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###INCOMING TRANSMISSION###
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SOURCE: Outpost M-48
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DECRTIPTION:Transcript of a history lesson conducted by prof.
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Judith Carter on [ERROR: DATA CORRUPTED]
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---BEGIN TRANSCRIPT---
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Good morning everyone, My name is professor Judith Carter, and
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today we'll be looking at origin of the infamous non-involvement
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law. As you may know, our federation known as Earth Union has been
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expanding for about five centuries now. As of now, there are
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officially 85 member planets in this federation and counting. This
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expansion has been greatly aided by discovery of faster-than-light
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methods of travel including time-compression, sub-space jumps, or
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warp travel. The method is usually same, but different pop-cultures
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tend to have different names for it. Anyways. As some of you know,
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some of these planets actually had native inhabitants when we
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colonized them. This has led to problems, because in some cases,
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these civilizations haven't been developed enough to establish
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first contact, but we did anyways - as if the humanity didn't learn
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from it's past mistakes. As a result, these primitives had become
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increasingly reliant on the advanced technology we have introduced
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to them without being even able to fully understand it, which has
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lead to mass extinction. Don't get me started on how some
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companies just went in and sucked some planets dry of their
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resources... Some of you may have heard of Terrania XXII where we
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had to migrate the native civilization into natural reservations -
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similar to what we did to native americans back in the day. To
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prevent any further damage, our government has introduced so called
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"Law of non-involvement". Basically, when one of our ships
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discovers a new habitable planet, they have instructions to record
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it's coordinates and deploy scanner satellites and assign category
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based on presence of life-forms civilizations, and it's development
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stage. There are five categories from A to F where F is for barren
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planet with no intelligent life or exploitable natural resources -
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good example is Venusia which has been bought by private company
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that has transformed this planet into enormous casino and luxury
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brothel - all the way to category A, where civilization is advanced
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enough for us to establish first contact and engage in diplomacy -
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good example is our recent addition, the Denebian Empire with their
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home planet orbitting around Alpha Cygni in Cygnus constellation,
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also known as swan. Unfortunately, trying to determine the rate of
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civilization's advance based on satelite surveilance has proven
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inconclusive and since simply sending the probes is not an option,
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an agency for primitive planet oversight has been established.
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Unfortunatelly we're running out of time, so we're gonna have to
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save that topic for another lesson. Class dismissed.
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---END TRANSCRIPT---
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