Prime Directive

The Prime Directive or the Minya Directive is a principle and law guiding interplanetary contact.
No individual from the planet Arden or any other planet in our jurisdiction will interfere with an extraplanetary environment except in those ways incidental to prepensive contact. First contact must be approved by the Union and all contact will be aspetic according to a xenomicrobial convergence plan. Secondly, no individual will interfere with the natural cultural evolution of a sapient species or population except where self-directed. It must also be mitigated by the knowledge of the technologically superior party. All sapient species and populations in the universe have a right to self-determination. Interaction with any xenobe must be in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Sapient Rights. Article III and its attendant protocols for sapience determination will guide all xenobiotic encounters. Thirdly, no individual will interfere with any extraplanetary social system or become a player in it. Any member of the Union who becomes a member of a group outside our jurisdiction thereby abdicates their membership in the Union and will be treated according to xenic process.
In speech form it is explicated as:
As the right of each sapient species to live according to its natural cultural evolution is considered sacred, no Union member may interfere with the development of an extraplanetary culture, namely by the introduction of a technological leap calculated to be too far or by the introduction of universal and astronomical knowledge or ideas too far removed from that culture's location on the timeline of sapience and in the web of cognition, as determined by the Union. If it is calculated that the introduction of a xenic substance or pattern, material or immaterial, will be harmful, that introduction will be prohibited. No member of the Union will violate the Prime Directive to save their life or the lives of other members. All Union members able not involved in any violation must set to immediately rectifing it, mitigating the effects of the contamination to the best of their ability and the full extent of their life. When offenders have recovered from their violation they are required to do the same above all else, unless determined inappropriate by the Union. This directive takes precedence over any and all other considerations, and carries with it the highest ethical obligation.
==Development==
The Directive can be broken down into its three points:
#Organismal
#Cultural
#Social
In previous iterations of the laws governing contact with other planets names were given to each of the three points as separate directives:
#Minya Directive / Prime Directive
#Attea Directive / Altera Directive
#Nelya Directive / Trine Directive
==Sources==
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Charter
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