[C-Sec] Batarian C-Sec Officers On Patrol Again

[C-Sec] Batarian C-Sec Officers On Patrol Again

Vieht Ychtus – The Citadel Today

Citizens of the Citadel may observe a sight long missed these days, the first three batarian C-Sec officers on patrol in more than thirty years. While still in C-Sec Academy, officers Krol Ordosh, Goronak Karrt and Vayeva Purr will be out an about on duty as part of their training in their second year.

“We all came to the Citadel as refugees during the war and decided to stay.” Karrt tells us.

“My homeworld is completely destroyed, there is no place else to go,” Purr adds. “I want to make a difference here on the Citadel, since it is my home now.”

Asked about prejudices and obstacles, Ordush answers, “Of course we are still the ‘newbies’ on the block but someone has to make the first step. If we want to be seen as more than slavers and thugs, it needs someone setting an example. I received help from C-Sec officers when I needed it and I want to give something back.”

“I think all or colleagues at the academy accept us for what we do and no for what species we are. That’s the ideal of C-Sec,” Purr, the only female of the three adds.

For now, the three will be on patrol with experienced officers on Tayseri and Bachjret Wards. Commissioner Vecrius calls the three “extremely dedicated and eager to learn.” Their prior training and fighting experience shortens their education program and C-Sec plans on having them on hand wherever batarian culture specific knowledge is requested.

I for one am pleased to see the batarians welcomed back into C-Space. Nothing quite states it than being fielded in the elite Citadel Security. I just hope the experience mentioned in the article they have wasn't from StateSec, StateInt or SIU.

Oh. I'm sure they'll make fine officers. All you need to succeed as a C-sec officer is to abuse what little power you have and be as unpleasant as possible. Both things the batarians excel at.

Almost all C-Sec officers (especially Network division) are actually very nice people. They're all background-checked by their ambassador, and most have spent time in the military or the Law previously. Sure, one or two are as you describe, but the vast majority are just ordinary, underpaid people with a rather tiring job. Attitudes like yours really don't help.

For example, not all quarians are dispiriting and traitorous Pariahs (pun intended) - in the same way, most C-Sec officers are pleasant. The ones that aren't don't last long.

I myself welcome the addition of batarians to the Services. It is more about the job than the species; I'd like to think we [the galaxy as a whole] are less prejudiced about such things than a few years ago.

An interesting development.

But it disheartens me to hear that they believe that there is nowhere else for them to go. If any child of Khar'shan should find themselves adrift in galaxy, they are welcome here, or one of the many colonies our people have settled.

Hey, at least it'll be easier to get out a parking ticket now.

Or sapient trafficking charges, whatever.

A very positive development, and hopefully something we'll be seeing a lot more of. Goddess, it really has been thirty years...

It'd be nice to think Justice Directorate might be looking in a similar direction with regards to our own batarian and human populations, but that might be too optimistic even for me. :/

Excellent news! Casa'Verlanah! Especially regarding Salin-Shet Purr. I knew her grandfather once, I think! Or perhaps it was another. As far as bigotry goes, the hatred my own sustain due to past incidents, Khar'Alaq, when you make the Khar'Shan Delegation look like a peaceful and wonderful accepting unit of love and hope it makes me wonder, Ha'Let, who the real bigots are.

Our mutual hatred with the Humans was only circumstantial. Some batarians have not outgrown this, but much more common or perhaps more deadly are the humans who haven't either. They hold much more power - plus their planet survived.

Well, this is great to hear! Any citizen of Citadel Space with the drive, skills, and experience, who wishes to serve the people of the Citadel, should be allowed to apply to C-SEC. I'm sure these new Batarian officers will prove themselves able civil servants.

(I'd also like to add that, under the auspices of my bill to create a Citadel Defense Force, no potential member would be discriminated upon on the basis of race either. We would all be working together for a safer Citadel, like our friends in C-SEC!)

One problem I see would be the uniforms though, they should not force batarians to dress in blue! You'll almost never see a batarian wear blue around here (minus unaware tourists but they identify easy enough).
Imagine a group of blue batarians come to end a bar fight on Illium. That's hydrogen into a reactor.

What? Why not?

Because they'd be shot on sight?

Possibly strung up from a lamppost as an example, depending on the city.

Tides. Fuck the Suns.

I live on Omega and we actually have blue sun security at work, and they don't mind us wearing blue as long as we don't purposefully mimic their color theme.

Good point actually, the blue - hadn't considered that to tell the truth. Still, there's plenty of scope for variation in the uniforms, different arrangements of blues and greys even in the uniformed patrol and security departments. I remember hearing they'd specifically made allowances for a similar situation (although different reasons behind it), not long after I moved here they had an all-grey patrol uniform variant for a couple of orthodox Farsight asari they had back then. No reason the same solution wouldn't work again. Hypothetically of course.

I think she meant (overstating the severity of the reaction a bit, one hopes) that Eclipse would take umbrage. It's not that the Suns can't come here, but it's not... what you'd call a friendly port for them, those I've heard visit since the war have been directly about their business and left. A batarian (or human, come to that) in Suns colours - or near enough - moving about the kind of trouble-prone routes a patrol officer would naturally find herself on, that's not a recipe for a trouble-free walk.

The Blue Suns don't have a copyright on the fucking colour blue you dipshits. And batarians don't have a fucking monopoly on the Suns neither. If people can't tell the difference between C-tard blues and blacks and fucking mil-grade hardsuits with the company fucking logo plastered across the chest (in white!!) they probably deserve a bit of police brutality.

Last I looked the standard deployment SA marine hardsuit is blue too. How many times do people mistake them for human Suns huh? And do you think many Citadel pencilnecks mix up hard bastards like that with donut scoffing beat cops just because their in vaguely the same colour? Actually don't answer that I probably don't want to know...

Oh well a background check by an ambassador. I am so relieved that that potentially overworked ambassador is in charge of stamping a file with the word approved without every meeting any of these 'nice' people.


Oh how pitiful. I've survived exactly because I am 'not a nice person', nice delicate little quarian princesses are not welcomed in this galaxy. They cannot survive.


The more things change the more they stay the same. There may be a lot less living people in it then a few years ago. But the same fools are still running the show.

Funny, Fornax is telling me otherwise.

Well, to be entirely honest, someone who's a 'delicate little princess' in anything other than looks alone isn't a person I'd advise to go into the Fornax end of the modelling business. I'm not saying it's dangerous, but it's pretty mercenary if you know what I mean.

I don't think Enny`Cranzet vas Tendowment is really the best example for quarian integration...

But then again, neither is Pariah.

I love the insinuation that the Eclipse are incapable of distinguishing between two varying shades of blue and two completely different operations. Keep em coming! These are hilarious. Because, you know, we just wantonly murder, shit, I mean, I gots no control over my own hands! I shot a cop while typing this! Or maybe he was a Sun. It can be hard to tell since apparently my brains are made out of leftovers from a particularly undersupplied feast. I'm not even sure how I can muster up the intellect to communicate in verbal irony! Glory, I am too stupid for this, or for anything else that would involve effort, a working pair of eyes, and a brain larger than a helium atom.