Let's talk about LaSalle for a little bit. LaSalle is the one who wants to redesign the Fair Chance Act? Give us a quick primer on the Fair Chance Act and why we would want to keep it and why we would want to change it.

That's right. He wants to allow mining and other possible business things to happen in systems that are protected by the Fair Chance Act.

[It's an] initiative that was enacted after the fall of the Messers; it's one of the first ones that was initiated. The dictators had basically terraformed a planet with a developing, evolving species on it that was probably going to achieve sentience. So they terraformed it, which completely destroyed their environment and killed all of them. And in the fallout from that, they were laughing and drinking while they were pointing at the bodies. And footage of that got out, and that's what sparked the revolution that overthrew them. So the new government set up a thing basically saying that if you come across a planet that has a developing species, defined as they are showing aspects of higher thought that might develop, the planet will be sealed off, basically, and protected by the government and military, and no one is allowed to interfere with the species in their development, pro or con. So if they start fighting each other, you let them fight, until they become spacefaring, in which case then we would make contact with them. So they have to get up to that point on their own and then we would reach out to them. But yeah, so LaSalle is basically saying, obviously, you cut off entire planets from strip mining.

Well, and he's saying that it's been applied too broadly. We look at some of the systems that are now Fair Chance systems, and there's systems that are just of scientific interest, that have no life, that have been declared Fair Chance systems. There are systems where the intelligent species, he would argue, some scientists say aren't. And so there's some question there. And the Fair Chance Act has been the sledgehammer of a law to block development. And he wants to take a more refined, careful approach to it.

Yeah. And the Fair Chance Act has been around since the early 2800s, I believe. So like 100, 150 years in the Star Citizen universe. So I believe, a lot like Addison with the AI, he's saying it's time for us to go back and re-examine and update this policy for the modern world, for these maybe new modern technologies that would allow us to maybe go extract resources from places that might have life, [but] may not end up affecting their development. So I think that's part of the angle he's trying to get to, saying, I don't want to get rid of this, but let's just redefine it, let's modernize it.

Yeah, he's trying to present that he is walking a fine line between protecting a planet that only has cellular life that has the Fair Chance Act applied to it, and protecting a planet that has multiple sentient species who may or may not be engaging in warfare. He's trying to present that he doesn't want to strip mine planets with provable proto-sentient or sentient species, but maybe that planet that just has cellular life, why are we protecting it anyway? That is his stance.