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Chartering of the Interstellar Hanseatic League

The Empire of Valinon, being an advocate of the cause of free interstellar trade, sets forth to create an organization to further interstellar trade among nations. This organization will be known as the Interstellar Hanseatic League, and will bind its member nations together to protect the rights of they have to free, equal, and uninterrupted interstellar trade. The Empire of Valinon does this because we recognize the dangers being posed to interstellar trade in our time so wrought with dangers. We feel that it its necessary to ensure that space-faring nations have the same rights many nations enjoy on Earth. It is time to bind together to a cause that will allow us to grow and prosper together.

Charter of the Interstellar Hanseatic League

I. Qualifications Pertaining to Interstellar Hanseatic League Membership

The Interstellar Hanseatic League is to be an open doors organization, designed to allow ease of membership for all those space-faring nations that wish to support the cause of free interstellar trade. The qualifications for membership shall be as follows:

A) Nations must have significant space-faring capabilities, at the minimum the
ability to travel to Luna from Earth.

B) Nations must be willing to respect the sovereign rights of all nations to free,
equal, and uninterrupted interstellar trade.

C) Nations must be willing to abide by all points and regulations of the Interstellar Hanseatic League Charter as well as the decisions of the Council of the Interstellar Hanseatic League.

D) Membership to the United Nations is not required, but may be preferred.


II. Formation of the Council of the Interstellar Hanseatic League

The Interstellar Hanseatic League shall need a governing body to determine its policy and handle internal affairs. This body shall be the Council of the Interstellar Hanseatic League, and it shall uphold the morals, idea, and institutions of the Interstellar Hanseatic League. The Council of the Interstellar Hanseatic League shall be laid forth as such:

A) The Council of the Interstellar Hanseatic League shall consist of all League
Member nations. Each member shall have one representative and will have
one vote pertaining to all procedures voted upon. This vote can be used to vote yea, nay, or abstain.

B) The Council of the Interstellar Hanseatic League shall be presided over by a
Chairman. This Chairman shall be chosen from the ranks of the representative nations and he shall administer the Court for Interstellar Trade Rights, the League Foreign Affairs Office, and the Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee. The Chairman shall have the power to appoint a Vice Chairman from the ranks of the representatives that shall take his place if he is unable to fulfill his duties. The Chairman shall also appoint a Chief Justice to oversee the Court for Interstellar Trade Rights and a Foreign Minister for the League Foreign Affairs Office. Both these positions most be approved by a majority vote of the Council. Finally, the Chairman shall preside over the Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee.
A Chairman’s term consists of five (5) years and no Chairman can hold office longer than three (3) consecutive terms. There is no limit to terms, but no more than three can be served consecutively. A Chairman may be removed from office with a Vote of No Confidence from the Council. This Vote of No Confidence must be carried by at least two-thirds membership of the Council. If a Chairman is removed from office, a new Chairman will be elected and new officers under the Chairman’s discretion be appointed. The Chairman removed from office is not applicable for running in an election immediate following his or her removal from office via a Vote of No Confidence.

C) The Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee shall be made up of all
member nations that contribute ships and military personnel to the Hanseatic
Commerce Defense Force. The Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee
will act as the high command for the Commerce Defense Force and will be
presided over by the Chairman of the Council of the Interstellar Hanseatic
League. The Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee will work to ensure
that interstellar commerce between member nations is kept free of piracy,
military disruption, and other forms of commercial interference.

D) The Court of Interstellar Trade Rights shall work to handle the legal affairs of
the Interstellar Hanseatic League. It shall work out legal trade disputes between member nations as well as uphold the rights of interstellar trade law. The Court of Interstellar Trade Rights shall be made up of twelve representatives, acting as Justices, from the Council of the Interstellar Hanseatic League and shall be presided over by the Chief Justice of the Court of the Interstellar Trade Rights. The Chief Justice shall have the tie-breaking vote in the case that the Court is deadlocked on a matter. Membership of Justices shall rotate every five (5) years, and the Chief Justice will change when a new Chairman of the Council is elected.

E) The League Foreign Affairs Office shall act as the voice of the Interstellar
Hanseatic League. It shall announce the stance of the League, and its major decisions as pertaining to international incidents that effect interstellar trade. The bureaucracy of the League Foreign Affairs Office shall be presided over by the Foreign Minister chosen by the Chairman of the Council. A new Foreign Minister will be chosen after a new Chairman is elected.


III. Regulations of the Interstellar Hanseatic League

These are to be the regulations of the Interstellar Hanseatic League, the Council, the Chairman, the Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee, Court of Interstellar Trade Rights, and the League Foreign Affairs Office will strive to uphold these.

