Sol-1 (v1.02) treaty (diplomatic summary)

Date: Feb 10 2025 Mon
Note, this document is part of an inital 'in principle' agreement between:

The UN for the Sol system and all its inhabitants.
The Croder. An alien metaculture located coreward and drifward of Earth.
The Triumverate. An alien metaculture located coreward and spinward of Earth.

Access to the Sol system

Jupiter is defined as the `Interface' between Earth and all outside metacultures. Alien use of propulsion in the Sol system is illegal except in sanctioned missions or emergency situations. All alien ships must arrive at Jupiter and will be met and towed to the Jupiter-1 station.

Travel outside Jupiter is not allowed except under Unda escort as organised by station staff or UN appointed representatives. Violation of this will activate the Mutual defence pact with the opposing metaculture, resulting in destruction or capture of the ship in question and renegotiation of the terms of the violator's presence.

Both sides seemed content with this ruling, although there was some inital protest from the Triumverate to do with access restrictions.

Jupiter-1 Station

Agreement to construct a station with a central docking core run by UNDA and the UNSC (Space corperation) and three habitation modules connecting to the docking core with UNSC interconnection standard. Construction details have been provided to each of the other sides.

Initial alien complaints about human construction methods (our 'paranoia' about power loss and backups and such things).

Mutual defence

The Jupiter-1 station will be garisoned by 10 high speed strike interceptors from each side. These ships will be locked into the docking section and unavailable either side without the express authorisation of the station military commander.

The Croder have offered 30 similar vessels and training on design, piloting and maitainance. The Triumverate were unwilling to provide a similar offer although they did insist on a 'presence' at the training.

Training and joint operations at the discression of the station commander.

The Triumverate were unwilling to offer any ships initially and only did so to match the Croder offer and in response to our 'non-negotiable' position on access to upgraded military technology. It is my impression that the Triumverate ships were of higher performance than the Croder, but that the Croder had numerical superiority. The Triumverate instisted on the joint training and operations clause.

`Payment'

Croder

The croder have offered 2 `low' technology FTL capable ships capable of being maintained by close to present Earth Technology.
The 30 interceptors and training as outlined above
Delaying public release of technical information for a period of a year, but provision of research data for UN coperative research corperations.

In return:

Nulling of debt for information recorded and sold to Triumverate.
15 year access to refueling station at Jupiter-1 (or an outer system of our chosing should Jupiter-1 operation be closed) Void if the Croder breach our access rules.
Access to the Jupiter factory complex (to be built) and first negotiation rights with any manufacturing arrangement using Croder provided technology.
25% additional commission on any Triumverate purchases of locally manufactured materials using Croder technology.

Triumverate

Whole funding of station operation excluding matters internal to Croder habitation module. This includes defense, operation of the station, operation of the factory base station (not individual factories), tender operation, and fuel refining. All these operations are to be operated by the UNDA or UNSC or outsourced at the discression of the UN.
Payment provided in Triumverate compting power, nano refined materials and other items to be negotiated on a 'free market' type arrangement. The Croder insisted on the free market arrangement, stating that the value of materials would drop as Earth gained the ability to apply new technology. A statement we agree with.

In return:

2 year access to refueling station at Jupiter-1 (or an outer system of our chosing should Jupiter-1 operation be closed) Void if the Triumverate breach our access rules.
Access to Earth under armed escort to be arranged by station staff. Limit of 2 visits per week with veto right of UNSC and UNDA. Leaving predefined flight path will results violation of system access laws. Exact destination on earth must be specified within 15km 2 days before flight. Mission may be cancel by escort for any reason.
Croder protested but were eventually mullified by 1 day advance noticed of leaving flights (but not destination).
The inital first contact team to be UN to Triumverate diplomatic channel.

Earth

Operation of the station operation excluding matters internal to any alien habitation module. This includes defense, operation of the station, operation of the factory base station, tender operation, and fuel refining. All these operations are to be operated by the UNDA or UNSC or outsourced at the discression of the UN.

In return:

Payment as outlined above.
Revenue from fuel refining, energy production and orbital tugs at market rates.
Subcontracted manufacturing on the Jupiter2 Factory.

Impressions

The Croder were skilled and helpful negotiators. They were clear about any problems and offered helpful suggestions to their solutions. Croder were keen to discuss constructing cooperative manufacturing stations with their own corperations, but at this stage, it seemed wiser to leave that to a future time (negotiations are continuing). I feel a little uneasy about the Croder, they offer much and if it all pans out as we expect and can predict then we should have a profitable cooperation, but I do feel that the Triumverate suspicion of them should be kept formost in the minds of all diplomats and negotiators.
On the other hand, the Triumverate seemed to be uneasy during the whole negotiation. Their objections were unclear and solutions hard to nail out. They seemed to express superiority and an extreme unwillingness to compromise. They obviously fear Croder influence in this system and most advances in difficult negotiations were to counter Croder offers.

The Triumverate also suggested the DMZ discussed below. This should be followed up.

De-Militarized Zone negotiations

The Triumverate did express an interest in establishing a DMZ around the Sol system, including access to the rimward expanse that both metaculture seem keen to explore. This seemed like an exciting idea that could go much further towards saftey for our system.

The inital proposal was to establish zone free of military ships that curved back into each metaculture. Such a zone would be observed by human and (opposing) alien unarmed observer ships.

Negotiations failed on the size of the DMZ. The Croder wanted a larger zone in the Triumverate metaculture (because Triumverate FTL seems to be faster/longer range) that would include one of the few fuel capable systems from Triumverate space.

Negotiations are continuing.