to mention the rest of the galactic communities. You should be concerned that the largest military power in the galaxy is apparently deciding to do whatever it damn well pleases without even humoring its allies.


Quite a few are letting geth into their suits. That already put a lot of trust in them. Probably a bit too much considering the circumstances.

Hold up. Why exactly is the Consensus obligated to inform your Admiralty and Conclave of all of it's diplomatic dealings? If you recognize them as their own entity you should expect them to act on their own.

I mean, the Council races are all allies, but you know for sure they all have diplomats (and other shit) doing shit and making deals behind everyone else's backs. It's not inherently malicious, it's just their own business.

Chill, man. A previously extinct species is not extinct any longer, has made a huge, history making alliance with a race of AI, and is also willing to be open to negotiations with everyone else. No one's pointing guns at anyone else yet. No need to demonize either of them.

If one thing is clear in this article it is that the geth have allies and they sure as hell aint you guys.

Classification: alliance tagged with implications re: rough equivalency and/or mutual reciprocity plus aligned material interests.

I can confidently speak here to say that no diplomat or diplomatic service can confirm nor deny that his has been the case, is the case or could be the case in the foreseeable and unforeseeable future. Unless, of course, otherwise previously stated by the proper channels.


Because of the previous statement I cannot confirm nor deny that this is also the case, unless a exception is applicable.

You're barely their allies. You were trying to kill them five years ago. I think you're being unrealistic.

Good a time as any to ask, I suppose, but precisely what is the nature of the political relationship between the Consensus and the quarians? (I know I should probably know this, but Ana didn't stick around to find out how the dust settled once the fighting had finished at Rannoch, and businesswise we've really only dealt with quarian R&D people who've got geth working with them, not geth institutions themselves.) Obviously the two are co-habitants of Rannoch, I presume someone thought to put pen to paper sometime to formalise the de facto arrangement that sprung up during the war, but beyond that - allies, neighbours, what? Is it a joint administration of a shared world, or just two political entities who happen to be in the same place?

It is called slavery.

Foul! Aggressive, inflammatory unnecessary buckheadery and minimizing of actual slavery.

Right. It's Pariah.

Have you ladies just met each other?

Please bless us with more of your insightful geth whitewashing, Capice. Even when they are building alliances with the race of genocidal bugs right at this very moment.

That's...less objectionable, you're bitching about what they're actually doing. You're still hopeless, but!

Then you can look at this old thing I've held onto over the years, then.