Apien Crest
From FABT
 
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| Location: |
Nineteen Pillars of Ascension / Milky Way Galaxy |
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| Population: |
Over 35 billion |
| Species: |
Turian (home cluster) |
| Affiliation: |
Empire of Palaven |
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The Apien Crest is a cluster near the southwestern edge of Council space, and is the home cluster of the turian species. The cluster was located beyond the southern border of Inner Council space by 500 CE, although the Council races had no desire to expand beyond those borders at the time. This allowed the turians to expand from their home cluster with impunity, and after the Unification War, their induction into the galactic community was unexpected, but welcome as they joined the Krogan Rebellions on the side of the Council. The Turian Hierarchy went out of its way to strengthen their home cluster significantly, surrounding it with early warning posts, defensive platforms, fleet formations and scientific and military outposts, making the cluster the most heavily defended out of all the Council home clusters.
The Apien Crest was invaded by the Reapers shortly after the Fall of Earth during the Reaper War, and the cluster remained heavily contested for the rest of the conflict until the final Reaper defeat. It was invaded again during the Post-Apocalyptic War, where it finally fell to the Galactic Dominion, and remained under Systems Coalition occupation, and then later Tuchankan confederate occupation. After the Dominion Civil War, the Apien Crest returned to turian control again as the capital cluster of the Neo-Turian Empire, and has remained the center of turian civilization ever since.
The cluster is named after the turian mythological figure of Apien Parsaphonli, King of Quimus and champion of the Quimian people during the Quimian-Flopilian wars.