THE COMPACTS OF UNIONISATION - (//Readable to all characters)

[The Syndicate Leagues]

The Compacts of Unionisation

Signed 23 years After Rheinland (AR), later known as 25 AS in the years after the construction of the Einstein Relay).

Captain Adek Vilinius: It has come to pass, that the colonists of the Rheinland have reached the limits of the legal statutes inherited from the Federal republic of Germany. The laws and and doctrines of our home nation no longer apply to a colony with frequent food shortages from poor harvests, and crushing, planetary winters. By rule of the emergency powers invested in the Colonial corps, decree that the following compacts are to be placed into legal permanence, to not be lifted throughout the history of our nation as it develops in the new sector. The goal of the Sirian dream, apart from the survival of our species that the increasingly destructive solar war threatens to-date, is to move beyond the divide that has pulled us apart. We of the Rheinland must always recognise that we are children of the Alliance, but the rhetoric that created the Coalition ideology cannot be discounted as it once was around our home star, on our home planet. It has been twenty three years since we passengers woke from the long sleep, dozens of years more since the war itself, but the horror of that war must never be repeated in the lifetimes of our children. The first generation of children have grown to adulthood without the memory of the conflict, and already disputes over food scarcity and crop failure under the Berlin climate have pushed our people to collective action, labour disputes, arguments over rationing between crew and colonists. As the riots have shown, these concerns cannot be responded to with violence and suppression. We cannot criminalise the desire for a better society. Sirius is out there. Resources have been discovered on Potsdam and the outer planets. One day, perhaps not too far in the future, our children or their children will take to the stars again. Contention between Colonial Command, and fears of a hereditary succession of colonial governorship, have marred our newfound home. The settlers of the Rheinland have an obligation to the nation that will grow from us. We cannot in good conscience burden the society we wish to build with the unanswered questions of their ancestor’s war. We must, grow, we must prosper, we must flourish. But we must not forget why we were forced to look beyond the jewel of Earth, and what human crimes caused us to leave that which was so precious to us.

By majority vote, the following rights are enshrined:

1) The Rheinland will always guarantee the right to collective action and protest within, and between, any vocation.

2) The Rheinland will guarantee the safety and security of all of its citizens from corruption, malpractice, or fraud, of corporation or beurocracy.

3) The Rheinland will never criminalise any subset of society for personal beliefs, political views, or membership of any one political party or collective organisation.

4) The Rheinland will protect the rights of trade and labour unions. Corporations will be barred from forcibly disrupting trade union organisations.

5) The Rheinland guarantees the right to employment to all of its citizens.

6) The Rheinland guarantees healthcare, education, and freedom from food, water, or life support scarcity and starvation, as a fundamental right afforded to its citizens.

7) The Citizens of the Rheinland regard the Alliance colonies to be formed of the Rheinland, the Liberty, the Bretonia, the Kusaria, and the Hispania.

8) The Rheinland will never allow its citizens to be judged, or tried, under a legal system not endorsed by the Rheinland state and its citizens.

9) The Rheinland will offer a free and independent police force and security services, operating independently from the head of state and the executive branch.

10) The Rheinland guarantees that no appendage of government will engage in social engineering of the citizenry.

11) The Rheinland government pledges to provide state news services and to contest the commodification of information.

12) The Rheinland government guarantees to endorse, and further, the industrious activity of its citizens.

13) The Rheinland will protect its citizens, and regard its borders as be defined by the limits of its population.

14) The Rheinland government will not be subject to treaties or agreements given without the consent of the people.

15) The Rheinland government will never engage in beurocratic division or factionalism.

16) The Rheinland will not unlawfully renge, terminate, or amend, contracts and guarantees made to the people before the expiration of their term.

17) The Rheinland guarantees access to all of its citizens to its municipalities.

18) The Rheinland opposes summary execution.

19) The Rheinland will never pay, advocate, or promote, the use of outside entities to police, regulate, or compete with, the interests of its own citizens.

20) The above rights shall persevere, independently of changes of government, or of systems of governance.

It is the belief of the emergency council and the colonial board, as with the people, that these statements of unity and faith in the solidarity of our colony, should they be respected, will save our future from repeating the mistakes of the past. No-one can predict the future's trials. But with the assertion of these rights, Rheinland will face those challenges, together, in brotherhood, and in love.


Long live Sirius. Long live the Rheinland, no matter what may happen to us.

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