As part of settlement safety, each colonist must be able to quickly outfit themselves in space/pressure suits, be able to seal their location against vaccuum/contamination in case of hull/atmospheric breach, and have access to first aid tools and supplies.
As part of settlement safety, each contained habitat or settlement must contain individual modules with full airlocks in case of breaches to the habitat hull or containment system. Each module must contain a minimum of 2 hatches or docking ports to enable quick removal or respositioning of damaged sections. Larger sections, such as a central hub of a station, will by definition have more hatches unless the specialized usage of the module prohibits this.
Specialized usages that may prohibit sufficient hatches from being placed on a section may include:
Any self-sufficient settlement should provide a sufficient education to prepare its citizens for the available work both in and out of their home settlements. This education must include disaster prevention and safety skills such as first aid, airlock safety, and depressurization survival skills.
Sufficient communications should include multiply redundant communications arrays including separate personal, media, corporate, and governmental systems. Each settlement will be responsible for its own Fair Communications regulations.
It is suggested that settlements have 8 communication tranceivers, at the designated
It should be noted that there is no current way to produce duplex transmissions to any settlement further than a few lightseconds from sender to receiver. By the time this becomes an issue, it is hoped that research into tachyons, superstrings, or an undiscovered branch of physics will have addressed this issue.
Existing man-made objects off-earth will have at the time of ratification of this charter, 25 earth-solar years to be removed or made compliant with the provisions herein contained.
There exists in this category a goldmine of raw materials for use in the development of new settlements that could otherwise become a danger to any orbital facility if it does not fall to earth (with all possibility, hopefully, of disentegrating in the atmosphere).
An existing self-sufficient colony can not be converted to penal colony status. This would be a great inconvenience to the industry, agriculture, and citizens of the colony.
Penal colonies may exist as seperate, govermentally run settlements and must never be self-sufficient. It is envisioned that once a penal colony reaches self-sufficient status either the convicts will be transported to a new colony or the colony will be granted independence to be run according to this charter.
A labor intensive penal colony will be one of the following types:
Expansion of this list is expected to occur as technology improves. It is advised that penal colonies be administered by a multi-governmental body to prevent violations of this charter.
