[TUCHANKA] First Tuchankan Economic Summit Meets Begin

First Tuchankan Economic Summit Meets Begin
via Ghurst Rhay, The Ghurst Journal

[NEW GHURST] Tuchankan states and foreign representatives are meeting for the first time since the reconstruction of the relays to discuss economic policy and growth in Tuchanka.

The summit, which includes representatives from the Urdnot Coalition, the Northern Plains Alliance, the Republic of Ghurst, Corel Heavy Industries, the CDEM, and others, seeks to address current hotbed Tuchankan issues. Two major issues of contention are the development of aerospace assets in the DMZ and the use of natural resources in the DMZ. Other topics to be discussed are clan rights and claims on uranium deposits, private contracts for industrial redevelopment, among others.

Urdnot Kruz, Minister of Finance and representative for the Urdnot Coalition, said that he had “high hopes for this summit. The upcoming discussions will, if nothing else, pave the way for further discussions to be had. Personally, my hope is that we can establish an international economic union, but we will have to see how the discussions proceed before that will even be brought up.” The Urdnot Coalition has recently sponsored initiatives to decrease the barriers on trade between bordering clans. In addition, Urdnot Wrex himself has sponsored joint redevelopment of energy industries across the planet. Kruz went on to say that “Urdnot wishes to continue its policy of free international trade and joint development across Tuchanka. This trade strengthens not only domestic markets and , but also outside markets. It makes Tuchanka a true player in interstellar economics.”

When questioned on the inclusion of CHI in the summit, Kruz stated that “Corel Heavy Industries has been integral to recent krogan economic development & reconstruction efforts.” Ghurst Spek, financial analyst and Ghurst representative, stated that “The inclusion of Corel Heavy Industries is a merely a play for NPA & Urdnot interests.” Kruz denied the claims, retorting that NPA and Urdnot interests rarely interact and that Corel represents a huge sector of Tuchankan economics. “To exclude Corel would be idiotic.”

However, not all voices were optimistic.. Vynchar Kilz, a regional leader within the Northern Plains Alliance, claimed that “these talks are pre-destined to fail. The economic disparity between the states will turn the talks into an oppression convention, arguing about who needs help the most. In addition, this is a meeting to bridge economic gaps without any significant political unification. The economic and industrial realities of these states are so different that any economic action will completely benefit one power. The ‘free trade’ policies and joint ventures of the Urdnot Coalition have created a variety of miniature Urdnots, which will, unsurprisingly, be represented in these upcoming talks.” Gotheng Tirax, councilman to the Gotheng chief, will represent the Northern Plains Alliance in the summit.

The CDEM officials present were incredibly hopeful. Lt. Commander Petrus Vaelix said that “The summit could shape the political and economic landscape of Tuchanka for years to come. With the removal of our forces rapidly approaching, measures like this, no matter how informal they may be, let us rest easy.”

The meeting will be chaired by Urdnot Kruz, at the Urdnot capital. More to come as the summit progresses.

You know, whenever I hear about these summits I imagine there is less talking and more screaming and headbutting each other until the last person is standing.

Do most krogan even know what 'economic' means?

Probably not~

The krogan sector is still a DMZ? I thought this status had been lifted when they joined the war, for obvious reasons.

Anything to put Tuchanka up in the ranks. This is good news, though I have concerns about Kruz chairing the meeting. Isn't this the same krogan who paid off journalists to exaggerate exposés on wage distribution for krogan workers? Knowing what he's capable of, I'm actually starting to agree with the points Kilz is making, which is a sentence that I never thought I'd type.


You're a funny pyjak. If I ever got a hold of you, I'll grill you instead of fry you. Save you the pain.

Illium's sent 'observers', according to our local news; well, some of the news, the local volus press seems to be suggesting the team's going to be coming back with some kind of amazing investment opportunity in the bag, but whether they're just talking it up out of boredom, or setting ludicrous goals so they can call the mission's backers failures when they don't return owning half of Tuchanka, who knows? Maiden, I'd love to see the krogan delegates' expressions when the 'observers' start piping up about how they should be running the whole thing (because you just know they're going to, sooner or later). Hope they brought big bodyguards (or ones with the sense to clap a hand over their charges' mouths before they get themselves into trouble).

I've heard all about these sorts of things (non-krogan ones, I mean) from the people who get stuck attending them; believe me, if they could scream and headbutt one another, I'm sure they would, and it wouldn't really change the process a lot aside from making it more straightforward.

