Hi All,
The Bahar Khusboo or Springtime Fragrance, as the Martians were known, had only ever colonised one planet: their own. Mars had once been the centre of their civilisation, especially their religion, from which they explored the cosmos. Then one day they found themselves at war with a vicious civilisation. The war itself lasted for several million years, during which Mars itself was thought lost in the space time vortex. The Bahar eventually won this war and went on to forge a vast empire of several different universes, although they lived on giant orbitals and stations. Recently they had discovered a temporal dimensional wormhole. To their astonishment they had found their long lost planet and began to rebuild it. The humans that had already considered Mars to be their home were allowed to stay. In fact human Martians have a far better life under Bahar rule than under any human government, by any metric or index you'd care to ask for and despite the perpetual propaganda from Earth, 99.9% of Martian humans wanted to remain Imperial Citizens.
The primary source of conflict between Earth and Mars was what the Americans called 'freedom of navigation', this doctrine clashed with interstellar law. In brief interstellar law said that a planetary government had jurisdiction over the planet's orbit, in the same way on Earth nation states had territorial waters and economic exclusive zones. In turn this meant that any ships passing through this orbit could be liable to taxes, tolls and insurance requirements. America and other Earth governments rejected this idea as they did not want to hinder the trade between themselves and the various colonies on the asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ,Neptune or the Plutiods. Thus in the past couple of years a dangerous game of chicken had been played between Mars and Earth shipping companies passing through Mars orbit. In exasperation the Bahar decided to build a ring around their planet's orbit, so space craft had no choice but to dock, pay the tolls, taxes, fees and insurance covers on route to the other planets.
The primary source of conflict between Earth and Mars was what the Americans called 'freedom of navigation', this doctrine clashed with interstellar law. In brief interstellar law said that a planetary government had jurisdiction over the planet's orbit, in the same way on Earth nation states had territorial waters and economic exclusive zones. In turn this meant that any ships passing through this orbit could be liable to taxes, tolls and insurance requirements. America and other Earth governments rejected this idea as they did not want to hinder the trade between themselves and the various colonies on the asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ,Neptune or the Plutiods. Thus in the past couple of years a dangerous game of chicken had been played between Mars and Earth shipping companies passing through Mars orbit. In exasperation the Bahar decided to build a ring around their planet's orbit, so space craft had no choice but to dock, pay the tolls, taxes, fees and insurance covers on route to the other planets.
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