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I am currently looking for any interesting laws and regulations to add into my sci-fi world. At the core of it, humans being the only living species in the milky way aren't allowed to cross a border that closes them from a larger galaxy because of their destructive nature. Aside from this, what are a few ideas for laws and policies and regulations either pertaining to this idea or laws that govern completely different areas such as trade and space garbage-dumping and energy supply/usage? Any suggestions and ideas are greatly appreciated.
- Communication standards. Even in ultra mega giga buttery soft scifi a star system is BIG and lots and lots of different things are gonna develop. Each ship's gonna want to have a set of very highly standardized communication protocols so people can know what's going on. This might in fact be something that supercedes stuff like weapons & drug bans and gets upheld even between warring factions just so extermination doesn't become a way to say hello. This would involve anything from measurements to navigational data to low-level encryption etc.
- Self Replication Interdiction. Anything that can make more of itself at a rate exceeding a set standard = Bad = Shoot on sight. That can be machines, software or biological agents. This gets worse the softer your scifi is because it speeds up the rate at which things can spread. In very paranoid systems this means bread, beer and sauerkraut are verboten.
- Mining claims need to be backed by either a beacon or a human presence within a given distance.
- THIS IS NOT A MINING LASER STOP PLAYING WITH ME SPACER
- NOBODY NEEDS A "POINT DEFENSE" COIL GUN WITH A NEAR-RELATIVISTIC PROJECTILE SPEED
- When in port all communications have to be routed through the port's network. No filling the ether with gigawatt-levels of radio comms designed to screech from one side of the solar system to the next.
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