Osiris Fraternal Order

Treaty of Tatooine

Foreword

Recognizing the potential for a great and lasting bond and affirming their belief in common understanding and respect, The New Galactic Empire and Osiris, hereafter referred to as "the signatories", agree to and declare the following treaty;

Article I - Mutual recognition
1. The signatories recognize the governments established by the Constitution of The New Galactic Empire and the State Code of Osiris, and any legally enacted successor governments, as the legitimate governments of The New Galactic Empire and Osiris.
2. The signatories recognize each other’s legitimate governments as sovereign entities.

Article II - Diplomatic Relations
1. The signatories guarantee continuing diplomatic relations with each other.
2. The signatories agree to open and maintain in-game and off-site forum embassies with each other.

Article III - Mutual Defense
1. The signatories agree not to invade signatory home regions nor to undertake any military action aimed at the overthrow of the signatories' legitimate governments.
2. The signatories agree to provide mutual defense to each other, when requested by the chief executives of the signatories' legitimate governments.
3. Defense may include providing in-game World Assembly endorsements to the signatories' legitimate Delegates, Vice Delegates, and/or Osiris’ Guardians of Atef, as applicable and whenever possible, as well as verbal declarations of support by the chief executives or the most senior foreign affairs officials of the signatories' legitimate governments.

Article IV - Military Cooperation
1. The signatories agree that they will respect the sovereign right of each signatory's official military forces to undertake any military operation that does not violate any provision of this treaty.
2. The signatories agree in principle to military cooperation, provided that such cooperation does not violate their own laws or established executive and/or military policies and provided that the operation is deemed mutually beneficial by the relevant executive and/or military official(s) of both signatories.
3. Neither signatory is obligated to participate in any operation, excluding mutual defense operations as described above, that includes other military forces.

Article V - Culture

1. The signatories agree to allow in-game and offsite advertisement of each others cultural and educational events.
2. The signatories agree to participate in a joint Role Play run by The New Galactic Empire and to be hosted on the forums of The Osiris Fraternal Order. The nature and contents of this Role Play are to be determined by the legitimate governments of the signatory regions.

Article VI - Dissolution
1. Either signatory may withdraw from this treaty after providing notice in the embassy maintained on the other signatory's off-site forum at least seven days prior to the withdrawal.
2. The signatories agree to undertake all reasonable effort to seek diplomatic solutions to problems that may arise between the signatories before withdrawing from this treaty.