The Volkov faction moved fast. Within a week of the cooperation framework clearing its first procedural hurdles, three new amendments hit the Coalition council floor, each one dressed up as routine oversight and each one built to kill the paradigm from the inside.
Timeline 48 tracked the legislative session hour by hour. This wasn't a fight they could win with results on the ground. It had to be fought here, inside the council chamber, on the faction's own terms.
The first amendment gutted the Quarterly Review Bill. Instead of judging cooperation on operational outcomes, it added criteria almost designed to fail: an assessment of the entity civilization's military capability as a threat to humanity, a demographic comparison of billions of entities against millions of humans, and a "cultural assimilation resistance" metric that no integration program could plausibly satisfy in three months. Read the criteria closely enough and the conclusion was already written into them.
