Codex - Council-Alliance relations

Saying that Shanxi was a crucial factor in the Alliance-Council relations is as trite as declaring that relationship having a rocky start.

Matriarch Anyssia T'Vanthi, leader of the Council diplomatic team despatched to mediate between the turians and humans managed to force through a solution that, true to most masterful diplomatic treaties settling such conflicts, did more to flame up unrest at the home of the involved parties, sweep the causes of problems under the rug, and pretend that every issue has been settled civilly, the whole regrettable incident being simply a minor case of miscommunication running slightly out of control before cooler heads prevailed.

The Turian Hierarchy was compelled to publicly admit their overzealous reaction, pay an acceptable sum of credits, hand over drive core schematics and relevant data, cover the resettlement costs of the Shanxi survivors to Bekenstein, and hand over a percentage of their annual eezo income for the next five years (starting from 12%, going to 8%, then 4% for the last three years) to the Alliance.

The Alliance was required to hand over data pertaining to the secureness of YY fusion plants, refrain from using the technology on any future colony before Council scientists pronounce the technology safe for common usage. Council inspectors were to be allowed into the already-existing such plants on colonies near Citadel space. The Alliance was required to draw up a plan to patent and share their laser technology within the next four years. Providing medical assistance to the turians suffering from the Shanxi substrain of pancreatic cancer was also agreed on.

Humanity was also required to sign both the Citadel Conventions and the Treaty of Farixen, the latter officially as a Council associate member with a stipulation that allowed the Alliance a parity with asari and salarian numbers if within the next 20 years the Alliance was attacked by any member of the galactic community and did not receive Citadel aid.

To the surprise of maybe only Matriarch Anyssia, both the turian and human public opinion went berserk. The turians campaigned for finishing the task Desolas Arterius started, maybe allowing the humans to become a client race with rights similar to the volus, if the humans surrender - and if not, burn their worlds one after the other. The moderate advisors of Primarch Arminius advocated for loosening the ties to the Council itself, citing the peace as a betrayal of every principle and sacrifice the Hierarchy stood for.

The humans, of course, wanted turian heads, more reparation, longer and larger eezo concessions, the Turian Hierarchy reduced to associate status, revision of the Treaty of Farixen, and to tell the Council to forget about access to human tech advancements. The Terra Firma party, along with ultraconservative and radical elements in the Alliance Parliament, almost managed to topple the Ivanov government. When the vote of no confidence failed, the already-present civil unrest spilled over to rioting on several key planets (no hard evidence was found of Terra Firma's direct involvement); in some cases, the riots escalated into full-scale uprisings lasting well over a year before being put down by the military.

The political situation was somewhat stabilized thanks to the actions of High Praetor Quentius of the Turian Hierarchy, Councilor Tevos of the Asari Republics, Gorlow Zayor, the unofficial head of the Spectre Corps, Fleet Admiral Wilfred Hartmann, and the Shadow Broker itself, who argued that a further escalation of the conflict was detrimental to all parties involved. With proper information provided by the Broker to the Council representatives about some of their less-than-reputable actions as well as delivering data on something its Network found on the Rim (and the fact that its actions were offered without asking for compensation), the loudest voices were soon shut down, allowing for rhetorics employing cold pragmatism, extolling the benefits of interracial commerce, the need for cooperations for mutual benefit. Turians were somewhat mollified when Councilor Tevos rebuked Matriarch Anyssia, announced the intent of the Asari Republic shouldering a third of the turian eezo debt towards humans (the humans argued against this, and officially there was no asari support. Unofficially, a number of asari Matriarchs invested into turian companies and colonies). The humans were silenced when the Fleet Master pointed out that while they are bound in terms of how many dreadnoughts the Alliance is allowed, but the treaty contained nothing about carriers - and as the Shanxi data proved, human las-tech was effective enough against kinetic barriers for using it in fighters.

Human-turian relations were somewhat somewhat improved by the actions of Captain Andrew Cord during the Dis Incident of 2163, when he forced a Batarian cruiser to break off pursuit of a Citadel science vessel. This may have been one of the reasons for the Hierarchy agreeing to cooperate with Cord-Hislop Aerospace in 2180.

(Δ EYES ONLY) The main decisive factor in the Council believing the Shanxi-Primus explosion and the resulting carnage was the data handed over from both the Irem Incident of 2085 and the Leng Excursion of 2087. The decision to share this data was met with heavy criticism from those opposing it, but Director K. Fuyutsuki went ahead with it, citing information supplied by the Noctis Laboratory. The reactions were partially predictable: the salarian STG detailed units to attempt information gathering, electronic surveillance, data mining, and appropriating human intelligence sources, all with very limited success. The asari Athamist cultists, mainly under the direction of Matriarch Benezia T'Soni adopted an extremely cautious probing of human prehistoric data, investigating religions and myths as well as embedding several asari into human society connecting to biotic technology and education.