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Outer Space and Moon treaties?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Treaty What happens about them. Are they just superceded? Because they make practically every Fennish activity illegal, and were ratified by Australia. 
It's been years since I read the Outer Space Treaty, and it's not like I've studied any kind of law, but my recollection is that those happen to
bind countries. (Because who else can afford to send stuff out of the atmosphere?) Given that Fenspace hands the ability to jaunt over to Mars out more or less like Cracker Jack prizes, I'd say that they're mostly irrelevant and only as awkward as necessary for someone trying to make political capital in Australia.
From Wikipedia, the Moon Treaty looks like it effectively forbids all but the most cursory private activities in space, including mining, private
"land" ownership and terraforming. It's not currently significant, because no spacefaring country has signed it, but Australia has. The outer space treaty makes governments responsible for "non-governmental" activities in space - IMHO, because it dates from the days when no real private space activity was plausible, and "it's not the government" would be a smokeskreen. It has been signed by space powers. They'd be impossible to enforce in fenspace, but that's never stoped a government from trying to before. 
http://fnord.sandwich.net/fenwiki/doku. ... ace_treaty]The FenWiki entry on the Outer Space Treaty
The Moon Treaty and Australia is a bit of a sticking point, but like the Outer Space Treaty above the Kandor-Con pardon effectively nullifies it. Besides, I expect Oz is ignoring it as they get the lion's share of trade from Fenspace. |
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