Agents Of Empire/Bills/GrazeneHomesteading

Overview

This is the bill Grazene introduces for a vote. Your House can vote in favor, vote against, attempt to delay the vote, or not vote.

Bill Text

The important points of the bill are as follows:

• Insufficiently settled worlds are now legally free for colonization by nearby Houses
• A House can determine whether a world is insufficiently settled by making a subspace radio broadcast to the world from an orbiting ship; if the broadcast is not responded to within a week, the planet is free for colonization
• Houses which settle worlds in such a manner receive a 5 mega-credit tax break to reward them for making more productive use of the land and creating a larger tax base for the Empire

Voting

• Advantage: Votes in favour, but tries to sneak a rider or two on.
• Aramin: Votes in favor
• Intrepid: House Intrepid votes IN FAVOUR of The Grazene Homesteading Bill.
• Prime: Votes in favor

Results

The measure passes! House Grazene's representatives seem pleased with the support of the colony worlds for this measure, and promise their support for your upcoming bill.

A week or so later, word filters back to the empire that MQaiaa has been occupied by Grazene troops which landed immediately after the vote passed. MQaia's embassy in the empire files a protest, but Grazene files a counter-claim, pointing out they made a broadcast as required by law and received no response. MQaia's representative angrily points out their sole subspace-radio-capable tower in the capitol was sabotaged days earlier; Grazene responds disclaiming responsibility for the acts of unnamed mercenaries and suggesting it may have been pro-technology insurgents withing MQaian society. And there the matter seems to rest for the moment, though the situation is hardly stable.