[BREAKING] Contact With Nubian Reestablished, Preparations Set for Formal Reintegration

Contact With Nubian Reestablished, Preparations Set for Formal Reintegration
via Hiveriex Asaida, Tayseri Times

[TEFNUT] As the naval garrisons around the relays are eased and the first government and private ships enter the picture that is emerging is one of a region dramatically changed. Historically a vast, largely contested portion of the galaxy the Attican of today is, if still fiercely divided, at least marginally less bloody.

After the Crucible Event two years prior and the collapse of the first galactic network the Traverse was fragmented. The dozens of secondary relays that bound worlds and sectors together gone, critical trade routes severed; a thriving, constantly shifting economy, still recovering from the damage sustained over the course of the Reaper War killed. Here, as in many places across the galaxy, many places which are still cut off from greater civilization as a whole, survival was difficult and progress had stagnated. Human and batarian planets were stranded together in the same clusters, bereft of all exterior support. Indigenous races, geth reserves, and PMCs shattered and confined.

But what occurred next was an unprecedented chain of events: multiple, corroborated accounts indicate that the Reaper battlegroups within the region worked from the outside in as it were; versus the pattern identified thus far of the interconnection of principal population centers followed by the colonies. Secondary relays were the first repaired, the process originating in clusters such as the Hades Nexus and Armstrong Nebula and progressing inwards towards the Nubian Expanse. Forming a distinct regional subnetwork with the Nubian at its core, a colossal trading hub. One that shortly came to be dominated by a number of shipping companies and cartels, merchant families, and independent trade Republics. Emerging to keep the peace and maintain the flow of credits and goods each maritime state maintains sovereign, if frequently coexistent routes, their own infrastructure, merchant marine, and security forces.

Within the Traverse and Verge it is these groups that control the relays; peripheral and subordinate entities vying for larger shares of the network as their larger cousins seek to maintain parity with their fellows. Yet, as arguably cutthroat as the Traverse remains, there have been a number of undeniable improvements: a significant number of the titanic stations above Tefnut have been repaired or are already in the process of reconstruction, and critical resources are being ferried easily and efficiently from star system to star system, alleviating the strain on internal logistics systems and allowing dozens upon dozens of worlds to persist as core manufacturing and agricultural worlds are restored to pre-War conditions. The vast majority of Traverse based merchant empires and republics have responded to exterior requests for access favourably. The station of Sevenfold Cataracts, already a neutral meeting ground for the various organizations to settle disputes, is hosting talks between interested factions such as the Confederacy, Systems Alliance, and Consensus as well as a bevy of PMCs, corporations, and Terminus States alongside the current rulers of the region.

The office of Admiral Hackett issued a statement supporting cordial relations with the nations therein reading “access to the Verge and our colonies there through conventional Relay travel provides critically needed support for our efforts on Earth and throughout humanity’s holdings. Our goal is to reach a diplomatic agreement in as short a time as possible while maintaining the primacy of our natural interests; we feel confident that we will meet said goal with time to spare.”

A sentiment echoed by many. Stated a geth program that wished to be identified as Armada, “Contemporary evidence indicates that positive increases in material/diplomatic connectivity between disparate states yields a multiplicity of notable benefits including easing of security demands, increased general standard of living, and economic stability.”

Primary relays connect with the network at the Ninmah Cluster, Pangaea Expanse, Exodus Cluster, and Kite’s Nest. Standardized Relay Passes as issued by the RTA are valid for use where applicable.

Brilliant.

oh god yes

this

this is the best news

Fuck, this thing includes Hiddekel's relay.

I did a fair amount of growing up on a wildcat colony out there. And now I finally get to find out how badly they starved. Let the awful process of constantly refreshing hoping for new information begin.

Woo.

Wonderful, but its yet to be seen how the new status quo will go down.

So we got Nubian, Hades nexus and Armstrong nebula at one cluster's price? Awesome. Let's see if there's any Alliance colonies left there or have they done something else in the meanwhile while lines were out.

Wonderful, wonderful!
That's the first time we see an inside-out approach by the... repair forces. (ugh, it's still awkward to say reapers).

Hahahahahahahahah.

Yessssssssssssss.

We've got Caleston back. We've got Eldfell-Ashland back. We've got the entire Verge.

Oh Hackett will play ball, cutting a deal with a Traverse merchant republic is low on the list of bitter pills the SA has had to swallow. Plus, they are willing to come to the table with us, best case scenario the SA can effectively "lease" part of their transport infrastructure which is, you know, another few billion credits we don't have to sink into just getting back to par.

The entire Goddamn Traverse back online you mean. And frankly it depends on where. The Verge? A strong Alliance presence, still a rough organizational structure, and likely enough battlegroups and divisions positioned there even at the close of the war to cobble together a working chain of command. Plus we already had a military convoy dispatched some months ago, in all likelihood they've helped stabilize the immediate situation. The real concern is groups that were in transit or stranded on independent worlds.

That particular reunification will be...interesting to see.

Time to reopen some trade routes...

Good news, let's hope it brings prosperity to all. :)

On a less galactic scale, the studio got a message from Jenny Jones letting us know she's okay, and hoping to get back here now the relay's open. (She was the ship's medical officer in Above and Beyond, had the scene with Josh Spears.)

My sister's cruiser was stationed out there. We're getting news that it's still operating.

Shit. She's alive.

This is good news.

Correction this is great news.

Great for you, really.

Hiddekel is listed as being a human colony < 1 year old.

The drell settlement there starved into total collapse during the long outage.

Hey, Sevenfold Cataracts survived! I've gotta visit.

Welcome back!
This is great news but we should not forget those who now find certainty about losses of those close to them.

We have seen this kind of approach for the first time, repairing a network first before connecting it to another hub. Maybe the Reapers get more efficient at what they do.

I do sound weird.