Just to show I have not forgotten you my pitchfork wielding, growly children. I have a bit of worldbuilding here for ya! I'm already about five hundred words into the next proper chapter as well!
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CODEX: The Volus Commonwealth
In the wake of Irune's destruction, the Volus species was shattered both in population and in spirit. If it were not for the drive of a few of the most powerful surviving Volus, it is uncertain what would have happened to them as a people.
Luckily for both the survivors and the galactic economy that had already been in recession at the time, the majority of the Volus people's holdings were not on their homeworld, but diversified throughout the galaxy and within the galactic banking system.
This allowed the Volus to regroup, forming a new capital to the Vol Protectorate on the Volus colony-world of Talis Fia. However, the Volus, having received such a shock to their collective psyche, would not simply fall into old patterns. A new and more militant political climate agitated for change to the Volus as a people and for the Volus to step up and take their place in the galaxy more prominently.
The first signs of this were the creation of the Outsider Disaster Relief Fund and the Outsider Disaster Relief Task Force, to aid worlds also hit hard by Outsider attacks. The Task Force also supplied a great deal of employment to displaced Vorcha from the Terminus Systems as those hardy folk are not much affected by the toxic overspill from dead Kaiju and are thus best suited to clean up work after one is destroyed.
A further sign of changes was seen upon the creation of the first Exile-class dreadnought that would serve as the centerpiece of the Volus Rapid Reaction Force that moved throughout the galaxy aiding worlds that were not able to fully see to their own defense and serving as a way for the Volus arms manufacturers to supply hard-pressed areas with additional munitions at a substantial discount.
It all became official in 2520 when the Vol Protectorate and the Turian Hierarchy officially dissolved their treaty that made the Protectorate a client state of the Hierarchy and replaced it with a new treaty tying the two powers together as close allies who lend each other mutual support, but neither side owes fealty to the other.
2520 CSD thus also saw the creation of the successor to the Vol Protectorate, The Volus Commonwealth, with a new capital on the former colony world of Talis Fa. This new power maintains the massive Volus Trade Fleet, but now supplements it with a new Volus Military fleet and ground based Army.
Having been tempered by the fire, the Volus people came through stronger than before have taken a prominent role in galactic politics in every arena.
If the current trend continues, political analysts say that the Volus may gain a seat on the Citadel Council within fifty years or less.
