[RFC] Handwavium Law in the US

[robkelk]

Think about this:

I have, and your scenario is essentially a prelude to a War on Fen. Which honestly I don't think any of us want. Am I wrong?

As far as I'm concerned, the Boskone War is enough war for the setting.

I'm expecting that Port Luna will eventually turn into Fenspace's "embassy town;" I already picture the USCG administering only Tranquility Base and a civilian government associated with the Convention running the rest of the city.

It never got out of head-notes, but I had Port Luna sketched out as, well, the big US town in Fenspace. Sort of an independent territory like Guam.

If folks would prefer that, then we can move the Convention Authority office to Kandor or Moonbase Alpha. It hasn't actually appeared in a story yet...

(As for having a permanent office: as I mentioned elsewhere, some countries insist on sending diplomatic mail to a real address, rather than "General Delivery, Stellvia." Even Worldcon has a permanent address in Cambridge, MA, and a permanent website. And the master records of decisions have to be kept somewhere... especially considering that they're binding on all Fen in the Convention.)

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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012