[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.

... yeah, did not see that one coming. I wonder how the quarians will react, when they sort out thier issues that is.
But it is telling that a salarian headed think tank is making plans for another "war of extermination".

Politics make the strangest bedfellows, and this pact between hiveminds and machine verily testify to this saying! Not to mention the initiative geth have taken without consulting their 'allies' the quarians. The true lords of Rannoch show their fangs and thrust aside the sickly remnants, and I wonder what will follow as the quarian government collapses on its own impossibility?

As for the Rachni themselves, I look forward with interest what deals they can offer to the Na'Hesit, who struggle with disobedient drones!

...bwahahahahahahahahhaAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH

HAH

oh my god

I can literally feel the collective galactic asspain

heeheehee

Initiate CLEAR WEATHER frequencies. Re-engage cartomancy. STUDENT'S PROGRESS IS UNSATISFACTORY. Revise. Resubmit. Notation: sequential procession is important.

Appended material: http://cerberusdailynews.com/valiant/forum/board/thread/?t=2163&o=0#12

I'm going to be calm about this. I've learnt my lesson after the last six months of panicking. I'm thinking things through - very, very rapidly - and I'm trying to convince myself that this isn't cause for alarm. I mean, the geth are our allies now, they've been very helpful, and, er, like I said in the other thread, we're all in a rachni-style boat now, aren't we?


You're not helping, Mr. Aleksanders.

You knew about this, you infernal machine, didn't you? I read what that hanar wrote about your "cartomancy" trick - it went completely over my horns, for what it's worth, but never mind.

Were you planning this all along? Are you mocking us?

Can't you for once try to put the rest of us at ease and stop with the whole "we could conceivably kill you all if we want to, and we all know it" act?!

Unified front! It's not that hard a concept, you idiots!

Okay, I'm panicking again. Sorry.

An odd place for a geth to leave vague hints to secret pacts of cooperation, but I have seen much more confounding things in my lifetime!

It thinks its smarter than us. It finds it amusing. Or something.

I knew that thing couldn't be trusted. I mean, I said as much, didn't I?

But I-

just-

It's just too perfect. Everyone spent a week lining up with roses to have a chance to be the rachni's Next Top Diplomatic Ally; all those people set to wine and dine the Hives

and then they lose. They preemptively lose.

To the geth.

Aka the species that everyone assumed was perfectly happy babysitting the quarians and crunching numbers.

It's just so, so beautiful.

To give in to trust is to give in to betrayal, salarian! I thought it was taught to you since birth by your sisters?

The geth are an enigma to us, they do not share our motivations or desires, and with greater reason they should be regarded as unreliable, more than our own. Extend one arm and keep the other armed, lest you want a collar on your neck and ticket to the mines!

It took 100 years to form EU from its humble beginings as a free trade area as it was until before the war, out of 20 something nations that were only superficially different.
The galaxy will not join into collectivist body just because it comes natural to you and your allies. I mean, just look at your quarian allies. You have thrown them into confusion with your unilateral move. Just in case you didn't notice, you geth aren't living in a (figurative) vacuum anymore.

I'm with you on this. .

Especially when you add the we think atypically and the C-Space screwed us over aspects and it just makes even more sense.

Though seriously quarians. "Geth continue to do stuff without your permission" is not shocking, not surprising, not weird.

Human, please, what exists on Rannoch is not a pact of equals, but that of lesser and stronger, and the geth are the ones dictating terms. You could say even that the geth have a hegemony in the Perseus Veil region.

Oh my God put your raging capitalist boner away before it puts someone's eye out. Jesus Christ that's just obscene.

I know right? I mean nobody pegged it beforehand (me included) even though it makes so much goddamn sense in hindsight. It also helps that geographically they're fairly close. The Far Rim and the Ninmah are a relay jump at most. So together that's, what? A solid allied bloc taking up a good chunk of the Traverse and Terminus? Plus that's two, two major races who will be literal military and industrial juggernauts inside a decade or two outside of the Citadel.

Such a beautiful friendship just brings a tear to my eye.

sniff

Shhhhhushushsuh. She didn't mean it former members of the Illustrious Migrant Fleet. We still take you seriously as a nation.

That... that is a surprise, I didn't see it coming at all. Um... I don't really know what else I could say.

Nature of Consensus based decision making processes dictates participants be aware re: nature of subjects of debate. Answer affirmative by definition.
Self evidently.

Knowledge [factual; critical; esoteric; et al] is to be utilized/applied/developed. Knowledge unutilized equals knowledge wasted.

Self evidently.

One to one equivalency does not exist between synthetic species: Geth and organic entities. Lack of parity does not negate possibility of analogous desired outcomes/comprehensible motive factors. Allegorical maxim identified by User affirmation of practical policy versus superior quote/unquote "wisdom".

User's assertions re: defiance of Sol-based organic polity: European Union to pan-galactic geopolitical shifts coupled with macro-scale extrapolation to support affirmation re: organic independence of minimal relevance to reference concerning cartomancy.

User: Schmidt Solutions's input relegated to lowest tier of importance.

User: Schmidt Solutions's input discarded.

User is encouraged to conduct inventory re: quote/unquote "wet" information storage given high incidence of extant junk data therein.

Which migrant fleet by the way, there's two that can apply, one being defunct as an entity however. I will echo the sentiments that the conclave/admiralty should just shut up about it though, the geth are their own political entity no matter how much you bitch and whinge.

I'm a little curious on how they managed to pre-empt just about everyone on that alliance thing though, I mean, there's the translation problem. But assuming this deal has been in the works that was likely solved beforehand which pre-emptively answers my question so...

At any rate, this is good news to hear. Still surprising, but good nonetheless.

I'm eagerly anticipating Pariah's response to this. What do you think, incoherent screeching or literally frothing at the mouthport?

I love this. This is why you become a diplomat, thinking ten moves ahead and then discovering you were playing an whole other game all the time, or maybe you are not, and you just pretended not to know so you they do not know you do have the capability to do so. Reversely maybe you act like you did know even if you did not so they get paranoid. In short everyone here is real busy.

On a side note people who are 'totally' surprised about the whole geth/rachni alliance did not think of the entire probability space, especially when considering how the geth were first to respond. Sure it was not a prime scenario but neither was it unexpected once we heard about the Consensus fleet.

Anyhow, excited where this going to go next.