Threat of violence and threat of eating me

This is so incredibly krogan that it hurts. What are you going to do next threaten to trace my extranet activity and come to my shitty apartment and beat me up? lol


Just because you want to beat the shit out of someone doesn't mean you should. This is what separates us from the krogan. The ability to decide not to beat someone to death over slights.

Well there's headbutting and there's headbutting, if you follow me - your standard conversational interrupt headbutt is no more intended to injure a krogan than if we were to tell someone to shut up, it's just a kind of physical expression. We would see it as a violent attack, sure, but we don't have all that extra armour plating. Admittedly I got most of my exposure to krogan culture on Omega, not direct from Tuchanka, but it's not like they're polar opposites.

And so I see the Grand Whelp's merry little circus is off to a fine start. No friends but those the Whore had to pay for and so much of his former kin arrayed against him. Oh how his hearts must swell with rage; with some faint luck they might even burst.

One must pity the Ghurtlings for their situation I suppose; to be caught betwixt such factionality in a most vulnerable position bodes ill.

Violence has its place oh most Grand and Illustrious Scholar of the People. Surely a personage as well learned as yourself would know such things.
And pray tell you meager collection of plates and sinew, what do you know of the homeworld? What do you know of our wealth, our knowledge, our courts? Beyond the ash. Beyond the barrens and the waste and desolation what do you know of us?

The Council in their shining Citadel do love their titles and classifications so. Some names shall take time to scour away.

Kruz is a fool and a tool of his master and the charlatan knows his use well. He is a silver tongued beguiler. Playacting and miming not for us, not for those he calls brethren in his oh so formal addresses and reports, but for the alien, for the remnants of the garrison. It is their high opinion he and his lord crave and cultivate, not ours. The lessers, the wounded, and the clanless will see such approval raining down upon them and be it need, want, or simple vanity they will flock to the Urdnot standard. So seeking the light they will swell his cities and his armies.
Kilz will use the stage the Urdnot has so kindly provided to play a role of his own. But his musings and soliloquies are directed far closer to home than that of his counterpart.
Do you not have worthier targets for your wounded pride or has your crest simply not yet fused?
A foolish and insulting opponent to not yield well before such injury and a foolish, weak, and diseased warrior to not chain back his battlelust.
In some ways asari they very much are, but it would appear that you are not wholly devoid of knowledge on the subject. It is a response of a greater to an upstart lesser, or a prideful warrior to an equal who has overstepped his bounds. It is a reminder of place and propriety. Unless the recipient takes exceptional issue little comes of it save begrudging silence.

I like the idea. I don't know that I'll ever try and visit Tuchanka again, but if I did, it'd be nice for things to be at least a little more civilized.

I am wounded asari to hear that your stay on our bountiful homeworld did not measure up to your most refined expectations. Please forgive us, we have yet to clean up that unsightly mess that so offends your Republican standards.

Well, that's what I was going for. And cleanliness was far down on the list of my issues.

Indeed, that's one of the things there are special courses for if a diplomat is assigned to primarily krogan matters. A lot of species have similar non verbal techniques, very few so straight forward though.

I am wishing success for this summit so Tuchanka can move another step forward.

Come now, there's no need for untoward and underhanded allusions as to what your sensibilities found so disagreeable. By all means, speak freely asari.

Spare us favor and approval alien, we have no want and no use for it. This conclave is not for the betterment of Tuchanka, not for the healing of the waste or the cleansing of the ashen seas, it is for the primacy of the Fool and his blind bannermen. Vassals of the coin rather than honor, leashed to his purse strings and dependent on his whim. Oh they will call themselves independent, they will call their sovereignty sacrosanct but they will kneel and scrape all the same and a flick of an Urdnot claw will see them dance to that impious tune. All aided and abetted of course by your most high, most esteemed Council; for quite promises made and the sake of civilizing these dark regions.

But it matters not in the end. The Ghurstlings do despise we of the North but they spit in the stern, carven face of the South. Corel will not forfeit their foundries nor the keys to the frozen mines nor their brethren. And we, of course, will not abide by the Whore's decrees. And for every Clan the Urdnot subsumes, for each territory they shackled with pretty chains and gleaming locks, another will flock to the northern standards.

The Old Ways do not die easy deaths on Tuchanka

What a surprise - Urdnot hosts another ego-boosting, feel-good meeting between peoples. It's idiotic that the Noble Republic participate, but then, the politics of this planet have been largely idiotic since that slovenly dimwit Wrex took power in Urdnot. I'm honestly just surprised that so many tribes are willing to betray their ethics and their species to please a fat idiot.

The urdnot leader might be many things but an idiot is not amongst them, nor fat.