Mercer Charter

Mercer Charter

Mercer Charter sits at HIP 57146, profile C410300-C: populated, unregistered, uncharted. The system belongs to Solaris Federation. That fact does not wobble because the route crosses somebody else's customs desk. A Federation charter court wants a narrow treaty recognizing judgments, births, and emergency warrants without surrendering its elected local bench.

The route is Khesret → Ee'la → Oath Post → Harrow Belt → Mercer Charter. Local authority grows from Solaris Federation law and history; Concord's role begins at gate registry and stops well short of casually owning the people beyond it. The charter judges will accept reciprocal process and outside observers, but not replacement by a Concord circuit court. A registry counsel keeps slipping supremacy language back into the draft.

The system's playable center is Limited Recognition Court. dry fan air, paper tabs, coffee scorched on a warming plate, and a public gallery that whispers whenever the draft changes. This is a place where signatures carry consequences. Convene an open hearing, separate portable recognition from sovereign control, and return a witnessed limited-recognition instrument both benches can enforce.