Coalition council approved the Sector 12 research station proposal on Thursday, four days after the joint investigation concluded.
The approval wasn't surprising. Dr. Chen's presentation had been thorough, the scientific case was genuine, and the safety assessment was clear: the novel configuration was stable, non-threatening, and represented exactly the kind of dimensional architecture discovery that cross-civilization scientific collaboration existed to investigate. Council voted 71% in favor. Even Volkov faction members who asked pointed questions about resource allocation and operational priority had not seriously opposed the proposal's substance. The science was sound and the approval was legitimate.
Rama learned about the vote through standard Coalition communication channels the same morning Timeline communicated something through the integration connection.
The two arrived within an hour of each other.
