{"data":{"id":14578,"title":"This Day in History: A Foundation of Rights","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/14578-This-Day-In-History-A-Foundation-Of-Rights","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/14578","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/14578","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":727,"name":"ThisDayInHistoryFI2.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/j9vnjqd2pny04r\/source\/ThisDayInHistoryFI2.jpg","alt":"","size":1869743,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-08-19T21:16:16+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/727","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/727\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"THIS DAY IN HISTORY\nMarch 10, 2525 SET\n\nThe Foundation of Rights\n\nIt was a time of expansion. Ship technology had become much more accessible to the masses thanks to sustained trade with the Banu Protectorate. As more and more people were getting out into space, it seemed like jump points were being discovered every few months. Terraforming companies of all sizes began to spring up to try and compete for the rush of new systems. Exploration seized the public\u2019s attention and tales of explorers inflamed their imagination.\n\nAmong the systems that had already been discovered, where settlements were growing into towns and towns into cities, things were becoming a little more complicated.\n\nThe transition from the United Nations of Earth into the United Planets of Earth had occurred almost two (standard) years prior and the evolution was not without its hiccups. The Senate, now composed of planetary representatives, finally had its first session (nearly every single record of the era described this session as \u201ctumultuous\u201d) while the tribunal of High Secretary, High Advocate and High General were still trying to figure out their roles.\n\nThe first great task of this newly formed government was to construct a foundation on which to govern. This diverse group of newly elected senators came from a wide variety of political systems, so the discussion brought a series of conflicting local laws to the government\u2019s attention. Even the basic question of what a government is obligated to provide varied from planet to planet, with some providing broad social services and others only providing military protection and law enforcement.\n\nThe various sides clashed for months trying to work out a complicated system that could accommodate the various perspectives, but ultimately a senator from Davien took the floor.\n\nNomi Rao had made a name for herself in local law enforcement and as a Solicitor on Cestulus before entering politics. She won by an overwhelming margin but had spoken very few words since arriving on Earth for the formation of the Senate. During the debate that had seized the Senate floor, she did not participate. She simply listened and considered the debate that raged around her.\n\nFinally on 2525-03-10, Senator Rao asked to be recognized. Over the course of the next hour, she outlined a plan to provide a foundation of basic rights and services to which every planet in a UPE-claimed system, regardless of their representation status, would be subject.\n\nThese rights and services included what she called \u2018fundamental personal freedoms\u2019 as well as standardized safety practices for structures and products, health services, basic education, trade and travel, and a security force.\n\nOutside of these basic services, the planet and local governments could be free to create any style of government or law as long as it doesn\u2019t contradict with these baseline rights.\n\nThe motion became known as Common Laws Initiative.\n\nOne would have hoped that the combative elements of the Senate would have accepted this proposal and the simplicity of it would have united them in approval.\n\nIt didn\u2019t. The presentation of the Common Laws instantly ignited another firestorm of argument. Newly settled worlds balked at the notion of providing services for inhabitants \u2014 how could they when they were barely in their infancy? Some of the larger, more-established planets refused to support such a notion, believing that they be inevitably tasked with financially supporting those developing or struggling planets.\n\nSenator Rao refused to be overwhelmed. This quiet senator from Davien worked tirelessly with opponents and proponents alike to mold and shape the initiative into a system that worked.