Galactic Politics - Peace 2158
Humanities introduction to galactic poltics was a trial by fire, and one that the quarians were ill suited to assist with. It didn't help that humanity and the quarians were now on the naughty list of virtually every species in council space, thanks to the war and the antics pulled by the ship full of POW's and Pilgrims. No one had stopped to consider that perhaps a few dozen starry eyed young quarians combined with some rather hacked off human POWs lead by a Admiral with a chip the size of the ship she had lost on her shoulder were perhaps the least diplomatic option around, aside perhaps from a ship full of angry krogan and vorcha.
To make matters worse in the eyes of the galactic community, neither humanity nor the quarians were the least bit apologetic about the hijacking, or the war in general. In fact, most of the Independent League's delegation seemed rather proud of the hyjackers, and more than one of the delegates was bragging that they had actually been participates in the whole affair, much to the consternation of the normally placid elcor and hannar. The entire situation would likely have ended in disaster for humanity and the quarians, if not for two canny young politicians who were in charge of the delegation.
Originally, sending a delegation lead by two individuals as young as Zaal'Koris and Donnel Udina had been intended as a slap in the face to the Council by heads still seething with anger over the rape of Shanxi and the humiliation of Pheiros. However, it was rapidly made apparent that both Udina and Koris were two of the most smooth tongued operators ever birthed by either of their species. Once the emissaries made it clear that further provocation during the peace talks was grounds for a long walk out a short airlock, things settled down.
While even the gifted duo couldn't hope to actually smooth things over completey with the council, they did manage to assure the salarians and asari, and even half convince the turians, that quarians and humanity were not complete monsters. Indeed, they managed to secure a lucrative trade agreement with the volus, and smooth over relations wiht the elcor and hannar enough that the two species opened embasies on Arcturus shortly after the peace talks concluded.
But perhaps their most astonishing coup was the Sentient Bill of rights and the recognition of the Independent League by the entire Council as a free power not bound by Council law as long as they operated outside Council space. The former would never have been possible without the latter, which was a document heavily based upon the Universal Bill of Human rights