A) Protect the rights of sovereign member nations to free, equal, and uninterrupted trade between interstellar territories. This will be accomplished through the actions of the Council, the Chairman, and through the security provided by the Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee.

B) If any nation(s) participating in a international conflict, such as war or embargos, illegally detains legitimate ships from League nations, this nation is now considered personal non gratis by the League and will be accorded to as such. This shall include measures ranging from reciprocating trade embargos, increased tariffs against said nation(s), and in extreme cases war via the members of the Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee.

C) All member nations’ ships that come under attack or threat by interstellar pirates will receive assistance from the Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee. The endangered ships shall be protected by warships culled from the international reserve of ships provided by nations belonging to the Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee. These pirates will be labeled as supreme violators of the League nations’ right to free, equal, and uninterrupted trade. They shall be persecuted with the full force of the power at the disposal of the Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee.

D) League member nations shall lower or remove all tariffs on products from other League member nation. This is waived though under states of war between member nations, if this occurs the Interstellar Hanseatic League will not intervene unless the conflict hinders the trading rights of League nations not involved in the conflict.

E) League member nations are to recognize the legitimate currencies of all other member nations. This is to allow greater flow of economic capital between nations and ease the trade barriers between nations.

F) League member nations will recognize all other member nations as sovereign states entitled to the same rights and privileges of all other sovereign member nations.

G) League member nations that desire so can lend ships to the cause to protect the interstellar trade lanes. These nations will gain seats on the Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee, and will not be removed from the Committee until they withdrawal there forces from the ship reserve pool. However, this can be waived if the nation is under great duress and the ships are needed to provide defense for their home worlds and systems. This can only be done if the member nation promises to resume its military commitment to the League upon the end of hostilities or events threatening said nation.

H) League member nations may appeal to the Court of Interstellar Trade Rights if they feel abused, violated, or threatened by other member nations. The Court will hear there evidence and case, and based upon this will make a ruling. All League nations must abide by the rulings of the Court of Interstellar Trade Rights, and a ruling by the Court can only be overturned and reexamined if a two-thirds majority of the Council of the Interstellar Hanseatic League will support this motion.

I) League member nations may appeal to the Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee if they feel that their rights to free, equal, and uninterrupted trade are being violated or threatened based upon hostilities, blockades, or pirate attacks. This must be approved by a majority of the Committee.

J) League member nations may appeal to the League Foreign Affairs Office if they feel that foreign nations outside of the League are threatening their right to free, equal, and uninterrupted trade. This will then be passed on to the Chairman and the Council or the Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee based on the nature of the basis of the appeal.

K) League member nations may appeal to the Chairman if they require an emergency motion to be brought before the League. The Chairman will then direct this to the Council, Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee, Court of Interstellar Trade Rights, or League Foreign Affairs Office as he sees fit. All other matters must be submitted to the docket prior to a convening of a meeting of the Council, Committee, Court, or Office.

L) League member nations reserve the right to withdraw, join, or rejoin the League as they see fit.

Thus concludes the Charter of the Interstellar Hanseatic League. We will now accept signatories:

Current Signatories:
His Majesty Emperor Gustav Alderman I of the Empire of Valinon

His Grace Archduke Raphael Corrin III of the Grand Duchy of New Ortaga

Supreme Holy Emperor on High Ken Matthews of the Holy Empire of Shentoc

Farseer Council of the Craftworld of Tor Yvresse

People's Republic of Saam Gok

Republic of Moviewatcher

The Kingdom of Moontian

Associated States
Grand Duchy of Tarasovka
Dominion of Wazzu

BUMP!!!!! For I feel this is important!

As a long time friend, ally, and trading partner, the Grand Duchy of New Ortaga will support the Interstellar Hanseatic League. The Charter is well-written, well-formed, and shows great merit. We encourage other space-faring nations to join as well.

Archduke Raphael Corrin III

As a long time friend, ally, and trading partner, the Grand Duchy of New Ortaga will support the Interstellar Hanseatic League. The Charter is well-written, well-formed, and shows great merit. We encourage other space-faring nations to join as well.

Duke Raphael Corrin III

Count me in. I've waited only too long for someone to write something like this out. here! here!

Supreme Holy Emperor on High Ken Matthews

Bump it like this! And bump it like that!

For the love of God, I bump!

BUMP!

*shrugs*

I don't have a HUGE space capability.

But if a couple of these heavy cargo ships are enough, we'd be happy to join :)

List us as associate members for now,I'll tell later if the Grand Duchy fully joins.

We are building several to support our fighter squadrons.

http://www.digikitten.com/playhousev2/files/Mishgan/heavycargo.jpg

The Taraskovyan "Gromada" Class Heavy Cargo/Transport Space Vessel.

Stats to come up a bit later...

