Politics

Conditions of being in the Alliance and interaction of members of the Alliance

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Conditions of interaction with non-Alliance civilizations

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First Contact Directives

If a new civilization is discovered, it should be studied before contact, if possible covertly, for compliance with the Directives.

First Directive

The First Directive postulates that it is prohibited to make contact with civilizations that have not reached a technical and cultural level that allows interstellar travel. Such an event for an unprepared civilization could mean serious and unnatural changes in its morals and culture, and could lead to the self-destruction and extinction of the entire civilization or of its culture.

• Exceptions to the First Directive that permit bypassing it and making contact even with an unprepared civilization:
  1. The civilization's existence is threatened due to an event that remains unnoticed by that civilization, or the civilization has no way to resolve the threat without outside intervention. This applies both to the existence of the biological species itself and also directly to the development of the civilization (see the history of contact with Laymarans - They were not biologically in danger of extinction, but the state of their planet left them with no prospects for progress).
  2. In the event that one or more individuals made unplanned contact with the local population and there is no way to extract them without putting their lives at risk and keeping the Alliance's existence secret from the natives without destabilizing their civilization (See history of contact with humans).

Only the commanders of the Exploration Fleets have sufficient authority to sanction a breach of the First Directive.

Second Directive

The Second Directive postulates that if the First Directive allows contact with a civilization, contact should be followed by a period of acclimatization of the contactees, and a more detailed study of their society.

During this period, contactees may visit Alliance territory, make cultural, material and scientific exchanges with Alliance members in a limited form. In many respects, the rights of the civilization and the conditions of interaction with it repeat the conditions of interaction with civilizations of Independent Worlds. In the case of a situation where a civilization has been contacted in circumvention of the First Directive under the exceptions, a longer and gentler acclimatization is conducted, during which various assistance is offered to reasonably accelerate the civilization's development to interstellar standards. In this case, stricter restrictions on the transfer of technological, cultural and scientific data to civilization apply.

Also at least in the first third of the acclimatization period it is forbidden to transfer to civilization any information and materials necessary for the construction of FTL ships - all necessary interactions take place either in orbit of their homeworld, or representatives of civilization are transported to the place of the meeting via an Alliance ship.

The embargo on FTL technology is removed after the civilization reaches the necessary level of cultural development to allow adequate independent interaction with alien civilizations. After the acclimatization period, if the civilization meets the minimum cultural standards of the Alliance (regarding interaction with alien civilizations and partly the general cultural and moral vector of the civilization in question, see above), the civilization is offered (or granted, if the civilization has requested membership before the end of the acclimatization period) membership in the Alliance. In the case of cultural mismatch, or refusal to join, the new civilization is classified as part of the Independent Worlds.