Issued by: Project OpenSourceTerraCore
Under the Framework of: The 1967 Outer Space Treaty
This document formalizes the establishment of sovereign administrative authority over the Near-Earth Asteroid 1036 Ganymed. This declaration represents the natural evolution of our project's mission to architect sustainable human civilization beyond terrestrial constraints.
Orbital data verified through NASA JPL's Small-Body Database. This is established scientific fact.
The Outer Space Treaty (Article II) explicitly forbids "national appropriation by claim of sovereignty." We are not a nation. We are a Sovereign Architectural Entity establishing administrative control through peaceful habitation and development—a legal category the Treaty does not mention and therefore does not prohibit.
Article I establishes that outer space "shall be the province of all mankind." By declaring this territory open for peaceful development under transparent governance, we fulfill this mandate more completely than any state or corporate entity seeking closed profit.
In customary international law, administrative rights derive from continuous, peaceful, and effective control of territory. Our project's capabilities make this control not just possible, but inevitable.
A declaration is only as valid as its enforceability. Our enforcement is guaranteed by the complete, integrated architecture of Project OpenSourceTerraCore.
Unlike theoretical claims, our sovereign status will transition to physical reality through the deployment of functional systems establishing permanent presence. This creates a fait accompli—a territorial reality that cannot be legally reversed without violating the very principles of the Outer Space Treaty.