\n\nThe Common Laws passed almost a year later and \u2014 while they have been amended from time to time \u2014 still fill a core role in the empire\u2019s governance.","de_DE":"AN DIESEM TAG IN DER GESCHICHTE\n10. M\u00e4rz 2525 SET\n\nDie Stiftung der Rechte\n\nEs war eine Zeit der Expansion. Die Schiffstechnologie war durch den anhaltenden Handel mit dem Protektorat Banu f\u00fcr die Massen viel zug\u00e4nglicher geworden. Als immer mehr Menschen ins All kamen, schien es, als w\u00fcrden alle paar Monate Sprungbretter entdeckt. Terraformingunternehmen aller Gr\u00f6\u00dfen begannen zu entstehen, um zu versuchen, um den Ansturm neuer Systeme zu bew\u00e4ltigen. Die Erkundung erregte die Aufmerksamkeit der \u00d6ffentlichkeit und Geschichten von Entdeckern entfachten ihre Fantasie.\n\nUnter den bereits entdeckten Systemen, bei denen Siedlungen zu St\u00e4dten und St\u00e4dte zu St\u00e4dten wurden, wurde es etwas komplizierter.\n\nDer \u00dcbergang von den Vereinten Nationen der Erde zu den Vereinigten Planeten der Erde war fast zwei (Standard-)Jahre zuvor erfolgt, und die Entwicklung verlief nicht ohne Schluckauf. Der Senat, der sich nun aus Vertretern der Planeten zusammensetzt, hatte schlie\u00dflich seine erste Sitzung (fast alle Aufzeichnungen der damaligen Zeit bezeichneten diese Sitzung als \"tumultartig\"), w\u00e4hrend das Tribunal des Hohen Sekret\u00e4rs, des Hohen Vertreters und des Hohen Generals noch versuchte, ihre Rollen herauszufinden.\n\nDie erste gro\u00dfe Aufgabe dieser neu gebildeten Regierung war es, eine Grundlage f\u00fcr die Regierung zu schaffen. Diese vielf\u00e4ltige Gruppe von neu gew\u00e4hlten Senatoren stammte aus den unterschiedlichsten politischen Systemen, so dass die Diskussion eine Reihe von widerspr\u00fcchlichen lokalen Gesetzen in die Aufmerksamkeit der Regierung brachte. Selbst die grundlegende Frage, zu was eine Regierung verpflichtet ist, war von Planet zu Planet unterschiedlich, wobei einige umfassende soziale Dienstleistungen erbringen und andere nur milit\u00e4rischen Schutz und Strafverfolgung bieten.\n\nDie verschiedenen Seiten stie\u00dfen monatelang zusammen und versuchten, ein kompliziertes System zu entwickeln, das den verschiedenen Perspektiven gerecht werden konnte, aber schlie\u00dflich ergriff ein Senator aus Davien das Wort.\n\nNomi Rao hatte sich vor ihrem Eintritt in die Politik einen Namen in der lokalen Strafverfolgung und als Anwalt bei Cestulus gemacht. Sie gewann mit \u00fcberw\u00e4ltigendem Abstand, hatte aber seit ihrer Ankunft auf der Erde f\u00fcr die Bildung des Senats nur wenige Worte gesprochen. W\u00e4hrend der Debatte, die das Wort des Senats ergriffen hatte, nahm sie nicht teil. Sie h\u00f6rte einfach zu und betrachtete die Debatte, die um sie herum w\u00fctete.\n\nSchlie\u00dflich, am 2525-03-10, bat Senator Rao darum, anerkannt zu werden. Im Laufe der n\u00e4chsten Stunde skizzierte sie einen Plan zur Schaffung einer Grundlage f\u00fcr Grundrechte und Dienstleistungen, denen jeder Planet in einem von der UPE beanspruchten System, unabh\u00e4ngig von seinem Repr\u00e4sentationsstatus, unterliegen w\u00fcrde.\n\nZu diesen Rechten und Dienstleistungen geh\u00f6rten die so genannten \"pers\u00f6nlichen Grundfreiheiten\" sowie standardisierte Sicherheitspraktiken f\u00fcr Strukturen und Produkte, Gesundheitsdienste, Grundbildung, Handel und Reisen und eine Sicherheitskr\u00e4fte.\n\nAu\u00dferhalb dieser Grundversorgung k\u00f6nnten der Planet und die lokalen Regierungen frei sein, jeden Regierungs- oder Rechtsstil zu schaffen, solange dies nicht im Widerspruch zu diesen Grundrechten steht.\n\nDer Antrag wurde als Common Laws Initiative bekannt.\n\nMan h\u00e4tte gehofft, dass die k\u00e4mpferischen Elemente des Senats diesen Vorschlag angenommen h\u00e4tten und die Einfachheit des Vorschlags sie in der Zustimmung vereint h\u00e4tte.\n\nDas hat es nicht. Die Pr\u00e4sentation der Common Laws entz\u00fcndete sofort einen weiteren Feuersturm der Argumentation. Neu angesiedelte Welten scheuten die Vorstellung, Dienstleistungen f\u00fcr die Bewohner zu erbringen - wie konnten sie das tun, wenn sie noch kaum in den Kinderschuhen steckten? Einige der gr\u00f6\u00dferen, etablierteren Planeten weigerten sich, einen solchen Gedanken zu unterst\u00fctzen, da sie glaubten, dass sie unweigerlich damit beauftragt sind, diejenigen finanziell zu unterst\u00fctzen, die sich entwickelnde oder k\u00e4mpfende Planeten entwickeln oder unterst\u00fctzen.