Stargazers Codex #008: "The Three Party Accord"

::: The Three Party Accord :::

            Mankind left their home to travel the stars on massive Arks meant to preserve them and carry them into the future.  When the Arks landed, humanity was freed from their frozen sleep to colonize new planets and to build a new future for themselves from the resources they found.  What they found, however, was not uninhabited planets with unknown flora and fauna.  Instead, they found the ruins of another civilization that came before them, a civilization that they would in time come to call, “The Guides.”

            Guide ruins became an integral part to the progress of mankind.  Using the hyper-advanced Guide technology as a blueprint, mankind came to populate not only the planets which they had landed on, but other planets found in nearby star systems.  The Olympic Republic, the largest and oldest of the three space governments that have been formed, also has the deepest reservoir of Guide technology and ruins to draw on.  To account for this, and to promote the equal distribution of Guide technology and thus the equal pursuit of human life and happiness, Guide ruins were recognized as a right that all governments have access to, and so the Three-Party Accord was formed.

            Brought about by the sudden shift in power that was created when the Federation left the Republic, the Accord was a way for the Republic to maintain their grip on the galaxy.  Recognizing that, in the vacuum left in the Federation’s absence, they could not adequately fight a war on two fronts, they could, however, horde the technology that they already had while also hobbling their opponents in their own acquisition.  The Accord, as it is written, allows the Republic to keep whatever developments they made before the Accord happened but also entitles them to access to any new findings made after the Accord had been signed.

            As for the other two governments, they were forced to sign the Accord to remain competitive.  While more and more Guide ruins are being found every year, the original few that were found, recognized, and researched were done so by Olympic scientists.  When the schisms happened between the Asgardian Federation and the Olympic Republic, the newfound Federation would have struggled to maintain relevancy in a world of Gigas Armors.  The Alliance, which was finding and developing its own Guide rich planets, signed to maintain the balance of power between the three.

            The Accord, while imperfect, has been publicly valuable, even if it is secretly ignored.  Many governments hire private contractors to do their research for them now, freeing them from the responsibility of lying while also allowing them to benefit from what is found.