GEDRA

GEDRA (Galactic Exploration, Defense, and Research Alliance)

Overview

The purpose of the GEDRA is to provide a cooperative effort between advanced space-faring cultures, in the pursuit of galactic, and general space related exploration, mapping, defense, and general research into spatial phenomena.

Charter

Provision I

Members conducting exploratory missions will provide detailed maps and charts of newly discovered regions of space. In doing this, the overall cost in both men and equipment can be alleviated through sharing of charts. As such, there will be a cut back on the need of multiple charting of the same space by different members. However, primacy of colonization, within newly discovered systems goes to that member world/system which discovered it.

Provision II

Such charts will include the relative mass, density, and composition of all stellar and planetary bodies in said regions of space, for the benefit of Faster Than Light navigation through these systems.

Provision III

All newly discovered spatial phenomena by members will be reported to GEDRA, thereby allowing alliance members the ability to team research efforts into the understanding and impact these phenomena have. All gleaned research data collected by GEDRA backed research, will be shared by all member worlds/systems. This is not to construe that any independent research need be shared, only that which is attained via the GEDRA provisions.

Provision IV

No member world/nation may go to war with any other member without first appeal to a meeting of representatives of all member worlds/systems in the alliance.

Provision V

No member world/system will interfere in the internal affairs or politics of another member world/system.

Provision VI

No member world/system will engage in piracy, or other such means upon other member worlds/systems or any other space-faring or non space-faring culture.

Provision VII

No member world/system will interfere with the development or advancement of any culture that has not attained interstellar travel.

Provision VIII

All contests of colonization or defense, between member worlds/systems, will be presented before a meeting of representatives from all member worlds/systems for deliberation and arbitration.

Provision IX

Deliberation by GEDRA will be done by one representative from each member world/system, each representative will have one vote, and a vote must possess a two-thirds (2/3) majority to pass.

Provision X

Additions or removal of provisions to this alliance will be done by deliberation as outlined under Article 8, however, a complete majority and consensus is needed.

Signatories to the Alliance

• Signatories
  • The Constitutional Republic of Tekania
  • The Dominion of Godular
  • The Orbital Colonies of New Exodus
  • The Constitutional Monarchy of -Bretonia-
  • The United States of The Fedral Union