While human civilization still reeled from numerous shocking events like the birth of a new Transcendent, EsoQuest Solutions finding a second infected world in ten days, and the impending Arakai Invasion, the Security Council quietly amended the recognition of the Arakai Web Civilization as an enemy of human civilization.
They quietly excluded the Pluralist Faction and certain cells within the civilization as not enemies. This had been done entirely on the order of the Chancellor of the Gaian Alliance, the Emperor of Water himself. The amendment recognized the Pluralist Faction of human civilization as a non-threatening party and its willingness to partake in a business relationship with the rest of human civilization.
It created the opening needed for the Emperor of Water to sign a free trade deal with the leader of the Pluralist Faction, Divine Mother ooo—o-, and have it ratified with the General Assembly.
