The TWE
Run by Secretary General Lyov, the TWE is a mainly communist government.
Their main goal, is to help their worker's as much as they can... supposedly
The TWE is founded upon multiple articles within a constitution.
At any time the Secretary General can edit these without permission.
Article #1
Currency
1-1: All currency is to be confiscated and replaced with a single goverment controled internal monetary unit
any found in possesion of other monetary units after the confiscation period are liable to be arrested [see Article 6]
1-2: In consideration of the saftey of Goverment currency, all external currencies are to be rendered null and void,
unless stated otherwise [see Article 2]
[All Non Tau Worker's rights party groups, including those monetary units used by other civilisations]
Article #2
Leadership and goverment powers
2-1: As of the time of writing, All opposing political parties are to be outlawed [see Article 6]
Showing alliegience to any non leading party or party member is considered a crime ['']
2-2: The current General Secretary can overule and edit any article without meeting of a council.
Edits to the constitution are permitted following agreement of all lead council members.
2-3: The General Secretary holds the following positions by default:
Head of Navy
Head of Millitary
The General Secretary must be the first to be asked to fufil a lead role.
2-4: The General Secretary can allow for external currency to be used should it be deemed benificial.
Article #3
Workers rights
3-1: All workers are to be given a minimum wage and if needed Ration slips. [See Article 4]
3-2: Affordable housing is to be made a Right, and buisness owners with a income larger than 10x that of minimum wage
Must pay a housing development Tax of 20% of all buisness related income, any person found evading this tax are liable
to be arrested [See Article 6]
Any buisness with a income 20x that of minimum wage must be seen to build accomodation for all employees and family.
3-3: All workers have the right to go on strike,
however any strike directed at the current leadership falls under 6-3 and is punishable by imprisonment [see article 6]
Article #4
Food and Water Rights
4-1: Access to reliable clean water sources and Affordable food is to be made a right
Any worker working more than 3 hours on average per day are liable for food slips [4-3]
4-2: Any individual found wasting food or water is to be fined for negligence.
4-3: All workers and their families can apply for food slips to get access to "free" food and water
paid for in full by the goverment.
Article #5
Family rights
5-1: Any family with a worker who works for more than 4 hours average per day can apply for family wide
Tax reductions and extra food slips for children.
Any family with less than 2 children below the age of 15 are unable to apply as normal rations and income can
provide enough.
5-2: Mothers are to be paid in a goverment tax reduction for their service in bringing up the next generations.
Fathers can also apply for this tax reduction if they can prove they are caring for their children.
5-3: Any found faking for tax reductions are liable for punishment [See Article 6]
Article #6
Law and crime against the goverment
6-1: Any criminal's fate is able to be decided by the General Secretary.
6-2: Any theft of goods or Goverment equiptment is punishable by imprisonment in labour camps or stations.
6-3: Any act of rebellion against the goverment is punishable by imprisonment or death,
this means any act to attempt to harm, weaken, or overthrow the current goverment or General Secretary.
Article #7
Robotic rights
7-1: any robot or AI with the capability to do one of the following:
Feel pain
Feel emotion
Be sentient
Can apply for rights. [Check with nearest police station for details]
Article #8
internal Law enforcement
8-1: A new policing force Is to be established by the Government, its purpose is to protect
the government and its population from internal and external threats. [NTWP]
8-2: The NTWP force is second only in power to the military and navy, any order not carried out when told by
a NTWP force officer is punishable by imprisonment [See Article 6]
Any trusted NTWP officer is able to exercise absolute authority over civilians
Article #9
civil and regulated spaceflight
9-1: cheap civil spaceflight is not to be considered a right to any populace
however protection of civil shipping lanes and stations will continue through the navy and NTWP forces.
[See article 8]
9-2: Starport regulations must be followed at all times, exluding during wartime or if otherwise stated by
NTWP or the starport in question.
9-3: All ship owners must posess a licence and tax registration for their ship, failiure to have paid Tax falls under
Article 6 and is punishable by removal of licence and ship.
9-4: Piracy quite simply is punishable by death.
Bounties and kill warrants are placed on those ships deemed unlawful by the NTWP or a system's local governor.
Article #10
Warship design
10-1: Warship design is to be handled by the chief designer and approved directly by the General Secretary before being put into production so resources are not wasted on failed designs.
10-2: all components including weaponary must be fully internal and must not rely on external sources to allow for self sufficiency
10-3: the so called superweapons ban is to be lifted [since 21/08] and designers will no longer be arrested for designing or constructing approved superweapons capable of destroying a planet, only designs approved by the General Secretary will be allowed and construction of banned weaponry is a arrestable offence
[see article 6]
10-4: Size limits will be removed, and designs costing less than 100,000,000c will be considered for mass production.
[see ship class "Covet" for an example of 1km+ design styles]
10-5: Shields on ships below 500m are to be directional, any larger than 500m can utilize complete shielding.
The TWE occupies two regions, the core STE region and the outer STE regions.
One of their main goals is to fully integrate the outer region and not require it to be evacuated when conflict starts.
absolute authority at all costs
Ships
The TWE use modular designed vessels, able to be mass produced easily.
Their current fleet stands at 14 main fleets, and 10 misc fleets in strength.
Apperance:
Vastly different from one another, due to a much longer period of pre space age evolution, and slower transition to becoming civilized. And also due to the now dead Tau-A1 being absolutely huge.
Tau-Beings fit into these different categories:
Humanoids:
typically humanoid beings, such as furred and scaled creatures, but not entirely human. Lifespans often shorter than Earth-humans, typically have animal features while keeping a humanoid shape.
Humans:
none remain citizens after the events at the Dyson sphere.
Aquatic:
Almost all gone, due to their reluctance to board the Tau-planetship during the evacuation, but where varied, and often not that human at all, leading to their segregation from most society.
Insectoid:
Owing to the existence of so many different languages on Tau, for an eternity most species thought of them as pests, barbaric and cruel, until one day a "bug" managed to sound enough like intelligent creatures to become "accepted in society", of course, they weren't. The only surviving insectoid race are the Ildirans, four legged creatures around 1+1/3 the size of a human, with a vertical mandible to knock prey off their feet/paws.
Multiple legged:
driven to extinction long ago by other species during tribal ages, not much is remembered about them, other than that they where rather tall, and often could not wear any protective armour, due to their size, which made them strong, but weakly defended large targets, hence becoming extinct.
Others:
*during the voyagers trip, various other species where found, but most where very similar to the hundreds of sub-species of the above categories.
Glory to the workers, Glory to the TWE