The symbol of the Shadow
Federation; this informal federation is the closest that the Hiders
have to a superpolity. Although
many individual Hider clades welcome the Greensong Accord, the Shadow
Federation itself has never formally ratified the agreement,
nor in fact has the Shadow Federation ever formally interacted
with any other body except the Deeper
Covenant.
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The Symbol of the Utopia Sphere
Although initially an accord between local Hiders and the Utopese
transapients, the Greensong Accord has been accepted by many other
transapient powers.
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The Greensong Accord is an agreement between
transapient
powers to limit their interaction with
Hider
clades.
The accord was first revealed in the Greensong system, by the
Utopia
Sphere
po Alfloradel in 3734 AT. By the time the accord was revealed to
modosophonts,
it had apparently already been in affect between most of
the Utopese transapients for at least three centuries. Basically by
joining the accord, a transapient promises to conduct no memegeneering
or other covert influencing of Hider clades, except for the purpose of
protecting that particular transapient and eir charges, against that
particular clade. In addition Hider clades are granted certain rights
such as the right to travel through the transapient's territory, and
limited harvest of the Oort clouds in a transapient's territory, again,
as long as these rights do not directly threaten the transapient, or
the transapient's underlings.
In the millennia that has followed, many other transapients have also
joined the accord, including most of the transapients of the
Solar
Dominion, the
Communion of
Worlds and the
Sophic
League. The accord
also has strong membership amongst AIs from the
MPA, the
Formalhaut
Acquisition Society, several zones in the
NoCoZo, and
the
Technorapture
Hypernation. In
9934 Farview decreed that all hyperbrights of the
Red Star
'M'Pire
would join the accord. It is also rumored that some
Diamond
Network and
Solipsist
Panvirtuality AIs have joined limited versions of the
Greensong Accord, which give them greater leeway in just what is
considered defensive measures.
Though it is always hard to find out what the Hiders themselves think,
evidence suggests that few of the Hider clades give the accord any
credence, and most consider it just another trick from the transapients
side.
Indeed, it seems that the Hiders tend to avoid Diamond Network systems
that have signed the accord. Which might actually have been what the
Network planned from the start.
