[BREAKING] Slave convoy caught by Republics Navy - Raloi in cargo

[BREAKING] Slave convoy caught by Republics Navy - Raloi in cargo

via Armali's Voice

A slaver convoy headed for the Terminus in the Crescent Nebula was intercepted by elements of the Republics Navy. Led by the cruiser Iluata, the asari task force seized the convoy and escorted them to Athena Nebula for processing.

However when marines boarded the slaver vessels to inspect their cargo closer, they were met with surprise as hundreds of slavecollared raloi looked back at them. This surprising turn of events has sparked speculations about Belon's Rift relay having been restored to working order with the other four recently repaired relays, and the 96th Patrol Flotilla that rescued the raloi has been dispatched back to confirm the situation in Crescent Nebula.

This is what happens when you forget to watch further than your beak. Feigning technological inferiority might have saved those idiots on Turvess from the Reapers, but did they give any thought to what would come after?

No, they didn't. And now I can only watch as my kin are brought by the shipload onto the market.

"But slaving isn't a practical business anymore!!!"

This is disgusting. The species didn't even discover FTL by themselves. And now, because you idiots decided to uplift them and not leave them alone they are now easy prey for a bunch of slaving blinks

I seem to remember people extremely rudely affirming that it was impossible for slavers to do business in Turvess because the relay was guarded.
Not that well apparently.
It's good to note that from what I know the raloi slaves are not taken by raids, they are bought from some local powers who also practice slavery.

The slaver regrettably speaks the truth. The 'trade' was well alive during our first contact, and it is likely to be booming as result of modern goods and weaponry flowing to warlords on Turvess in return for warm bodies.

As opposed to who, exactly? Maybe the people who built the reapers?

Are the liberated Raloi going to go home or are they going to stay out here?

That's actually an excellent point Mr. Ranak. Given that contact with the surface of Turvess is banned and travel within the nebula itself restricted (plus the flotilla of ships whose sole purpose is to monitor said planet for signs of any interference or incursion and an additional bevy of technicians and customs ships at the relay) itself how

exactly

was a non-sanctioned non-Council vessel able to enter a relay that's secured on both sides, approach a system that is under quarantine, land on a planet that's being pinged with so many sensors you could probably fry an egg on their signal strength alone, remain landed for the duration necessary to load several hundred raloi, take off, bypass the pickets a second time, and then proceed to engage the locked down relay again (with, I remind you, the customs officials literally right there)

all without raising a single, solitary question like:

"What the fuck is that freighter and what is it doing here?"

heh heh heh.

Hey, hey, hey you guys.

you know that really stupid human holiday they wouldn't shut up about a few days ago? The one with the stupid ass looking bird?

well...

heh heh heh


They were just really determined to do it I guess. Decided to go for the long haul and drive that shit straight out there, drifting a long. All quiet like

I imagine they bribed Illium who don't particularly give a fuck about enforcing a council quarantine.

Alternately, Citadel Space has stopped being the galaxy's premier galactic superpower and has turned into a particularly strained punchline.

Well the obvious way is bribery. Ten of thousands of people are directly or indirectly in charge of providing valid relay passes. Then go not directly to Turvess but to another system first before doubling back, and have one of the hundreds of people in the surveillance ships bribed to look away during the transaction.
Procuring the Ralois itself will be very easy. Again the local state already practice slavery, so it's only as hard as landing, paying and taking off with the slaves already restrained and prepared.
It's still a very expensive and risky endeavor (as shown by the ill fate of that ship), but Ralois are rare, and rare is expensive.

Another Question: Since when does C-Space have jurisdiction in Illium, exactly?

A Republic Flotilla illegally in illium space found a pirate ship that had illegally captured Raloi and illegally arrested them without telling the local governments. How does that work, exactly.

If the case gets thrown out because the Republics did not have jurisdiction to prosecute I will laugh my ass off.

