Skyllian Verge
From FABT
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Bottom right, Milky Way Galaxy |
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Batarian People's Republic |
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September 1, 812 CE |
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The Skyllian Verge (pronounced in Farhi as "SKILL-I-N", but pronounced in English as "SKILL-E-N"), known on Council star charts as the Uncharted Worlds and to the Alliance as the Disputed Regions, was an historical region that existed within the southern and northern regions of Alliance space and Hegemony space respectively. While not disputed until much later, the actual region itself had existed since the Treaty of Etamis. Following the Terminus Revolutions, the Citadel Councill was forced to make numerous concessions for the now independent Terminus Systems, largest of which was to cede control over their northern territories, formerly known as Outer Council space. However, the Terminus also demanded the creation of a buffer zone which had to be demilitarized by both sides and to check what they called as "possible later Council aggression", which they viewed as inevitable once the Council had sufficiently recovered economically and militarily from the Krogan Rebellions. This zone saw most of Inner Council space reduced significantly, but most importantly, areas that had never been colonized by the Council were now also part of this new buffer zone, and could never be colonized by either side: the Council named this region of the Traverse as the "uncharted worlds", and would go on to be called the Skyllian Verge (a name chosen for its presence within what Council astronomists called the Skyllian parallel, itself named after the Skyllian Colossus on Thessia, and the fact that it lay on the "verge" of Council space).
Throughout galactic history, the Skyllian Verge was a desirable territory that many sought out for its rich abundance of garden worlds that were ripe for colonization, but couldn't due to their presence in the Traverse. However, this hesistance to touch these regions first began to erode with the rise of the Batarian People's Republic in the early 12th Century CE, who believed they needed colonies in the Verge in order to cope with their overpopulation, and expand their economy. The batarians viewed the Verge as "rightfully theirs", and had no qualms about violating the Treaty of Etamis when they began to expand into the Verge throughout the 13th and 14th centuries. Their expansion was finally checked by the early 16th Century CE with the end of the Quarian-Batarian War and the Republic's collapse. But the Republic's successor, the Batarian Hegemony, would continue to hold onto dreams of eventually recolonizing the Verge, and came one step closer to this dream when the Greater Quarian Republic collapsed in the late 19th Century CE, removing their main rival as a threat.
However, the arrival of humanity on the galactic stage changed everything, and the Systems Alliance rapidly began to expand throughout the Verge, snatching up colonies at an unprecedented rate. This brought them into inevitable conflict with the Batarian Hegemony, who had already staked claims to the Verge colonies that humans were now colonizing, but an attempt to force the issue saw them militarily defeated in 2177 CE, and the Alliance continued to stake their claims to most of the Verge, and by 2180 CE had colonized most of it.
The region stopped being recognized by 2202 CE. The partitions of the remaining Attican Traverse by the New Quarian Republic and Systems Coalition meant that the region, noted for being untouched by civilization, now no longer fit its original description, and thus was astropolitically redundant. "Skyllian Verge" as a term ceased being used in star charts entirely by 2220 CE, and many education curriculums had removed it by the mid 23rd Century CE altogether, simply being recognized part of human/quarian territory respectively. Even after the fall of the Galactic Dominion, the term never re-entered use by astronomists.