The Terminus Systems

The Terminus Systems are located on the far side of the Attican Traverse, beyond the space administered by the Citadel Council or by the Systems Alliance. These systems are populated by a loose affiliation of independent nations, united only in their refusal to acknowledge the political authority of Either or adhere to their laws, the Citadel Conventions and the Alliance Constitution respecitvely.

Their independence comes at a price; the Terminus is fraught with conflict. War among the various species is common, as governments and dictators constantly rise and fall. The region is a haven for illegal activities, particularly piracy and the slave trade. The prevalence of batarian criminal gangs has led to the batarian languages becoming "lingua franca" in the Terminus. The Terminus Systems have no central government, but the Omega station serves as a trade capital.

Before the Alliance expanded into the nearby Attican Traverse, At least once a year, a fleet from the Terminus invaded the Traverse. These attacks were typically small raids against poorly-defended colonies. The Council rarely retaliated, as sending patrols into the Terminus Systems could unify the disparate species against their common foe, triggering a long and costly war. The alliance, however, has installed expensive orbital defenses.

Despite the dangers, Citadel races have not been deterred from traveling through and even extensively colonizing the Terminus Systems themselves. Since the Citadel Council's authority is nonexistent, these colonies are often fully independent from any interplanetary government. The alliance has took sizable areas from the terminus, and the original residents evacuated. The Terminus Systems also encompass heshtok, the homeworld of the vorcha, and before the expantion, the quarian-geth homeworld of Rannoch.

Before the Alliance expanded into the Voyager Cluster, the turians mapped the Terminus Systems in great detail using an interferometric array, with one end at the planet Eletania and the other at the planet Gromar.

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