The InterCosmic Treaty Of Non-Subjugation

A named agreement with no text: the principle that no people may be subjugated by another, extended past the planet.

The name appears once, in the corpus's cosmic section, with nothing under it. What it points at is the extension of an existing commitment rather than the invention of a new one. Sovereignty At Every Scale holds that authority flows from Consent and never from command; Federation is unity that honours the sovereignty of its parts, and a federation that swallows its members is an empire under a friendlier name. Carried outward past the atmosphere, those commitments produce exactly this: no subjugation, in either direction, of any people by any other.

The direction matters as much as the principle. A corpus that expects to meet others and has only defensive language is one bad century away from doing what it feared. Non-subjugation binds us first. It is the outward face of the same asset lock and purpose lock that prevent a body from being bought or captured at home, and of the Possibility Of Reversal that keeps every arrangement revisable.

It is ore, and flagged for slop-risk in the field's own audit — a grand name with no body, which is precisely the failure mode the audit exists to catch. It is recorded because the corpus records it and because the principle beneath it is real and already articulated elsewhere; the treaty as an instrument is not. Anyone who writes it should write it as a Field of Agreements is written: read at the door, accepted once, honoured until renegotiated, and revocable.

Nothing in the Game depends on it. Its usable residue is the discipline a Cell can already practise: whatever we federate with, we do not absorb; whatever federates with us, we do not require to dissolve.

Also called: non-subjugation Stands on: Sovereignty At Every Scale · Consent · Federation · Covenant Opens onto: Star Nations · Federations vs Empires · Field of Agreements · Cosmos Is Not Human-Centric · Possibility Of Reversal In play: beyond Sources: The LIØNSBERG Pattern Language, synthesized, §The Cosmos And Non-Human Intelligence (ore; a name with no body) — lionsberg.wiki. Open: Ore, flagged slop-risk. No text exists. This page articulates the principle the name implies and does not claim that any treaty, document, or agreement stands behind it.