A Convening of Hostiles

The Svartalfheim Dominion's sudden change in allegiance, from being a primary supporter of the Ghimderi Banking Clans and Trade Princes, to wholly pledging itself to Elven Reunification, and its newfound alliance with the Germanic Star-Empire was a shocking and honestly destabilizing declaration. 

As if the declaration of the Germanic Star-Empire being a major galactic power, and its newfound alliance with the Alfheim Dominion wasn't groundbreaking enough, the prospect of the eons old conflict between the two Elven sub-races, a conflict which ironically enough had actually been the foundation which the galactic balance had been based upon, suddenly through order itself across the Milky Way into question.