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Council

20 entries tagged Council, 20 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Citadel and Saren Arterius.

Spectre Requisitions: the Council's quiet quartermasterInside the Spectre Office of the Citadel Embassies, a requisitions kiosk sold Council agents the finest weapons in Citadel space. During the Reaper War it also brokered deniable purchases of stolen schematics, black market dog tags, and salarian secrets that no government could afford to be seen selling.
Spectre Terminal: the console where Council authority met a city at warIn the Spectre Office of the Citadel Embassies, a single secure terminal carried classified intelligence and requests for Spectre authorization through the Reaper War. Its entries ranged from quarian fleet movements and grim financial forecasts to pardons, commendations, and one asari huntress asking for a sidearm.
Armando-Owen BaileyArmando-Owen Bailey was a human officer of Citadel Security stationed in the Zakera Ward, a no-nonsense lawman who rose from a neglected beat officer to a Commander overseeing security for the Citadel Embassies during the Reaper War.
Battle of the CitadelThe Battle of the Citadel was the climactic engagement of 2183 in which the rogue Spectre Saren Arterius, guided by the Reaper Sovereign, attempted to seize the Citadel and open a path for the Reaper invasion. Commander Shepard and the Citadel and Alliance fleets stopped the attack at great cost, and its outcome shaped galactic politics for years afterward.
Citadel ConventionsThe Citadel Conventions were diplomatic accords drawn up after the Krogan Rebellions to regulate weapons of mass destruction. They forbade their use on habitable garden worlds and graded such weapons into tiers of concern, though many militaries kept stockpiles anyway.
Citadel CouncilThe Citadel Council was the executive committee that governed Citadel space from the Citadel Tower, composed of representatives of the asari, salarians, and turians, and was the ultimate authority over Council law, interspecies disputes, and the covert Spectre agents.
CitadelThe Citadel was a colossal deep-space station in the Serpent Nebula that served as the political and cultural heart of Citadel space and the seat of the Council. Long believed to be a Prothean relic, it was in truth a Reaper construction and a dormant trap at the center of galactic civilization.
Donnel UdinaDonnel Udina was humanity's ambassador to the Citadel Council and, in some accounts, its first Councilor. A cautious political operator obsessed with human advancement, he ended his career as a traitor in a Cerberus coup.
Entertainment: Culture and amusement across the galaxyThe peoples of the Milky Way produced a vast and varied culture of films, plays, books, magazines, music, sports, and games for their own amusement. From an all-elcor staging of Hamlet to the hanar action hero Blasto and the beloved romance Fleet and Flotilla, entertainment crossed species lines and revealed how each race saw itself and its neighbors.
Krogan RebellionsThe Krogan Rebellions were a decades-long war between the krogan and the Citadel Council that began around 700 CE, sparked by unchecked krogan expansion onto worlds claimed by other races. The conflict ended with the deployment of the salarian-engineered genophage, the surrender of the krogan, and a Council seat awarded to the turians.
Nihlus KryikNihlus Kryik was a turian Spectre of the Citadel Council and the agent who nominated Commander Shepard for the order. He died on Eden Prime, shot in the back by his former mentor Saren Arterius.
NoveriaNoveria was a frozen world chartered for research too dangerous to perform elsewhere, where Commander Shepard tracked Matriarch Benezia, uncovered a revived rachni queen, and recovered the lost Mu Relay coordinates.
Rachni WarsThe Rachni Wars were a series of conflicts beginning around 1 CE, after a Citadel expedition opened a dormant mass relay into the territory of the rachni, a hostile hive-minded insect species. The Council races fought a losing war for nearly a century until the salarians uplifted the krogan, whose numbers turned the tide and drove the rachni to extinction.
Saren ArteriusSaren Arterius was the longest-serving turian Spectre of the Citadel Council and a feared agent of galactic order, until he fell under the influence of the Reaper Sovereign. As Sovereign's indoctrinated agent he led the geth against the Citadel, and his defeat fell to Commander Shepard.
Shadow BrokerThe Shadow Broker was an enigmatic figure at the head of a vast organization that trafficked in information, always selling to the highest bidder. By ensuring no client ever gained a lasting advantage, the Broker kept the galaxy trading secrets and itself in business, its true identity hidden for decades.
SpectreSpectres were agents entrusted by the Citadel Council with extraordinary authority, including the power of life and death over the galaxy's people. Operating outside the law to preserve galactic stability, they were drawn from the finest operatives of the Council races and answered to no one but the Council itself.
SpectresThe Spectres were an elite corps of agents granted extraordinary authority by the Citadel Council, charged with preserving galactic stability by any means necessary. Officially above the law and answerable to no one but the Council, they were hand-picked for exceptional ability from across the species of the galaxy.
TevosTevos was the asari representative on the Citadel Council during the era of Commander Shepard, a diplomat and compromiser who nonetheless placed the welfare of asari space above the interests of her allies.
VirmireVirmire was a lush, tropical frontier world in the Terminus reaches where Saren Arterius built a secret research base, and where Commander Shepard learned the true purpose of the Reapers before destroying it.
WardsThe Wards were the five great arms of the Citadel, residential districts each home to millions and dense as the cities of old Earth. Sealed against vacuum and tended by the keepers, they could be closed to fold the station into an impenetrable cylinder.