Attican Beta
From FABT
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Nineteen Pillars of Ascension / Milky Way Galaxy |
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Roughly 2,000 |
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Batarian People's Republic |
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Attican Beta is a cluster near the northeastern edge of Alliance space, closest to the Attican Traverse. In the asari cycle, Attican Beta lay far to southeast of Inner Council space, and thus was never explored for the potential of colonization by the Council races: however, the cluster was swiftly annexed by Batarian People's Republic during their second expansion throughout the 14th Century CE, with Attican Beta being used by the batarian military for territorial defense. The loss of the Attican Beta cluster during the Quarian-Batarian War brought the war to an end, with the cluster being briefly occupied by quarian forces before they withdrew back to quarian space, leaving it unoccupied once more. Attican Beta would not be colonized again until the late 2170s, when the Systems Alliance completed its expansion into the Skyllian Verge following the Skyllian Blitz the year before.
Attican Beta would be subject to an incursion by geth heretic forces during the Eden Prime War, and would be invaded and occupied by the Reapers during the Reaper War following the Fall of Earth. The cluster transferred to Systems Coalition control after the Alliance's dissolution, and remained largely unaffected by the wars of the Dominion Era, aside from a brief raid by a Covenant battlegroup in 2251 CE, and several clashes between loyalist and separatist forces within the cluster during the Dominion Civil War.
The cluster is named after the historical region of Attica, home of the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens. Beta is the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet. In essence, the cluster's name means "2nd Attica".