Sol Resolution Number 12

By resolute accord, we the co-signatories have agreed to the following declaration.

Going as far back as the "Nacht und Nebel" directive issued in the 1940s to the Gestapo for political warfare purposes, it is our considered opinion that genocide benefits most, and indeed, has a confirmed pattern of attempting, to unperson those it seeks to exterminate.

Having in our hearts nothing but hate for those who would kill an entire people for being what they are, we have agreed:

That those that would unperson people on a massive scale should not be helped in any way to do so, nor find themselves helped by the inability of those so disappeared to testify to their own demises.

That should circumstancial evidence of genocide find itself bolstered by evidence of unpersoning those would-be victims of said crime, our courts would find in favour of guilt, provided the evidence of unpersoning be otherwise unmistakable.

— Preamble, Terran Resolution 12, 2645th Earth Congress.

"Our friends are going to find themselves in violation of Terran Resolution #12."
"What, why Rachel?"
"All those clones made to disappear if their gene-type doesn't 'flourish'? Emphasis theirs, by the way."
"What, oh."
"Twentieth century standards of genocide might not be bothered, but twenty-sixth? I can hear Manx screaming already."
"And Deutcherswiss. Can't resist a good soundbite."
"You know them better than I do."
"I was joking, I am on that committee, we try to be more responsible. But... It doesn't look good."
"How many people?"
"Two-million-three-hundred-thousand clones. That'll rile some ruffles on Terra. But at the same time, we'll want to punish the culprits, not abandon the victims.
"Many of which have exactly zero recourse."
"The cloners will argue that they were cloned... for this purpose! How dare we argue the culling of the unfit!"
"Except, they are people, they should find an environment in which to thrive, which most did not... Besides which, resolution 12 isn't a law in the conventional sense. It just allows laws to ignore 'some' evidence requirements in cases of genocide precisely because practically every genocide has been made harder to prosecute by destruction of evidence."
"It also codifies into law a systemic bias. One in which our human cloned descendants cannot do but do poorly."
"You are born a clone, and the best you can do is redeem me, your ancestor, or true-gene-mix or whatever, will not sell well on Sol III."
"Is it always the gene-parent that wins?"
"Some gene-lineages don't have one, so it's the oldest surviving clone, but that's hardly that much of an improvement..."
"Why not?"
"Every clone born trying to outlive his ancestors? With the prize survival of its identity? Of it's nature as a person? That could fly, at the cost of every other clone? That can't, not with the way Terra is going right now."
"Oh, there's movement?"
"Yeah, there's a motion from the Jing-Jin-Ji Meritocracy..."
"Oh, those are usually good for a laugh, but not much else..."
"Someone decided over there that if they were going to be censored for human rights, so must everyone else. They're pressuring for all enforcement of human rights issues to be mandatory."
"Including resolution 12?"
"They haven't come and said it outright, but considering it hasn't been invoked in a hundred years, on Sol or any of it's colonies..."
"Oh, indeed."
"Except, we can't enter the Epstein-Barr, not without allies."
"We'll have trouble at home, if our only allies are the Meritocracy."
"Yue Republic and the Republic of Hakka usually form a pretty cohesive block. We have our work cut out for us already, that's almost 2 billion people now."
"Out of what, ten?"
"Twelve soon."
"We're so fucked, how did they acquire so much?"
"The 'juicy' part of Asia has been angling for four billion since the turn of the century. Those two 'wayward children' of China are just the best at wrangling advantage out of it."
"How much is just Jing-Jin-Ji Meritocracy?"
"1,200 million. Don't think about it too much, but they're fully capable of raising a major stink on their own."
"That's a lot of people."
"They're not unaware of just how much of the global population it supports, of how much global trade relies on them."
"Remind me again, I've been in space too long?"
"We're starting at 300 million for some of those places..."
"And no one thought it'd be a good idea to break them up?"
"You know there's cultural taboos against interventionism."
"I just have a spacer's skepticism over the homogeneity they can display over such numbers, I mean, a city can only hold so many millions..."
"That's how these regions are created, they are built over a shared foundation of us against them."
"Agh."
"And they have numbers we can't even fathom, true, but we can't, we haven't, found faults with their methodologies, yet."
"Cities of untold billions, holders of untold voters."
"That's a Shamarrand quote, daughter, he's hardly innocent in this."
"Oh?"
"His rabble-rousing in India in the 2100s... Well, let's just say he encouraged some of those newer people..."
"I won't argue, like I said, I'm new from the stars."
"Well, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Macau, Beijing, Hunan, Shanghai, Nanjing, Jakarta, it's an elite neighbourhood."
"Kinda like the golden crescent?"
"Yeah, except those are elite oases. The Yangtse and Pearl deltas are more like an elite river valley or something, way too OP for anyone trying to balance things."
"Anyone in that neighbourhood to encourage... moderation?"
"Kanto Plains Administrative District."
"That has it's own problems, they're the Jing-Jin-Ji's main rivals."
"Yeah, the Meritocracy's never one to listen to reason gracefully, but especially not when it's their ancestral rivals."
"And the subcontinent?"
"Have their own fish to fry, for the moment, that typhoon hasn't even really abated yet."
"What?"
"Typhoon Kraken, you really just are off the ship... Everything west of Hainan island got badly hit, well the parts that were north of Indonesia."
"How many?"
"Twenty thousand, official. From Vietnam to Pakistan."
"What's the ratio?"
