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The epitome of headache-inducing twists in salarian politics.

Modern observers know it best through its depiction in Season 16 of Ten, the long-running series dramatizing the Ten Trader's War. In the sequence, an STG agent in the guise of a dancer manages to both figuratively and literally stab eighteen major players in the War simply by crossing a dance floor, breaking and rewriting alliances all along the way. There's so much happening in a single motion that the production company finally gave up and placed a tapestry of political connections at the bottom of the scene's screen, cutting, weaving, and re-cutting a web of alliances for observers to try and follow while the agent is wreaking his havoc. Even other salarians find it hard to keep track, so many aliens have no chance.

The word his path traces out is also caught on film and used to ruin another life halfway across the galaxy a season later, but that's another story. Emon Spiza insists that actually this part was dumbed down from the actual history, as test audiences refused to believe an entire phrase was spelled out with the dance.

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