 June 2, 2013 - 5:22am | working on developing some setting fluff here- we know that Zebulon had a governor appointed by the UPF from the Zebs guide timeline and I speculated that another comment in the time line could be interpreted as Rhianna having an governor: http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/7527 so why does the UPF establish a territory and appoint a governor? one reason is that there are primitive sapient species present and the altruistically motivated COW wants to prevent their exploitation. Other reasons are possible: strategic and etc. mega corps naturally want to exploit resources in these locations and for the most part governors allow for this in limited areas but always watching for abuse of the primitives. a benefit of allowing some megacorp activity is that the mega corps end up building infra-structure that the UPF does not have to pay for but that the governor and other UPF representatives get to take advantage of- stations, star ports etc. I have a short list of three territories Zebulon Rhianna (Alcazzar) Starmist Liberty system could be a special case- with an ambassadore and a strong Space Fleet presence perhaps modelled on post WW2 japan. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 June 2, 2013 - 7:34am | OK this gets into the powers of the UPF. We generally accept the UPF is a Confederacy. The individual members have more authority than the uniting authority. One reason the South lost the war. In order for the UPF to appoint a governor there would have to a consensus of the members. Thinking the law would be a new territory would have to be claimed and developed by the discovers. If they fail the UPF would step in. Now if the discoverers were a UPF organization or if the discovery was contested than the UPF may be able to directly appoint a governor but would still need to find someone who came from a member planet. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
June 2, 2013 - 8:54am | I think rattraveller your rrasoning is sound but i would counter that in the case of Zebulon and Starmist the fact that there was sathar involvment at the time of discovery puts them into a different category. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
June 2, 2013 - 10:00am | Now we get the conspiracy theories going. Anytime the Sathar are involved UPF has jurisdiction. Given the way the UPF was created that makes sense. Still alot of beings are going to start thinking alot of unpleasant things about the UPF. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
June 2, 2013 - 4:10pm | that was explicitly what star law was created for- combating sathar agents and interstellar criminals and when acting in that balliwick they have pretty sweeping powers. There are a few cadres with attitudes you suggest and no doubt we can create a few more I'd be in favor of invocation of the sathar clause for two of these and in the case of Alcazzar that Streel actually had its lobbyist grease a few palms and there was a vote in the COW to appoint an govenor for Rhianna. With a governor attempting to be impartial to all mega corps it STreel couldn't be kept out of Alcazzar even after CDC wins the mini corporate war depicted in the module. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 June 2, 2013 - 4:38pm | OK I read the other thread first then this thread. I prefeer this type of legal business for establishing governors. I like the idea of give and take in the rules and other conflicts and loop holes in the evolving UPF and COW law. I do not want a prime directive protecting the natives. I much prefer the clash of cultures and the battle between uplifting the natives, exploiting the natives, and preserving them in their ignorance. There is more story there and the frontier races are not unified or altruistic enough to establish blanket prime directive rules. -iggy |
