[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.

Oh my God woman, kindly make an appointment with a talented chiropractor so that you can reconfigure your spine so that maybe, just maybe, you can get the fuck over yourself. Normally I would give less than an imaginary extranet shit over whatever fresh wordclot you've coughed up but Pariah, darling, what happened to you?

You used to be so innovative!

So creative!

So new.

And now you're just shilling the same tired line about the geth enslaving war criminals who collectively deserve to be bumfucked by a Prime for the next three hundred thousand years anyway. But no, wait! The GETH are the real monstars oooooOOOOooOOOoooooo.

You can't see it but I'm waggling my fingers in a spooky yet condescending fashion. If you can picture a small adorable child without becoming overwhelmed by the desire to consume its raw flesh it is basically how you'd entertain a baby.

But moving on: the further balkanization of the galaxy is arguably a good thing. Such a centralization of power like the Citadel Council has a...damping effect almost. I mean look at the major Council races, each of them woven together into mutual co-dependence because they've all become so damn narrowly specialized that it's a legitimate struggle for them to operate outside the handful of fields where they excel. And the inevitable inertia that accumulates around that kind of scope is really just a lovely pair of concrete shoes the Council's taking for a walk by the lake.

Change. Change like this. Catalyzing change that forces the galaxy to change and adapt and reevaluate itself in response is great and pretty much exactly what we need.

Nature of relationship exists at fracture point between legal definitions versus factual reality. Legal definition: Creator-Remnant population granted near unrestricted access to Rannoch/Far Rim colonial bodies; have exercised ability to enact formation of self governing polity under executive-legislative bodies Conclave of Captains/Admirality board; Consensus restricted to advisorship within stated body. Factual reality: gross majority re: extant Farm Rim security responsibility of Consensus; near entirety re: extant Farm Rim martial/industrial/agricultural/technologic/economic infrastructure Consensus possession; Creator-Remnants self evidently lack sovereign authority/social plus political legitimacy to compel Consensus to enact/desist actions.


Context of primary importance re: pictographic representations designed to elicit unconscious emotional reaction within targeted demographic. User: Pariah's appended iconography intended to elicit triarchy of responses dependent upon views of individual participants within given forum thread: synthetic entities/advocates: fight/flight primary; Synthetic advocates/general participants: shock plus derivative responses [ie. anger; disgust; fear; etc.]; User: Affirmation of stated views/reassurance of inevitability re: dissolution of synthetic entities.

Enacting clarification; extrapolation. Iconography depicts destruction of bipedal chassis classified under greater superset: infantry. Barring notable exceptionalities [singular nature re: stated exceptionalities exclusionary to implementation re: military infantry chassis] post-regional conflict: Morning War said methodology ineffective for enacting enforced dissolution of animating subroutines. Creator-Remnant portrayed within pictograph possessed of immediate terminality not applicable to Consensus component programs. Termination re: Creator-Remnant deals not-insignificant damage to greater Creator-Remnant martial infrastructure. Termination re: infantry platform expected plus accounted for re: margins of disposability.

Termination re: Creator-Remnant equivalent to unsustainable degradation re: greater Creator-Remnant military complex.

Termination re: infantry platform necessary/acknowledged component in securing following Consensus sovereign territories:





Instigation of high order military engagement consistently self-determined prerogative of Creator-Remnants. Historically said decision processes have failed to result in Creator-Remnant dictated outcomes.

Context is important.