- 23rd of October, 0 ABT
- Confluence - Commune Border Territory
- G-39 // Syangveld
- Floret, Confluent Banks Orbital
A forest of golden conifers in one of the endless mountainscapes of Floret’s continents. Though influence from many other worlds is here present, Earth’s example is still the most characteristic.
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Syangveld, also known as G-39 and technically designated as the [[G-39 // Syangveld]] Jointly-Managed Commune-Confluence System, was what most political scientists and diplomatic figureheads of both sides involved would have called a “sociopolitical experiment” born from a combination of misfortune and stubborness and continued through a mixture of curiosity and deprioritization.
In 412 BBT the relatively young F-type star became a point of major interest for multiple groups in the Hyrgaencher Shore, a region at the edge of the diffused Hyrgaench Nebula located in the spinwards mainlands of the Confluence: primarily hailing from the Spiral Commonwealth and the Nimid’palmun Empire, the various associations wished to detach from their polities to create their own in a new system of their choosing. Though originally separate, the groups of neo-colonists were compatible enough to be able to coordinate in their action and merge into a new polity - the Petalist Community - that could harmoniously settle in a new system as a single society. A number of industrious habships and construction vessels also adhered to the Community, and with their help the colonists made their way en masse towards Syangveld, ready to begin the construction of a new Orbital they could call home.
Some decades earlier, however, much the same had happened over in the Commune: various citizens from System G-26, feeling too complacent in their long-developed and auto-utopian worlds, decided to venture out and also make their way towards the metal-rich and electromagnetically quiet Syangveld (or, as they began to designate it, System G-39 ). Traversing their stargate connection to closer G-35, the colonist groups pushed the antimatter-fusion hybrid drives of their lighthuggers at full thrust and slowly sailed across the interstellar void at relativistic speed.
Due to a misfortunate alignment between the faster-than-light habships and the relativistic lighthuggers, both parties involved reached the system at the exact same time. It did not take long for the two groups to detect one another’s presence, and since neither had built any infrastructure or started their settlement procedures, their claim to the system was reciprocally challenged and unclear. Since the surrounding systems were all poor in heavier elements - and building a sufficiently large nucleosynthetic forge would have been an hassle - nobody was willing to relocate: compounded by their rather evident ideological differences, animosity started to grow and sour, so much so that it likely would have turned into hostility if the two common governments of the colonists’ civilizations hadn’t directly intervened in the matter.
After some diplomatic exchanges between the High Botanists and the Council of Foreign Affairs, it was ultimately decided that the system would be colonized by both groups: the Communalists would settle in the terrestrial planets of the inner system, while the Petalist Community would instead build their Orbital in the outer system. To ensure equitable energy distribution and system control, management of the central dyson swarm would be shared between Guard and Worship Of Twilight Strawberries, a diplomatic Dominion of the Confluence.
Though initially a rather precarious situation, over time this forced cohabitation evolved into something quite favorable: Syangveld//G-39 became the largest trading point between the Confluence and the Commune, as well as their most important location for diplomatic exchanges. It was because of this that the system was connected to the two civilizations’ wormhole networks through an astroduct and a stargate, so that communication and cargo traffic could flow through it with little impediment.
At the forefront of Syangveld’s diplomatic and political scene was Aldevelle Oshtre Ulbinam, official representative of Floret Orbital and the Petalist Community in all matters pertaining to foreign affairs.
Aldevelle was a genetweaked human, born and raised in the temperate forests of Cozon, one of Floret’s smaller continents. Even in her earlier childhood she expressed a certain fascination with artifacts and ancient objects of all kinds: when she became an independent adult and moved away from her family’s homestead, Aldevelle designed a large mansion on the rocky shores of lake Ileppu, built in a complex fusion of architectural styles and artistic influences from the ancient histories of many Founderkin and Flowkin civilizations. Her home’s size was not so much intended to accomodate other people: she lived alone, and though she had had multiple experiences with a wide variety of partners things had never properly worked out with them (though they often remained good friends). Instead, her grand manor served the purpose of being a vast gallery of art and rare objects from all over the Confluence and beyond, a living museum that frequently expanded and reshuffled as she acquired more and more cultural artifacts to display.
Making good use of her profound and extensive knowledge of the histories of many cultures and societies, as well as the many connections she had made for herself by hosting tours and dinners in her home, Aldevelle decided to run for the position of Petalist diplomatic representative after the previous one had decided to retire. She won the elections in 43 BBT, and kept re-winning the popular confidence vote every 5 years ever since then. Admittedly, things were relatively quaint in her system: though a trafficked and bustling location, a balance had been reached long before her time had come, one that could easily be kept stable by adjusting exports here and there or by modifying existing treaties a bit to be more accomodating to the whims of both her populace and G-39’s Council.
But now that balance was now being threatened, and handling it could very well prove to be harder than she could hope to predict.
As the Confluence made its way into the international stage proper after some centuries of passive isolationism, the retaliatory threats of the Covenant of Fire, the dangers posed by Dokavian jingoism and the terrorist attack in Cadeau Lumineuse warranted an increased military presence along border systems, especially those close to other civilizations or who served as important exchange points with foreign powers. Syangveld was the perfect example of such, and given the concealed animosity the Confluence held for the Commune, an upgrade to Floret’s defense systems, and increase in its own defense force and the stationing of quite more CAF warships than usual were essentially undisputably certain. However, this heightened military presence did not sit well with G-39’s Council, who shared similar if not heightened concerns with the other communalist systems sitting in the increasingly-militarized border volumes. To prevent worry and usual distrust from flowering into aggressiveness, the Petalist Community (especially after the not-so-subtle intimations by Worship Of Twilight Strawberries and their superiors) decided to nip it in the bud and open diplomatic talks as soon as possible to adress and hopefully solve these issues.
Aldevelle waited in a large, empty hangar on the outer surface of the Orbital: off in the distance of space, rapidly approaching, she could see Floret’s forcefields guiding the multi-kilometer Communalist lighthugger towards the entry port. It would soon pierce through the airwall and be docked by a lockfield, after which the representatives of the Council would disembark and meet her. She readied herself.
