A protest group active in Council Space post-Reaper War. They questioned the legitimacy of the Salarian Union's continued seating on the Citadel Council in light of the widely-decried actions of its government during the war (notably a lack of armed support).
Takus Tran, event coordinator for a AFS protest, summed up his group's position:
“A Council member’s duty is to protect Citadel Space as a whole. Where was the Union during the Reaper War? Where was it during the single most important threat the galaxy has ever faced? Nowhere, because Allied forces wouldn’t pander to their little games.”
The tone was similar at his Presidium protest, with over 400 members of various races calling for the salarians’ removal from the Council. Guest speaker Opheus Lonad (Hierarchy Tier 14, Palaven) had the following to say:
“[The salarians] can’t even feel our pain. Out of everyone in the galaxy, they’re the only ones with an intact homeworld, the only ones with a fully functioning industry. They should have been spearheading that war, but they could barely send a token resistance.”
At least one salarian protester at this event, speaking on condition of anonymity, stated that he was there as a reminder of his own species’ dissent from his government.
The protests were largely ignored by those uninvolved, though the salarian political body expressed mild contempt for the movement. Dalatrass Mendon (of Miscigle, Jaeto) noted covert actions taken by Union affiliates throughout the war and afterward made a statement condemning the protests:
“This is an outrage. If you think we just sat there during the war and did nothing, you are grossly mistaken...We kept the galactic economy running, and overtly supported our allies as best we could. We were conducting thousands of simultaneous operations to give us an edge on the Reapers, and the worst simply came to worst.”
Mendon declined to comment on the Union’s wartime operations, citing operational secrecy, though she further noted the salarians’ involvement in galactic reconstruction, and that the Council’s duties were not solely based in waging war.