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SO 33, nearly directly rimward of SO 14, and rimward-trailing of SO 13, is largely devoid of interesting features save for a lush terrestrial suitable for carbon-based life. Approximately composed of 60% ocean to 40% landmass, with much of the landmass covered by dense jungle or forest terrain, the planet appears to be eminently suitable for colonization. However, the Explorer Corps does not classify this terrestrial as a garden world. On the planet's surface is a large, abandoned complex of Precursor design. The complex's purpose is unknown, but it is large enough to have been a significant undertaking. Especially given the stark reminder of the risks of xenoarchaeology presented by Amalinya, the recommendation of the EC is to ban colonization of SO 33 entirely. Until the complex is cleared and its purpose discovered, the planet cannot be considered safe.

SO 34, coreward of SO 4, is host to what on first glance appears to be an unusually-dense asteroid field, but on closer examination are the remains of a shattered terrestrial planet, destroyed a time estimated between ten million and thirty million years ago. The Explorer Corps has issued an emergency travel ban on SO 34, but does not consider it to pose a serious risk given the obvious age of the cataclysm. Nonetheless, it is the recommendation of the EC that a civilian travel ban remain in effect until a forensics team can be dispatched to determine the cause of the calamity on SO 34-VI.
These two systems are incredible finds. Two research opportunities that, once depleted, will continue to be useful afterwards as a garden world and high quality mining system. Goddamn I want them sooner rather than later. But I guess it's going to be a while.

On an unrelated note, I've noticed that there was zero mentions of the Rachni this update. I'm getting paranoid from the quiet.
 
[X] Businesslike. There has been quite enough drama over this already. Get in, get your answers, get out. You can take corrective measures at your leisure.
 
[ ] Friendly. These people are clearly dealing with a lot. Get them to see you as their friend, and open up to you. You'll get more information that way, and maintain a less terrifying reputation.

Carrot before the stick?

The real question is whether the Lystheni will become a bigger problem now that we are visibility hostile to them.
 
Potentially, although this reads more as if they're preparing for an imminent war than anything else. That's what I get from...

It seems like we accomplished our objective well enough, we just did it in such a way as to ring basically every alarm bell the Lystheni had.
Honestly, the Lystheni deciding to YOLO-charge our prepared defenses would be fine with me. Given our relative financial and military bases they are the ones who should have to smile and tolerate our bad behavior, not the other way around. If it takes a war to drive that point home then I'm bummed about the loss of life but I'm happy to get it over with now. It's not like their behavior will improve once they complete the development of whatever super-science is going on at the secret facility.
 
Uh, no, our Intrigue Minister is informing us about another, entirely different volus who is a robber baron.
I think 'Robber Baron' is a bit too negative to jump to at this point. While 'she' is definitely attempting to monopolize an industry, she's not necessarily doing so with 'evil' intentions.

That's not to say she won't make some morally objectionable decisions in the future, but she is (presumably) trying to save the economy. If she manages to help us do that she's probably, she'll have earned some leeway. At least, in my opinion.
 
Y'know, the capitalist robber barons of the 1800s weren't pure evil, they were just ruthlessly effective businesspersons. Like this volus.

The term 'robber baron' isn't like 'serial killer' or anything, y'know.

[X] Imposing. You are going to put the fear of you into this team. That they were experiencing difficulties of this magnitude and you're only now finding out is unforgivable. Come down in an aura of menace and restrained fury.

Edt: The Lystheni have just themselves to blame
One, moratorium's still up.

Two, remember that this vote ISN'T about dealing with the Lystheni.

Remember, this is how we deal with the research team that somehow says they need a giant army of soldiers, including oceangoing battleships apparently. They almost certainly wouldn't be calling for this kind of muscle if there weren't a very real problem. And unless they're the dumbest goofballs who ever lived (unlikely given that they were selected for this project), the odds are good that the problem isn't entirely of their own creation.

