ooc: This is not, of course, the full contract, but was the exerpt that we had for a time, until Funcom redid their web site.
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The Case of Rubi-Ka
Rubi-Ka is becoming a planet with increasing influence in the intergalactic power struggle. This feature tries to explain Rubi-Ka's significance.
om the archives of TrueSpace Network (TSN)
by Peter S. Homer of TSN 29442
To explain how the politics of the ICC have been employed to balance a very delicate situation, let us examine Rubi-Ka.
The planet Rubi-Ka is a galactic power center, only because it is the sole source of Notum, the vital element in the Nano-Bot production, in the the entire Galaxy.
When Omni-Tek® secured itself the lease-ownership of the planet, it was before other corporations knew anything about the Golden Red Dust of the so far unattractive planet. When ICC realised the enormous hold Omni-Tek® would get of the Intergalactic (IG) market they started to sanction the hypercorporation.
Even a hypercorporation with the internal strength of Omni-Tek® still depends on access to markets on the planets owned by other companies. Under such pressure, the unwilling Omni-Tek® yielded to ICC, granting restrictions on what they could and could not do.
These were set down in a 6,730-page contract, but can basically be summed up in the following points (this was in the year 3563):
* Omni-Tek® gets a free extended lease of Rubi-Ka for 30,000 years.
* Omni-Tek® gets sole ownership and export-rights to the planet's Notum ore.
* Omni-Tek® will adhere to the Notum pricing standards set by the ICC.
* Omni-Tek® will not persecute inhabitants of Rubi-Ka, who normally would be a free people after 5,000 years. (The normal span of the ICC Solar System lease rights. This clause has led to the interesting rise of something called "The Clans".)
* Omni-Tek® will let other companies freely settle on the planet surface to conduct research.
* Omni-Tek® will let all Nano-Tek® patents be freely available for reproduction with the standard profit margin allotted to the company.
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Notes and Comment by Davyn:
ooc: There are a few problems with this document, based on the “Prophet Without Honor” (which should be considered the higher authority on history). That’s probably why this document was removed recently; in order to prevent confusion until new documentation could be posted.
Here are a couple of known problems with the above contract:
* Rubi-Ka was discovered by Omni-Tek in 28702. Meaning, the contract has NOT been in place for 30,000 years—more like 1000 (the current in-game year is 29475).
* That also means the ‘free people after 5000 years’ clause is likely bogus as well.
However, the spirit of the contract CAN be extrapolated from the posted data. The ICC roped Omni-Tek into this contract (it wasn’t Omni-Tek’s desire, but they did it because they had to.) Also, Omni-Tek cannot ‘persecute’ inhabitants of Rubi-Ka, according to the contract. If they could have, the clans never would have arisen to comprise half the planet’s population.