Al'kya Accords

The Accords of Al'kya are a set of binding agreements and common law oversights signed by Galactic Federation member species, establishing the official common currency of the Federation, the various overlaws that would be recognized between member systems, the foundations of the Galactic Federation Peacekeepers Division, and the regulation of member system militaries. These accords were originally drafted at the founding of the Federation in 2581, and were greatly amended and redrafted following the conclusion of the devastating Machine War in 2763. The Star Hunters were also established in the amended accords as the top most agents of the Federation Assembly, answering to the Greater Assembly and the Chairman themselves, as was the creation of the Federation Defense Fleet.

## The Accords and their Stipulations

There are hundreds of legal points and subjects based upon the Accords, in which the Department of Law and Regulatory Matters is the observers and enforcers of the Accords. The Lower Assembly, consisting of the representative Ambassadors chosen by those considered to be embassy member systems, was given powers to speak for their own government spheres while proposing policy on laws, trade agreements, patrols, obligations, and duties, while the Greater Assembly itself oversees all votes on legislation and policy edited to adhere to the Accords itself, though often to the benefit of their own species or themselves personally. These points include;

* The Federation Seguru is the common standard monetary value in which all intergalactic trade is based off of. All signatory governments are to base their currencies off the seguru for intraspecies trade, and must honor the seguru if presented. Because of the Federation economy, the seguru is the highest standard of currencies in all of the galaxy, and the exchange rate from a native currency to the seguru is usually done at an underappreciated value to keep one species' economy from becoming too powerful or their native currency from being valued too highly.
* The Galactic Assembly of Congress, as the appointed and elected representatives of Federation member systems, tax all trade, emplace all tariffs, and regulate all embargos that transition through Federation territory. Any kind of importation or exportation is taxed through weight or material, exotic composition, and all sales that are interplanetary or upon any electronic network, such as the Federation datanet, is taxed at a certain percentage for the Department of Finance and Commerce to maintain and upkeep the budgets required to maintain the federal government. The Department of Finance and Commerce is also the final arbiter of all financial disagreements between governments and businesses that span more than just their native home systems.
* Each member species, whether a Council world or Embassy member, is to allocate a portion of their defense production to the Federation Stellar Defense Fleet in the name of defense of the Daiban and Federation interests. In addition, all military and defense fleet vessels officially commissioned into the service of member systems are to use the registry code of GFS, for Galactic Federation Starship, as all defense vessels and ships of war are expected to serve the protection of the Federation first and foremost.
* Warships must fit into specific categories in which each member species is allowed a certain number of fleets based on population, economic presence, and political influence, with each system defense fleet regulated based on ship size class, mass, and weapons rating. This is not only to 'limit' the offensive military power that a member species can singularly mass, but also to limit the damage done if such a ship were to mutiny and go rogue, the capability of a port being able to dock a vessel under emergency conditions, and to keep the playing field even if a species or a portion or group were to break away from the Accords and the Federation so that defense of a homeworld or a colony would be feasible. Those members who already had existing fleets prior to membership that would normally exceed or violate these regulations are granted a "grandfathering" of existing vessels, but are heavily restricted in further capital class vessel construction until such a time that these numbers are lower than restrictions require. This restriction does not apply to vessels such that fall into the escort class or smaller.
* Weapons of Mass Destruction are heavily regulated, and are defined through the Accords. This ranges from everything from the size and mass velocity of a main cannon upon a capital class warship, electronic virus packages or Smart class Artificial Intelligences that could bring down entire planetary networks, biological agents and elements that have no termination point, chemical devices that go beyond a certain range, and even the effects of personal weapons and fuel sources required. Weapons of Total Annihilation are, barring specific exceptions, outlawed entirely, and are only granted exemption in the situations of Conflict of Annihilation.
* The Lower Assembly will contain one elected Ambassador representative per affiliated embassy world or system, not per species as a collective. This is to acknowledge that different groups within a species aren't always of the same ideologues as a whole, and different settlements often exist to express different ideals or cultures. Said elected officials will be responsible for the presentation of concerns of their species, as well as all species interactions with other species throughout Federation Space, be it trade, defensive patrols, laws that extend beyond their native borders, interactions, political issues, and details that require anything outside their normal jurisdictions.
* Any disputes between member species or systems will go to the Department of Governance Oversight for vote, in which the Greater Council Assembly is the oversight committee. If one party of a dispute is not a part of Federation space or oversight (such as a business in the Frontier, or a government group not adherent such as the Kilrathi Assembly of Clans or the Border Worlds Union), outside authority is considered and included in mediation and arbitration.
* Certain items, actions, and activities that are deemed illegal by the Council are enforced by not only the Federation Peacekeepers Department, but also the signatories of the Accords of Al'kya and agents of the Office of Special Operations and Tactics, also known as Star Hunters. Cultural practices native to a species that existed *before* First Contact that are nominally illegal(such as slavery, ritualized killings, etc) will be considered for amendments if said practice is confined to the limits of that species' borders and does not cause quantifiable harm to other member species. Said practices done outside of regulated Federation Space are unmonitored and undisclosed to the Assembly and thus not considered technically illegal.