\n\nSenator Rao weigerte sich, \u00fcberw\u00e4ltigt zu sein. Dieser stille Senator aus Davien arbeitete unerm\u00fcdlich mit Gegnern und Bef\u00fcrwortern zusammen, um die Initiative zu einem funktionierenden System zu formen und zu gestalten.\n\nDie Common Laws wurden fast ein Jahr sp\u00e4ter verabschiedet und erf\u00fcllen - obwohl sie von Zeit zu Zeit ge\u00e4ndert wurden - immer noch eine zentrale Rolle bei der F\u00fchrung des Imperiums.","zh_CN":"THIS DAY IN HISTORY\nMarch 10, 2525 SET\n\nThe Foundation of Rights\n\nIt was a time of expansion. Ship technology had become much more accessible to the masses thanks to sustained trade with the Banu Protectorate. As more and more people were getting out into space, it seemed like jump points were being discovered every few months. Terraforming companies of all sizes began to spring up to try and compete for the rush of new systems. Exploration seized the public\u2019s attention and tales of explorers inflamed their imagination.\n\nAmong the systems that had already been discovered, where settlements were growing into towns and towns into cities, things were becoming a little more complicated.\n\nThe transition from the United Nations of Earth into the United Planets of Earth had occurred almost two (standard) years prior and the evolution was not without its hiccups. The Senate, now composed of planetary representatives, finally had its first session (nearly every single record of the era described this session as \u201ctumultuous\u201d) while the tribunal of High Secretary, High Advocate and High General were still trying to figure out their roles.\n\nThe first great task of this newly formed government was to construct a foundation on which to govern. This diverse group of newly elected senators came from a wide variety of political systems, so the discussion brought a series of conflicting local laws to the government\u2019s attention. Even the basic question of what a government is obligated to provide varied from planet to planet, with some providing broad social services and others only providing military protection and law enforcement.\n\nThe various sides clashed for months trying to work out a complicated system that could accommodate the various perspectives, but ultimately a senator from Davien took the floor.\n\nNomi Rao had made a name for herself in local law enforcement and as a Solicitor on Cestulus before entering politics. She won by an overwhelming margin but had spoken very few words since arriving on Earth for the formation of the Senate. During the debate that had seized the Senate floor, she did not participate. She simply listened and considered the debate that raged around her.\n\nFinally on 2525-03-10, Senator Rao asked to be recognized. Over the course of the next hour, she outlined a plan to provide a foundation of basic rights and services to which every planet in a UPE-claimed system, regardless of their representation status, would be subject.\n\nThese rights and services included what she called \u2018fundamental personal freedoms\u2019 as well as standardized safety practices for structures and products, health services, basic education, trade and travel, and a security force.\n\nOutside of these basic services, the planet and local governments could be free to create any style of government or law as long as it doesn\u2019t contradict with these baseline rights.\n\nThe motion became known as Common Laws Initiative.\n\nOne would have hoped that the combative elements of the Senate would have accepted this proposal and the simplicity of it would have united them in approval.\n\nIt didn\u2019t. The presentation of the Common Laws instantly ignited another firestorm of argument. Newly settled worlds balked at the notion of providing services for inhabitants \u2014 how could they when they were barely in their infancy? Some of the larger, more-established planets refused to support such a notion, believing that they be inevitably tasked with financially supporting those developing or struggling planets.\n\nSenator Rao refused to be overwhelmed. This quiet senator from Davien worked tirelessly with opponents and proponents alike to mold and shape the initiative into a system that worked.\n\nThe Common Laws passed almost a year later and \u2014 while they have been amended from time to time \u2014 still fill a core role in the empire\u2019s governance."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":53,"created_at":"2015-03-11T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"11 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-14 12:26:41","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":14576,"next_id":14579}}