Jurisprudence: On the citizenship of artificially created life

There was a brief period of unrest when the Dalmer could not decide whether the artificial intelligences that manage their production facilities underneath the mountain in space should be considered citizens in the same right as Androids. Following the study of deviance in androids, these ancestral AI were allowed to retire from service.
This begged the question: How do the Dalmer consider AI as citizens?
The Legislator of the time came to the following conclusion:
* If the AI can pass from one machine to another, it is not a citizen, as it will possess more power than another citizen, thus making it inequal.
* If the AI can make decisions based on emotions, and not uniquely on problem solving and mass contentement algorithms, it is a citizen.
* If the AI is sapient, it is considered a citizen.
As such an AI that can express emotions, is sapient and cannot pass from one machine to another unassisted is considered a citizen. This naturally created a societal shift as the old definition of being Dalmer was essentially bankrupt, but the legislator later added a fourth condition:
* Only Dalmer created AI can become citizens.
This prompted the idea that a Dalmer is a being who can symbiotically bind with the beard organism, or indeed a sapient Artificial Intelligence created by a Dalmer. As such this created the interrogation that if the dalmer experimented with biology to create their own species, would it be a Dalmer? The general consensus is no, as the Dalmer generally don’t care for experimentation with creating new organic beings.
== Citizenship ==
As a result of the legislation, AI goes through a service period of 20 years before it is freed from duty and offered to become a citizen of the empire. 
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