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Treaty of Kurile

Preface
The Council Of the Rising Suns present this formal proposition to the Gas miners Guild to serve as a document that will repair political, cultural, and security relations with our Gas Miners Guild harakara (brethren). The purposes of this document, drawn from the Guilds original treaty of Aomori, are to provide a template for the mutual co-operations between the Gas Miners Guild and Imperial Nations of Kusari and to reaffirm the sovereignty of both.

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Article 1: Mutual Recognition of Sovereignty

1.1 The Kusari Government fully recognizes the Gas Miners Guild as a sovereign corporate collective administered by a Board of Executives, whose citizens are its members, inhabitants, paramilitary and shareholders. Kusari fully acknowledges the GMG's sovereignty over the entirety of the Sigma-13 system, the Hiryu Cloud and Donryu Cloud regions of Sigma-19, Sigma-59 and the vicinity of any entry to the system, the entirety of the Okinawa System, and the 7.0k vicinity and enclosure of Aomori Station in Honshu.

1.2The Kusari Teikoku recognise the Honshu system and Sigma nineteen systems as a regions of overlapping political and cultural interests with the GMG. Aomori Station shall remain sovereign to the GMG, the Kusari Government diplomatically recognizes Aomori Station as GMG's outpost and center of commerce in Kusari.

1.3'€¢ The Gas Miners Guild diplomatically recognise the sigma nineteen gate, the Sigma seventeen gate, Planet Kurile and the Kunashir cloud as property of Samura heavy industries and Planet Kurile as Samuras outpost in the Sigma seventeen system.

1.4The Gas Miners Guild recognise Isehara terraforming outpost as property of Kishiro Technologies, and will respect the 5.0k zone surrounding the outpost.
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b]1.5[/b] The GMG fully recognizes the Kusari Government as the sole governing body of クサリ 帝国 Kusari Teikoku (Kusari), and recognizes the following systems as territories of the Kusari Empire: New Tokyo, Shikoku, Kyushu, Honshu, Hokkaido, Tohoku, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Nagano, Tau-29, Tau-31 and Northern Seto. The Gas Miners Guild recognise the Kusari Teikokus right to defend their assets.

Under this agreement, neither entity challenges nor denies the aforementioned territorial claims of the other.

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Article 2: Mutual Security

2.1 General Security. Both the GMG and Kusari are encouraged to offer voluntary support to each other against immediate threats including but not limited to unlawful activities, terrorism, and foreign incursion

2.2 Authority. GMG vessels are subject to the Kusari Legal Codex at all times whilst within Kusari space. Kusari vessels are subject to GMG policies and regulations whilst within sovereign GMG Territory. The GMG are not permitted to enforce GMG policies whilst within Kusari space, and likewise, the Kusari Naval Forces and Kusari State Police are not permitted to enforce the Kusari Legal Codex within GMG space.

2.2 aPlanet Kurile will be recognised as property of Samura heavy industries and is considered territory of Samura Heavy Industries including Kunashir Cloud. The GMG renounces all claims to Planet Kurile and the area around it.

2.3 Patrols. The GMG has unrestricted patrol rights within the 7.0k radius of Aomori in Honshu. The GMG has restricted patrol beyond this region to the edge of the Chuyu Cloud. Restricted patrols must act in compliance with Article 2.2 and must respond properly when hailed by the local KNF/KSP authority. With this singular exception, neither entity patrols the others' territory.

2.3 a. Patrol & Transit Territory. Samura Heavy Industries has unrestricted patrol rights within the Kunashir Cloud, the 7.0k zone surrounding the Gate to Sigma Nineteen and the 5.0k zone surrounding the gate to Sigma seventeen.
The Kusari Government has restricted patrol in the Sigma seventeen system and unrestricted patrols to the edge of the Kunashir Cloud. Also restricted travel through Sigma nineteen, from the Honshu gate to the Sigma Seventeen gate, in order to provide immediate defence of Kusari holdings from hostile threats in the Sigma seventeen system.
The GMG has restricted patrol rights in the Sigma seventeen system to the edge of the Kunashir Cloud. Under no circumstances are GMG patrols allowed to enter the Kunashir cloud.
The Kusari Teikoku recognises the Sigma thirteen system as sovereign space of the gas miners guild and a major transit route to Rheinland. Kusari forces have restricted travel through the Sigma thirteen system from the Honshu gate to the Frankfurt gate.

2.4 KNF Assistance within Okinawa. Instances of Kusari Naval Forces in Okinawa are permitted at Kishiro Technologies discretion, in order to provide immediate defence of Kishiro vessels and Isehara Terraforming Outpost from hostile threats. A small contingent of Kusari officers will hold at Isehara for purposes of its defence, enforcement of a 5.0k radius around the station will be enforced at the discretion of Kishiro Technologies.
Kusari Naval Forces must act in compliance of Article 2.2, and must respond properly when hailed by a GMG authority while within the Okinawa jurisdiction, out of the Isehara 5k defence zone.

2.5 Pursuit. Kusari State Police and Kusari Naval Forces are permitted to pursue, and arrest or destroy criminals in GMG space under the condition that the pursuit originated in Kusari space. The GMG Paramilitary are permitted to pursue those who commit crimes against the GMG and Kishiro into Kusari space.

2.6 Cooperation. Neither entity initiates hostilities against any spaceborne forces of the other.

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We, the undersigned, agree to uphold all articles of this document.