That is enough to satisfy the requirement. The Interstellar Hanseatic League welcomes all friends and allies. We look forward to the day when you will join as as a full member nation.

BUMP!

Super Bump in the name of goodness! :D

This is of great importance to space-faring nations wishing to participate and reciprocate free, equal, and uniterrupted trade. We encourage others to join.

And the whole world goes BUMP!

Although we have little problem with mnay of the issues raised here, we agree with the idea in principle, and so apply for membership.

Farseer Council

Your support is welcome, please consider yourselves full members of the Interstellar Hanseatic League.

Saam Gok fulfills all the requirements, but we don't have any freighters yet. If someone can provide/sell us a few freighters or plans for freighters, we'd be happy to join this league.

dont forget me either.

I need to get some more cargo ships thought iv only got 3
but i have 2 black bird super star destoyers i could use as cargo ships till i get some more.

((Craftworld Tor Yvresse not Dominion, I don't use the term Dominion. Unfortunatly their is no 'Craftworld' Option... Oh to dream))

You don't have to have the freighters, only the ability to build and use them. However, we will present Saam Gok with six of our Solari-class freighters as a gift. Consider yourselves honored members.

Three is sufficient, consider yourselves members as well Moviewatcher. Welcome!

thanks for alowing me in.

No problem.

OOC: Sorry, Tor, I wondered about that but decided to go with Dominion. It will be changed.

Thank you, Valinon, we humbly accept your gift and offer you one of our Dragonhorn cruisers from the first batch that come out of our spacedock. We will notify you when it is finished.

guys im building a brand new space dock/ship building facility on pluto. This dock will be able to produce the biggest of ships in just 1 month.

if the members would liek to use this dock/building facility to dock ships or build new onse plz ask me if you can. all i ask is if you could build one ship for me.

Do you want a warship or a cargo carrier? Also, once the League is fully formed, we might pool our resources to build some sort of neutral free port space station to act as a headquarters. One that all member nations may help to crew and fund, and use at will. It would be located in a neutral space, but would have to pass with the Council.

greetings, i am interested in joining. but if i am accepted i would like to request i be the head of military and defence, seeing as i have been ranked #1 in space defence and conflict by neumerous threadmakers and posters.

can i have a cargo carrior? iv got 14 diffrent warships.

greetings, i am interested in joining. but if i am accepted i would like to request i be the head of military and defence, seeing as i have been ranked #1 in space defence and conflict by neumerous threadmakers and posters.


What do you think of my offer, before you answer, ask yourself. would this nation be a help to us with his massive space fleets and international power? also i am a delagate and am active in the forums.

Crimson Blades: We will accept you as a member, but not on those terms. The Interstellar Hanseatic League promotes free, equal, and uninterrupted interstellar trade between space-faring nations. To allow you to become head of our military and defense would be ludicrous. If you read the charter, all member nations that commit forces to the Interstellar Commerce Defense Force receive equal seats and positions with which to judge resolutions regarding military action. This body will not be prone to the stagnating Security Council system of the UN, nor will it allow one nation to dominate the interest of others. This is precisely what the League is being founded to stop. I am happy that you are ranked as such, but that will have no baring on your League status. If you will not join do to this, fine.

Moviewatcher: We will build three Solari-class freighters in order to gain use of your Pluto facilities.

BUMP!

Bump!

Bump!

Maybe you should delete you last bump post and then repost?
Wouldn't flood the thread with bump posts :wink:

Hmm thinking about it you better make us associates of the alliance, we have friendly terms with Os Sanglents, and would hate a conflict of interests to devolp. We agree with the idea, but find some 'Pirates' to be honourable people.

My Foreign Affairs Minister, Shaun Forrest, has considered your proposal, and has decided to put forward a referendum to the people. The only political parties that disapprove of joining are the Greens, and the Moontian First Party. Since they are extremely small parties, resistance appears to be minimal.

thanks for the cargo carriors you may now use my facility on pluto.

Pirates will only be attacked if they assault member nations forces, and even then it is a matter that must be decided upon by the Interstellar Commerce Defense Committee.

Several Valinon ships coming back to the homeworld will be making stop at your Pluto facility, Moviewatcher, they will require some R&R and resupply.

Bump!

ill resuply your ships as fast as i can.

Valinon ill be away for a week so I want to come back to the start of a gient trading complex where our ships could all go to and trade things.

If we can't get more members, than that may take sometime to do. And plus all members shall have to agree on a neutral point in interstellar space.

well thats true

uhm... bump? http://snk-universe.com/Board/html/emoticons/huh.gif

Yes, bump.

The referendum has taken place, with 82.37% of the population in support of joining. As a neutral point, I suggest the Oort Comet Cloud.

