The UTA diplomatic team consisted of a single diplomat from each sophont, Human, Dolphin, Canid, and Sanhanae. The Dolphin, Never Swam, was in a sleek white floating suit, his arms covered in water held by a thin mass effect field, and a star with a dolphins head in the middle indicated he was a practitioner of the Light of Life religion. The Canid, Jux, was in a deep red skintight outfit the color signifying his planet of birth, Mars, he was a Malamut breed. The Sanhanae, Roka, was wearing nothing, only his brilliant indigo and orange plumage, and sweeping red and green head crest. Rex Shepard, the Human, he wore a steel grey outfit with the UTA insignia, showing the hands of each sophont coming together to hold the Earth.

They were docking at this moment, and soon, they would meet the councilors of the Citadel. The doors opened, a large table was present, and doors on the opposite side. Out from the other doors came the other diplomats.

Councillor Tevos of the Asari, Councillor Edern of the Salarians, Councillor Sparatus of the Turians, and Councillor Cuhi of the Batarians.

They each took they're seats, and the Councillors each pulled up a file on they're omnitools.

Tevos spoke first. "Greetings from the Citadel, I apologize but, I only know your names and species, I hope to get better acquainted."

Rex nodded, and Never Swam made a series of clicks, representing approval. Rex spoke first,"As do we, I would like to ask, why were we attacked in the first place?"

Sparatus spoke up, though his voice was full of disdain,"My people found you trying to activate a dormant Mass Relay, a series of ancient devices banned from use due to the risks of discovering a hostile species, we were merely upholding our laws,"

Never Swam made a few clicks, then shook his head from side to side,"My people have a saying,'To know what is the code, and break the code is a crime, to be ignorant of the code, and commit the crime, is innocence', My point being, if we had known that we were committing a crime, we would not have activated the Relay, but why attack, why were we not given a chance to explain ourselves?"

Sparatus really didn't want answer that, Desolus Arterius, the one who should have been here, who should have been answering these questions, was torn apart by a warbeast of the avian race, the Sanh-whatever.

"The turians assumed you a primitive species, a possible client race, not a coalition of advanced species." Edern answered, knowing the turian was too proud to admit the truth.

A growl was heard at the table, coming from Jux,"You mean to tell me, you have a First Contact situation, and you see a potentially profitable slave race!" He was growling deeply. All Canids were highly opposed to slavery, considering their ancestors to have been oppressed for thousands of years, going so far as to not work if they see they will not be rewarded equally.

Never Swam reached out and patted the Canid on the head, the Canid calming,"Remeber Jux, seek peace, not anger my friend."

Roka finally spoke up,"Enough of this, I wish to know if we will receive proper reparations for this war," his tone spoke of absolute authority.

Sparatus really didn't seem to care though,"Reparations? I would expect the bending of the Hierarchy into a client race would be payment enough,"

Never Swam seemed to get a little annoyed at the shiny aliens attitudinal ways,"You seem to forget, in the last few weeks of the war, when it became evident you would lose, one of your ships bombarded a Dolphin colony world, Seas of Algae, with asteroids from the nearby belt, and killed millions of Dolphins, Canids, Humans, and Sanhanae, we deserve help in rebuilding that world,"

Tevos spoke up and was incensed at the way Sparatus was acting,"Sparatus, I would like it if you left this meeting, you only seem to be a hindrance at the moment."

"But-"

"Now," Edern interrupted, angry at the turian.

Sparatus stomped out of the room into the pod, waiting for the meeting to end.

"Finally, he was becoming a real crook in my back, and don't worry, reparations will be paid, and we will offer a council seat to your lead race."

Rex answered, his steely expression never changing,"I'm sorry Tevos, we will accept the reparations happily, but I don't think that's going to happen."

Tevos was confused and frowned, she wasn't expecting this,"Why not, if I may ask?"

Never Swam answered,"You see, you are an unequal society, you offer us a seat only because you fear our might, but we have no reason to harm you, yet. Your law stipulates genetic engineering is illegal, but if we see fit to, we will uplift a race, and guide them. The Batarian Hegemony somehow gets around your laws, and commits open slaving operations, your bureaucracy gets very little actually done, and we cannot accept due to the fact there is no lead race, we are all sophonts, and as such deserve equality, we share, we help each other, we love each other, and that is why we will not join you, though we can become mutual partners, traders, and allies in general."

Cuhi though was furious,"We do no such thing, those are pirates and we have not-"

Jux growled deeply, and bared his teeth,"Shut your lying trap, or I will tear out your tongue and feed it to my pups, they have never had xeno tongue, perhaps yours shall be the first."

Cuhi shut up at that.'You don't insult the Hegemony, you'll find out soon enough.' He thought maliciously.

Edern decided to speak up,"We would still like to have an ambassador from each of your races, if that is agreeable?."

Rex smiled for once, and agreed,"That could work, and I think this diplomatic meeting has solved what we've come for."

Tevos nodded, and sighed, weary from the fear something bad could happen,"I believe so, I hope you each have a wonderful day."

"May the eternal light protect, and may your womb be filled with new life at each opportunity."

Tevos didn't know what to make of the aquatic aliens goodbye, but she answered with a religious good bye as well, "May the Goddess protect."

And with that they left, each pondering what would happen next.