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The Caldari State a model for the future of space flight?
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XNCReman
Soviet Directorate of Eve
#1 - 2014-02-28 23:12:27 UTC
So today I was thinking of the company’s that are looking into mining space for resources and the legality behind "claiming" stuff in space. Under the current international agreements no sovereign country can claim any thing in space(I don't know if this would apply for a world federation or not) but private individuals and company’s can. So I can see that if we start colonization space, it would have a similar structure as the Caldari state(Think along the lines of the Hudson’s bay company) but with rules akin to the Laws of the Sea.
Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#2 - 2014-02-28 23:42:36 UTC
It seems to be that way. Capitalism and profit will certainly help to drive the colonization and exploitation of space. And it seems that corporations have more freedom to do things in space than nations do right now too.

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Mizhir
Devara Biotech
#3 - 2014-03-01 10:44:30 UTC
Corporations tend to be run by competent people unlike governments.

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Angelique Duchemin
Team Evil
#4 - 2014-03-01 11:17:05 UTC
I have hard time seeing how earth governments would be able to extend their monopoly on violence into remote space operations. Or even be able to collect taxes or justify taxes in placed where all infrastructure is provided by the corporation.

The Corporations will probably play along for the first few decades with the nearest bases to earth but.


But even then I find it more likely that these corporations will have bought our governments in one form or another long before they are independent enough to be able to ignore the governments.

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XNCReman
Soviet Directorate of Eve
#5 - 2014-03-02 02:05:37 UTC
Angelique Duchemin wrote:
I have hard time seeing how earth governments would be able to extend their monopoly on violence into remote space operations. Or even be able to collect taxes or justify taxes in placed where all infrastructure is provided by the corporation.

The Corporations will probably play along for the first few decades with the nearest bases to earth but.


But even then I find it more likely that these corporations will have bought our governments in one form or another long before they are independent enough to be able to ignore the governments.



I only see then taxing stuff that comes down, as for control or space, I can't see them controlling much beyond their own air space... I don't see "NASA or ESA" leading the space expolartion of the solar system, or even to the stars( if Alcubierre drive works out). If corporations do it, space would be open to more people, and not just the rich.
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#6 - 2014-03-03 23:38:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Bagrat Skalski
Basically, anyone who have science and money to go into space, and defend the space he is willing to defend, will physically claim the space for himself. This includes corporations, states, sects or cults, same as religion, ideologic movements and organizations, pirates and anyone who is capable.

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