As you just said there are thousands of people monitoring it. There is not one special person to bribe to look the other way, there are thousands.
That level of organization implies multiple exchanges of data, again through controlled channels.
Well A. if they like Council trade they will, if only for the sake of not making trouble over what's basically a small time payday and B. that still doesn't explain the Council locked side of the relay.

You vastly overestimate the implication of civil workers. They each have their own work to do, and if you time your actions right you need one of them to do their job poorly once. The others have no apparent reason to come double check what he did.

And you somehow manage to underestimate the capabilities and interlocking complexity of a group that exists for exactly this purpose while overestimating your own ingenuity and general competence in the field of slaving which, upon reflection, is actually a good thing.

But seriously; your answer is "bribe them".

I really don't know how to drive home the point that "them" is in actuality a "metric fuckton of people" when you yourself said it

I just

I can't.

Eh, it's... Tricky, I guess.

Like, the Terminus isn't unified (obviously, that's what makes it the Terminus). But the Board of Governors has a really good working relationship with the Republics - trade between T-Space and R-Space is what keeps Illium going, after all - so it wouldn't surprise me if they're letting the Republican Navy into their nearspace to run ops like this.

Probs wouldn't let, y'know, the frogs or the big H or anyone, but the Republics are a different story.


Poor choice of words, man. Or a great pun, whatever.

The Relays were built to have backdoors in them, and the system wasn't even completely mapped the first time around. But obviously it happened, so...

I don't have the old news pages in front of me, but didn't Turvess themselves request continuation of contact? I am sure we didn't initiate first contact, we just had a ship in the system and they had a sensor satellite of some kind pointed in the right direction - I know there have been similar situations in the past where the consensus of the local authorities was to delay widespread contact, and that's what was done.

I mean, yes, it's extremely unfortunate that circumstances beyond anyone's knowledge or control turned entry into the galactic community from a great opportunity for advancement and prosperity to a Reaper-signed death warrant, but that's pure hindsight. Given the starting request for ongoing contact, what was the Citadel to do - "Sorry, you're not advanced enough to join us"? None of us truly 'discovered' FTL ourselves either, we were just lucky enough to have a prior starfaring civilisation's toys lying around for us to find.

It wasn't in Illium, it's somewhere in the nebula - I know it gets called the 'Illium Economic Zone' in some circles, but that's purely a mercantile shorthand, Illium's got no more territorial claim beyond Tasale's system border than any other single-system nation does over its neighbours. Given that these raloi were wearing slave collars - I can only assume that means an active control mechanism - it's virtually certain that however they came to be off Turvess they weren't indentured servants under Illium law, and one has to assume their captors intended to smuggle them through Tasale relay, both of which are the kinds of things that tick off the Board of Governors mightily. So I'd imagine their reaction to the 96th (which it's likely they were already aware of) would be along the lines of 'Good work, keep it up.'

More like an unfortunate accident of words that turned out to be offensively brilliant thank you very much.

So current theories are:

Slavers with a net worth equivalent to the Nemean Abyss's GDP
Slavers with more access to the relay system than most governments and who are still apparently slaving
Reaper-Slavers
Slaver-Reapers
Ghost-Slavers

and

space whales.

Well

I cannot possibly see how this can get any better.

I believe they prefer 'void-dwelling'.

Looks like the raloi destroying all of their ships and orbital facilities just made them vulnerable after the Reapers were gone. Hm...

Tyre! Get the men ready! We've got services to offer.

You should ignored them and left to whatever it is they were doing. Until, they actually developed the capacity to leave their home system and stumble on the Citadel themselves. 'uplifting' and enforcing first contact is a terrible idea that always either leads to primitive species being taken advantage of (such as the hanar's 'kindness' or this scenario), a species that simply cannot integrate into our society because they have yet to master their own tendencies (krogan)

One of the few good things thats ever come of it is that now people are teensy bit more wary of it and this is probably why we gave up on the yahg after they murdered the first contact team and now hoping they don't stumble upon something (like a prothean cache) that speeds them up.


Radio silence obviously.