Article V: The UN and the Colonies accept Fleet’s position as the interstellar arbiter of power and effective ruler of the Federation. They agree to make no challenges to Fleet in its area of power and providing funding, personnel and state-operated bases.
Article VI: Fleet agrees to accept responsibility for preventing interstellar war, suppressing privacy and safeguarding the flow of interstellar commence. Fleet also agrees to refrain from developing any sizable ground combat force (see appendix two) and limit the Fleet Marines to five hundred thousand combat effectives.
Article VII: Fleet agrees to recognise the internal independence of all human worlds and agrees to avoid interfering in their internal affairs, provided that they respect the Protocols governing human affairs. Fleet will not intervene in any internal affairs that do not threaten third parties, regardless of the issues involved. Fleet will maintain one garrison on all human worlds charged with recruiting for Fleet and overseeing interstellar affairs.
Article VIII: The UN and the Colonies agree to refrain from attempting to subvert or hamper Fleet in the performance of its duties.
Article IX: All human-settled planets, including Earth, agree to send representatives to Unity to draw up protocols for further interaction between human worlds. Those articles will form the basis of a Federation of inhabited worlds, providing the civil government for humanity.
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