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prohibited by the Confederation Assembly in order to prevent cultural contamination.
So far only one pre-industrial species has been found: the Jiciro. Confederation Navy
monitor satellites have been placed in their star system to monitor compliance with
the no-contact law, while universities sponsored by the Assembly maintain a discreet
watch on the Jiciro civilization via stealthed low-orbit observation satellites.

Contact with xenocs is automatically permitted when they have a spacefaring
technology, although precisely what capability must be demonstrated is subject to
debate. A life-support capsule launched into orbit with a chemical rocket is not
usually deemed sufficient, whereas regular interplanetary flights are. Discovery of
Confederation monitoring systems would also be a valid means of proving
technological maturity. The only exception to this rule so far have been the Kiint,
who are simply not interested in space travel but whose social and cultural maturity
obviously exceeds both Adamist and Edenist levels.

Resources
The mining of planetary mineral resources, with its subsequent environmental
contamination, is no longer practiced, thanks to the perfection of cost-effective
asteroid mineral-extraction techniques. However, this does mean that a star system
must have sufficient asteroids in convenient orbits before the establishment of a
technological- and industrial-based colony can be considered. Planets in a star system
without an asteroid ring are usually settled by groups searching only for a pastoral
existence. There is no legal prohibition against developing planetary surface mining if
this pastoral life is rejected at a later date. But disaffected colonists searching for a
more technologically advanced culture tend to emigrate to a world with a culture they
find more acceptable than farming and base-line manufacturing.

Gas giants
Because of the cost involved in importing He3to a system which does not have a gas
giant, any asteroid settlements in such a system will suffer economic penalties in
comparison to settlements in other systems where He3is mined, and therefore cheaper
(see Edenist Economy,page 39 , for the two-tier price system). Therefore a gas giant
which can be mined for He3has become a prerequisite in establishing a (non-pastoral)
colony, unless there are exceptional extenuating circumstances. Any institution
attempting to set up a system-wide colonization project (apart from the Kulu
Kingdom principalities) has to have Edenist cooperation, although this is granted in
virtually all cases, provided the founders (normally a development company) can
successfully demonstrate the projectтАЩs viability. Edenists will not help founders who
devise a deliberately oppressive constitution.


Constitutions
These are written by the founding group, who may incorporate any doctrine they
wish (see Gas giants, above, for Edenist censure). However, as nearly all colonies are
now founded by financial concerns, constitutions are designed to encourage industry
and commerce in order to pay off the original investment. This tends to negate any
restrictive or oppressive charter which would inhibit wealth creation, and of course it
has to provide enough incentivesтАФsuch as free land and low-interest loansтАФto attract
colonists.