That could work out, welcome to the Interstellar Hanseatic League, Moontian. We are happy to have you.

The referendum has taken place, with 82.37% of the population in support of joining. As a neutral point, I suggest the Oort Comet Cloud.

Oort Comet Cloud?

Care to elaborate WHAT will we be doing in there? :shock:

Establishing an international free port, it would be the "capital" of the Interstellar Hanseatic League. The Council would meet there and member nations could establish permanent embassies. Also the members of the committee overseeing the Interstellar Commerce Defense Force would meet here as well. The Chairman would have his officer here, the Court would convene here, and the Foreign Affairs Office would have its main station here. It would also operate a port of call and would be open to all member nations, as well as non-member nations if the Council will support that.

Sounds interesting. We're in allright.

Count us in for the construction and architectural effort.

We still remain associate members so far, as soon as our first fleet is built, we will enter as full members.

Establishing an international free port, it would be the "capital" of the Interstellar Hanseatic League. The Council would meet there and member nations could establish permanent embassies. Also the members of the committee overseeing the Interstellar Commerce Defense Force would meet here as well. The Chairman would have his officer here, the Court would convene here, and the Foreign Affairs Office would have its main station here. It would also operate a port of call and would be open to all member nations, as well as non-member nations if the Council will support that.

A nice idea. Maybe if every member nation built their own section for their embassy, but ensuring that it is compatable with the rest of the station, it would provide jobs for the people, and would let each nation feel proud of what they can do.

Bump

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*bump*er cars...

badabump :D

The Star League is interested in joining this orginization, its member nations (Scandavian States, Scandinavian Nations, Solar Systems, and South-East Asia) having long advocated the freedoms and rights of the people. While we posses no civilian cargo craft, our ships are designed to hold significant amounts of cargo. The specs for our ships are here: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60862, I think you shall find even our dropship's cargo capacity quite noteworthy.

Sincerely,
Alex Larsen,
First Lord of the Star League

Welcome to the Interstellar Hanseatic Leauge, nations of the Star League. We welcom you as space-faring breatheren of the stars.

Sincerely,
Count Viktor Leopold
First Minister for His Majesty's Foreign Affairs
Acting Chairperson of the Interstellar Hanseatic League

Welcome to the Interstellar Hanseatic League.

Sincerely,
Archduke of Tarasovka,
Heir to the Throne,
Mikhail Shakhovskoy the IInd.

[OOC:
A bump? Where? :shock: ]

Does this mean you want full membership now Tarasovka?

Does this mean you want full membership now Tarasovka?

OOC:
Not yet.
A bit later. :wink:

As I do not at this time have any interstaller vessel, I will not join the League. But I would like to take the time to tell you not to make this league too big. It will upset the rest of the world. Those who can control the skies can control all. Don't let this be the common ideology. I do back the league at this time.

As I do not at this time have any interstaller vessel, I will not join the League. But I would like to take the time to tell you not to make this league too big. It will upset the rest of the world. Those who can control the skies can control all. Don't let this be the common ideology. I do back the league at this time.

The main purpose of the League is not to control the skies, but to provide safe conditions for the member nations for their interstellar trade.
The members benefit from the backing of the league in their problems, they receive secure trade routes, that - if I understand correctly - the joint fleets defend from pirates and other "nuisances".

The League is not a militaristic alliance. At least - as far as we are concerned.

The main reason of the Duchy not yet becoming full member is our lack or a standing battlefleet to participate in the joint defence. But that problem will be solved VERY soon.

OOC:
Actually, I bought some tech from several nations, develloped my own sort of tech and built a fleet :)
Now just need to find the .txt file where it is! :shock:

Yes, this is a trade alliance that gaurantees trading rights of member nations, not a militaristic alliance. And do you need me to resend that information on the Taurus-class battleships, Tarasovka?

Yes, this is a trade alliance that gaurantees trading rights of member nations, not a militaristic alliance. And do you need me to resend that information on the Taurus-class battleships, Tarasovka?

No, we have received the information. And we thank you greately.
The designs have permitted our scientists to progress much further in the devellopement of our own technologies.

As a small piece of information, we agreed with the charter, and are (confirmed by Valinon) now a member.

~ Mr. Morden and associates

Peace man!
We, The Nomadic Peoples of Krasnykot, have recently reached the Region of Luna and are now in the process of founding our nation around the south polar area.
Our only spaceworthy vessel is a surplus former soviet transport capsule, called the Earth Ferry, since all other spacecraft have been transformed into housing.
None the less we could offer a haven for the weary trader and are interested into the free exchange of goods and ideas, therefore we would like to join the Interstellar Hanseatic League.

Grand Chief Holy Smoke
Speaker of the Peoples