So on the one hand, by all means, we need them to recognize they've screwed up and are in the doghouse... But at the same time, we don't want to create a situation where the NEXT time a research team runs into some disastrous terrifying threat that urgently needs our help to get under control, they're too afraid to call for help. And hold off on calling us until it's too late and whatever they're researching has broken loose and Cerberused them.

So I favor...

[ ] Businesslike. There has been quite enough drama over this already. Get in, get your answers, get out. You can take corrective measures at your leisure.
 
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[x] Businesslike. There has been quite enough drama over this already. Get in, get your answers, get out. You can take corrective measures at your leisure.

Bigger fishes (lizards?) to fry.
 
@PoptartProdigy Given the hostile takeover, I'm curious about financial law for Vimire. Are anti-takeover tactics like the poison pill and staggered boards illegal for Virmirean corporations?
Prior to the Rachni War, the galaxy was in a state of true frontier-ism, and Virmire has had better things to do than address that. Such tactics are not illegal, but neither is (virtually) anything else. The field is extremely clear. Even anti-trust laws are...well, Irune Foreign Development basically wrote them, by way of the Vol Union. How rigorous do you think those laws are?
Wait so our Intrigue Minister is a Robber Baron?
Welp, time to push for antitrust laws.
No, your Intrigue Minister is San Shurna, who has no business interests. She just spent the update informing you about an up-and-coming businesswoman.
 
[X] Friendly. These people are clearly dealing with a lot. Get them to see you as their friend, and open up to you. You'll get more information that way, and maintain a less terrifying reputation.

You know, if we really intend on going after the Quarians diplomatically, allowing a few monopolies to form for a type of informal oligarchy might be beneficial, especially if they actually answer to us and are mostly-loyal (realistic expectations here).
 
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[X] Friendly. These people are clearly dealing with a lot. Get them to see you as their friend, and open up to you. You'll get more information that way, and maintain a less terrifying reputation.
 
[x] Businesslike. There has been quite enough drama over this already. Get in, get your answers, get out. You can take corrective measures at your leisure.
 
Oh, it's a joke about the Volus being rotund and suited. Got it.

Um...wait, what? Different names were used for the two individuals throughout that section of the update. At no point did anyone (except you, apparently) get them confused. What are you talking about?
 
[x] Businesslike. There has been quite enough drama over this already. Get in, get your answers, get out. You can take corrective measures at your leisure.
 
[x] Businesslike. There has been quite enough drama over this already. Get in, get your answers, get out. You can take corrective measures at your leisure.
 
[X] Businesslike. There has been quite enough drama over this already. Get in, get your answers, get out. You can take corrective measures at your leisure.

Lets not allow Monopolies to form. They tend to be a bad idea for people who don't own them.
 
[x] Businesslike. There has been quite enough drama over this already. Get in, get your answers, get out. You can take corrective measures at your leisure.

We aren't the Empress (yet) and we aren't their mom. Professional, competent, and not provoking emotional reactions out of a group of people whose stability is currently shaky.
 
[X] Businesslike. There has been quite enough drama over this already. Get in, get your answers, get out. You can take corrective measures at your leisure.

Lets not allow Monopolies to form. They tend to be a bad idea for people who don't own them.

Sometimes infrastructure monopolies are necessary due to matters of scale and practically. Such should always be run by those with actual incentive to keep service/product quality high and cost low. In most cases this means the state (costs down for their budget, quality up for, variously, military use, beuroctatic use, or bribing voters.)... Mind you, Then you have to make sure funds needed to keep it running can't be.... Reallocated. (Improperly set up state pension funds are prone to that problem too.)

Monopolies aren't inherently bad, just horribly abuseable if not correctly managed/regulated. (Needless to say, the Abuses are bad.)

[X] Businesslike. There has been quite enough drama over this already. Get in, get your answers, get out. You can take corrective measures at your leisure.
 
[x] Businesslike. There has been quite enough drama over this already. Get in, get your answers, get out. You can take corrective measures at your leisure.
I changed my vote
 
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