working on developing some setting fluff here-<br /><br />we know that Zebulon had a governor appointed by the UPF from the Zebs guide timeline and <br />I speculated that another comment in the time line could be interpreted as Rhianna having an governor:<br />http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/7527<br /><br />so why does the UPF establish a territory and appoint a governor? one reason is that there are primitive sapient species present and the altruistically motivated COW wants to prevent their exploitation.<br /><br />Other reasons are possible: strategic and etc.<br /><br />mega corps naturally want to exploit resources in these locations and for the most part governors allow for this in limited areas but always watching for abuse of the primitives. a benefit of allowing some megacorp activity is that the mega corps end up building infra-structure that the UPF does not have to pay for but that the governor and other UPF representatives get to take advantage of- stations, star ports etc.<br /><br />I have a short list of three territories<br />Zebulon<br /><br />Rhianna (Alcazzar)<br /><br />Starmist <br /><br />Liberty system could be a special case- with an ambassadore and a strong Space Fleet presence perhaps modelled on post WW2 japan.
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