"The areas affected by the Typhoon rate almost seven billion people, the ratio is dang incredibly good, all things considered."
"Going back to resolution 12, would the ratio help?"
"No, not at all, if anything, the ratio is the scariest possible thing in all this. It's in the low fourties to a hundred."
"Wait, that can't be right."
"What?"
"Only two million deaths, and it's fourty per cent? Our Solan volunteer army would outnumber them. Those numbers are like the Tlalor's, not the Ruk's, how are they even still surviving?"
"You think someone's cooking the books?"
"Isn't that something almost inferred, in a Genocide?"
"If they're not destroyed outright? Yeah. But that's a scary thought, I mean, fourty per cent casualties..."
"Those are the numbers they're letting us Solans know about..."
"Solars, they call us Solars or Solarians."
"Why did they re-appropriate the word Terran?"
"Because it was in their constitution, that the authority of the Meritocracy came from Terra, some clever founder of one of their clans decided to declare Thallax III 'terran authority', and to continue in face of repeated silence to their attempts at communication."
"Oh, should have known it'd be something pragmatic like that."
"Does it matter?"
"If there's still a loophole, maybe."
"Oh, I'm hardly a solicitor, but my reading of their amendments to their constitution referring to our silence as reason enough to be deposed from ultimate constitutional authority sounded pretty final."
"How's Adian?"
"Tying himself in knots, just like you used to."
"I know the place he's in now, thinking he can do some good, even if in a limited capacity, after how the Fillifer and the Tlalor reached Terra."
"Well, all other things considered, you're right."
"Oh?"
"We need allies."
"My daughter agreed with me, and said I was right, I need to get a recording."
"Daddy!". Her reply was shrill, and her Dad almost dropped his glass. She knew him so well... Well, she was his daughter, and she'd lived with him and her late mother until she went to École de Guerre, and by then, she was an adult.
"Now, now, Rachel, you know you're usually harder on me than anyone else."
"I know, Daddy, but not when people can see..."
"I appreciate that, you always knew how to keep my ego manageable, while making sure I knew where you stood."
"I love you Daddy." She just grabbed his hand.
"I'm worried about you, and my Son-in-law, dear. You're out there."
"Daddy, I'm a gene-mix, I can handle it."
"But your sweet baboo?"
"He is sweet." She just smiled. "You're deflecting though."
"Urr, you know me too well, and I am worried about Adian specifically because of what I'm trying to avoid..."
"How the heck do we get allies? Do they sign the Sol protocols?"
"Urk. Kinda. What legal basis for alliance would we have? A custom treaty?"
"With all the non-human species, a custom treaty makes the most sense. With the Meritocracy and any other human-in-anything-but-name, the protocols themselves say we should bring them into our unity."
"Except, the year before we signed the protocols, we kicked out the Meritocracy, it wasn't called that yet though."
"No, they were just called the Thallaxu, and were half their current size, at best."
"I can't find out how or why we kicked them out though."
"You're a cabinet-level minister? What level can something be classified that you can't read?"
"I don't know. I keep finding references to Solarian Peace, but that makes no sense, even the protocols didn't exist yet."
"I'll give it a look, I didn't flunk intelligence gathering at school, Daddy."
"Imagine my relief, but remember, espionage is about the only crime with a mandatory death sentence that doesn't have mitigation written into the protocols..."
"Sorry I'm late."
"Welcome Adian."
"Welcome Son-in-law."
"Lovely to see you both. I hope my Military Attaché didn't bend your hear so far back it broke, Ambassador."
"Your attaché? Oh, you mean my daughter, Rachel? She's caused damage before, she was four at the time, since then she's moved on to bigger and better things..."
"Daddy!"
"Well, the metal baseball bat was a little hard to ignore, Rache."
Adian winced. "Remind me never to make you mad, honey."
"I did eventually learn baseball... Made the all-star team in school..."
"As a batter? All the more reason for me to be careful..." Rachel smirked, but said nothing.
"As a pitcher, all the more reason for you to be careful, she's learned to pitch things at a hundred miles an hour, or close enough. Make sure she doesn't aim them at your head."
"Daddy!" She was blowing him a raspberry. "As if I'd do that to my sweet baboo."
"You two are tense, what were you talking about that has you both so edgy?"
"Oh, our Meritocratic friends."
"The Jing-Jin-Ji?"
"Well, them, and the Terran Meritocracy."
"Oh, the latter are my concern..."
"Adian? You're still interim replacing me, while I'm pegged to be the Director of State Affairs for the Sol Commonwealth, whatever you think is your sole purview, knock it off... Besides, even if it was your sole purview, we should still support you in any way we can so that our interests stay aligned..."
"Oh, hrm, obviously, I'm a little tense about this."
"Have you met any kind of counterpart on the Meritocracy side?"
"No, when I'm received, it's always by fuchs e3a31fb1-2bcf-46fc-84c4-57082bbd4f1a."
"I hear she'll become hierarch."
"I did hear that, originally, now I'm hearing another Fuchs clone is in the lead."
"Is it always from the same clone line?" Rachel asked.
"No, although the last two processes had only that line, this is a new, possibly troubling phenomenon, or at least, a realignment of factions on their end." Her father opined.

Historical Details

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It is just under 310 years old, and has weathered many changes, mostly due to scope(it was originally only binding on Sol III(Terra Humanis)

Type

Manuscript, Legal

Authoring Date

2043

Ratification Date

2045

Expiration Date

Renewed/amended every 10 years

Signatories (Organizations)

Sol Resolution Number 12

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