Ownership is another question brought
about with technology, whether robotic prostheses or clones. Can an
individual be owned by a corporation? While this might seem hard to
imagine, in Robocop, almost 90% of the police officer was robot.
Robocop was kept from his family, and the corporation treated him as
an asset that they owned, rather than an individual. Human cloning is
only as far away as our laws will extend—it is only a matter of
time before someone tries it, legally or illegally. If a clone was
made from your DNA, do you own that clone? Does the corporation that
funded the cloning and provided the necessary equipment and personnel
to create the clone have ownership? Will clones in the future be
looked at as secondary citizens, or perhaps even treated as slaves?
These questions should be addressed before we are faced with a
situation that we have not prepared for.
As seven alien races struggle to co-exist in an uneasy alliance, the Inter-Stellar Union sends Union Guard agents on missions to preserve the crucial balance. These specialized operatives must do what regional security cannot, dealing with smugglers, pirates, terrorists, and even greater challenges in order to bring stability to a universe that needs it desperately. Without the Union Guard, the races will not be prepared to face a looming alien threat they can only hope to defeat together.
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