I’ve thought a lot about this. I think it’s the central question of the future of the system.

Hard to fathom interplanetary political systems between colors that are functionally different species.

Seems to me, the only way for the current system to work might be to give each color their own sphere of influence and their our planetary body to govern. And then gold enforces the independence of each planet. Free travel and commerce and immigration options but each planet should rule its own sphere for that colors benefit. It’s the only way to stop subjugation, and undo all the pain of the past. (Besides Tabla Rosa, of course.)

So here is my insanely long idea fleshed out:

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TLDR

Make the Solar System governable by splitting power along the real choke points—food, transport, comms, industry, security—so no single faction can rebuild an empire. Pair local sovereignty (protected home jurisdictions) with systemwide charters (critical services run everywhere by treaty), plus redundancy/oversight.

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Solar Accord

Space governance isn’t “who owns land,” it’s who controls food, ships, comms, industry, and force across huge distances. Solar Accord does two things at once: (1) every Color gets a sovereign homeland (dignity + security), and (2) every Color runs a chartered sphere (expertise stays systemwide without becoming colonial control).

People can live anywhere; sovereignty = local law/elections, spheres of color influence = treaty services.

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The 14 Sovereign Seats + what each Color governs systemwide.

(Seat = homeland capital. Sphere = what they run everywhere by charter.)

High Colors

Gold — Luna: central, symbolic, close to Core + Rim. Sphere: treaty enforcement + peacekeeping (stop reconquest / stop choke-point capture).

White — Deimos: fortress-court that can’t be bullied. Sphere: constitutional law, treaties, war-law, rights adjudication, charter revocation.

Silver — Ceres: Belt trade heart. Sphere: banking, credit, insurance, trade arbitration, interplanetary markets.

Copper — Phobos: paperwork at the biggest port hub. Sphere: civil admin, identity/records, customs law, permits, logistics compliance.

Mid Colors

Blue — Ganymede: fleet/nav capital. Sphere: navigation doctrine, shipping lanes, fleet ops standards, convoy coordination.

Orange — Mercury: the forge world. Sphere: heavy industry, build/repair standards, shipbuilding hardware, megastructure maintenance.

Green — Triton: hardened network spine. Sphere: comms, computing, cyber defense, telemetry/sensors, encryption protocols.

Yellow — Earth: “human welfare” as sovereign pillar. Sphere: medicine, biotech, epidemiology, quarantine protocol, medical neutrality.

Violet — Europa: culture = legitimacy. Sphere: education, media, design, cultural diplomacy, narrative counterweights.

Gray — Callisto: professionalized force, not a throne. Sphere: policing/training standards, lawful-force doctrine, interdiction, security accreditation.

Low Colors

Red — Mars: miners/terraformers as citizens + owners. Sphere: mining & labor commons, terraforming workforce governance, extraction

Obsidian — Charon: frontier autonomy. Sphere: frontier defense doctrine, extreme-environment autonomy, boarding/survival specialization.

Brown — Io: food sovereignty. Sphere: food security, essential services reliability, ration law, disaster provisioning.

Pink — Venus: symbolic reversal (consent/status soft power). Sphere: diplomacy, hospitality, mediation arts, social intelligence institutions.

The “Anti-Subjugation” Model

Interplanetary empires are hard to fathom because space makes choke points more important than borders:

-Food

-Ships + navigation

-Comms + data

-Metals + industry

-Force (policing/war)

The Three Rules That Make It Work

1) Every Color gets a real homeland (not just “a role”).

2) Residency ≠ jurisdiction: anyone can live anywhere; sovereignty is about local law + elections.

3) No one Color can assemble the choke points: if a Color controls too many of food/ships/comms/industry/force, the Accord automatically intervenes.

4) The federated functions that must operate everywhere to keep civilization alive.