Interplanetary Polities

Interplanetary Polities
Research Cost: 50000
Summary
The speed of light's limitations on our communications require granting a measure of independence to our off-Earth colonies.
Description
If there is one lesson to be learned from the history of human society's colonization of distant lands, it is that remote rule proves only sustainable under absolute tyranny, and all the bloodshed that entails. A growing desire for independence from a far-off homeland is inevitable, and conflict in the pursuit of it a given. This will be just as true for our off-world colonies as it was for America and Africa centuries ago. If we do not establish a workable solution now, Earth-bound humanity and space-based humanity may well become locked in a cold war spanning light years. The need, then, is to establish policies, laws, and systems by which our colonies are beholden to their homeworld (particularly in terms of sharing off-world resources with it), yet free to make their own day-to-day decisions, choose their own leaders and defend their own borders. No matter the breakthroughs we might make in the speed of data transfer, it seems unlikely that we will cross the light barrier within the near future. For governance to depend upon waiting for answers that take hours, days, or weeks to arrive would be a slow suicide for both sides. If we are to remain one humanity, even as we slowly spread across the cosmos, we must ensure our colonies are self-sufficient, content, and therefore, loyal now, not later.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Augmented Reality 1500 Settlement Habs 5000 Arrival Psychology 5000 Mission to the Moon 1000 Arrival Law 5000 Outpost Habs 1000 Mass Drivers 1000 Space Mining and Refining 2500 Photonic Computing 1500 Deep Space Propulsion Concepts 1000 Biotechnology 1500 We Are Not Alone 500 Directed Space Research 5000 Militarization of Space 5000 Advanced Neural Networks 5000 Industrialization of Space 15000 Space Commerce 20000 Arrival Economics 2500 Quantum Computing 15000 Colony Habs 35000 Space Medicine 2500 Terrestrial Military Science 3000 Principles of Space Warfare 1000 Orbital Shipbuilding 1000 Mission To Space 250 Arrival Security 10000 Arrival Sociology 2500 In Situ Resource Utilization 5000 Arrival Governance 35000 Arrival Domestic Politics 2000 Space Research 2500 Ring Habs 35000 Orbitals 5000 Space Agriculture 2500 Advanced Atomic Manipulation 10000 Our Space Future 30000 Advanced Heat Management Concepts 2500 Space Navies 10000 Arrival Culture 20000 Arrival Mass Communications 5000 Extended Space Survival 10000 Advanced Carbon Manipulation 1000 Advanced Electromagnetism 1000 Ad Astra 5000 Nuclear Fission In Space 2500
Total Research Cost (including itself)
	2000		23000
	102500		12000
	29000		200000
	14750	Total	383250
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
		(100%)Civilian Complex • (100%)Independent Habitats
Quote
"One would think that the master most despised is the one who stands over us, whip in hand. But no, it is the unseen and distant master, issuing his uncaring edicts from afar, whom we most yearn to overthrow." Commissioner Kiran Banerjee, The Protectorate Arguing for the independence of Hong Kong on CNN
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