The joint council convened in Singapore facility's largest diplomatic reception space — the same room, expanded and reconfigured, where the entity civilization embassy had first materialized as physical reality years prior, where Rama and Sekar's anniversary celebration had gathered representatives from a civilization that had once fought Coalition for three centuries.
Now it held representatives from four.
Rodriguez chaired the session with the specific procedural care that had guided Coalition through its own most difficult internal debates — the compromise negotiations of Arc 2, the entity treaty ratification, every institutional battle that had eventually produced the durable partnership everyone in this room now understood as normal, unremarkable daily reality.
