DRAFT
After consultation with stakeholders and thought leaders, the Interplanetary Assembly's Select Committee for the the Exploration of Space beyond Guo's Star have established the following guidelines to govern the conduct of all exploratory missions beyond the wormhole gate to Cohen 138.
Motivations
Definitions
Guidelines for Contact with Less Advanced Civilizations
Appendix: Select Committee Composition
Select Committee members:
- Chel Ferrari, at-large Representative of Heidelberg, chair of the Select Committee.
- Wen Burach, representing Outer Gren, Federal States of Greater Iridia.
- Dr. Yiths Tensol, Representing the Larsa Free State Polar Provinces, Larsa.
Upper-Manipulation-Appendages Hero1, representing the Unified Compacts for the Propagation of the Species, Water Planet of Iridia.
- John Dotcom, Representing the Central Committee of Mars.
- Mira Huang-Wong, Representing the Union of Dirac.
- Preeta Cerro, Representing the Orbital Commonwealth of Thane.
Pattern-of-Markings Fortune2, representing the Unified Compacts for Trading with Outsiders, Water Planet of Iridia
Principal advisers to the Committee:
Dr. High-Spatial-Frequecy-Eyes Plankton3, Prebhurts Endowed Professor for Interspecies Ethics, Human-Accessible University of the Higher Education Compact of Mid-Deep 47, Water Planet of Iridia.
- Adm. Clara Hamstroj, Allied Worlds Space Force.
- Her Grace the Archbishop of Susa, Melody Kim.
- Dr. Simon M. al-Larsi, Chair of the Department of Anthropology, All Thane Research University.
- Selwai, Nuncio of the Thomist Lama.
- Wiry Son of Threads, Minister of Industry, Southcap.
- Dr. Mar Song, Professor Emerita, Peters Historian Laureate, Public University of Roinmeh.
- Sir Ed Weatherby-Potts-Frito, Chief Executive Officer, Allied Nanomaterials.
Dr. Low-Viscosity-Screen-Ink Abyss4
- Col. (Ret, AFUD) Samuel Bo, Union Academy of Iolo, Center for Foreign Relations.
The One whose Upper Manipulation Appendages, Two Standard Deviations Stronger than Typical, Reminds its Caretakers of the Famed Hero (1)
The One with a Strange Pattern of Markings on its Dorsal Surface Said in Antiquity to Portend Unusual Times of Fortune (2)
The One whose Exceptionally Keen High Spatial Frequency Eyes readily Detect Nutritious Plankton (3)
The One whose Low Viscosity Screen Ink, Ejected Copiously when Alarmed, Serves Well to Conceal it from Harm, being like the Blackness of the Deepest Abyss (4)