(10-15-2017, 06:04 PM)hazard Wrote: Wait, the UFP passed a law in the story line that effectively declared machine intelligence not to be people?
The galaxy is lucky it took only a few years for it to get to a short organic on organic civil war and the IPO power block would've taken a stance against that sort of law because the machine-organic civil war that would've followed otherwise would've rend the known galaxy apart.
Yes, they did, in between invalidating all interspecies marriages and making Psi Corps conscription mandatory for all psychics, even those with 'anomalous' abilities. Shortly after this, what really caused the death of President Santiago was discovered, and the messengers taking that information was used by Clark to try to choke Zeta Cygni, Jyurai and Salusia.
The only reason that it didn't go bad faster was the IPO running evacuations to Cybertron (and no member of Starfleet being willing to take on the Autobots), Jyurai (for the psionics) and ZC itself.
It'll come back sometime and you can see what happened. It was officially deprecated because of timeline issues.