The Tri-City Alliance
The Preamble
This Tri-City Alliance represents the desires and will of the people of Bravado, Bastion of the New Dawn, and Drywater to convene in good faith and with solemn purpose, do hereby declare our shared intent to bring lasting peace and mutual prosperity to our peoples.
Mindful of the long and painful conflict of the War of Antlers, and the War Against the San Saba Board, that has divided our settlements—of the lives lost, the homes shattered, and the bonds of kinship severed—we recognize that the cost of war weighs heavily upon all. No settlement has emerged unscathed, and no victory has brought true solace.
In the face of such hardship, and guided by the memory of what was lost and the desire to move forward in peace, we come together to establish a shared commitment to safety, cooperation, and the pursuit of justice through dialogue rather than arms.
This treaty stands as a testament to our shared resolve to end hostilities, establish a foundation for trust, and build a future defined not by fear and rivalry, but by collaboration, healing, and enduring stability.
May this accord mark not merely the cessation of hostilities, but the beginning of a new chapter—where peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of shared purpose and hope.
In this endeavor, the Justices of Sin have offered to stand as a neutral party, committed to not one single settlement, but to the ideal of justice and civilization for the sake of safety and stability in the wastes. They stand not as an authority or sovereign power over any settlement, but as an arbiter of the Treaty, acting as oversight by request of the signees, who agree to hold the Justices of Sin verdicts as fair and neutral in order to better hold accountable each settlement to the agreed upon conditions of peace and cooperation within the Tri-City Alliance.
2. Treaty Rules
Each settlement signed to this treaty acknowledges the rights and independence of the other signing parties, and the named representatives of leadership within this treaty.
Each accorded party acknowledges the self governance of the other, the right of each town to choose their faith, the sanctity of their borders and citizens, and the right for their own self-governance and to decide their own laws and traditions.
Any individual who primarily resides or travels within an accorded settlement is considered a citizen of that settlement for the purposes of this treaty, its enforcement and due process.
All accords parties recognize Unnecessary death feeds the Mortis, and endangers the whole. All accorded parties recognize, denounce, and agree to appropriately punish the crime of Murder, as defined as the intentional and malicious loss or theft of infection.
The trial and punishment shall be overseen by the Justices of Sin in compliance with the settlements laws in which the murder occurred.
Each accorded party how have signed this treaty acknowledge it as binding.
2. Treaty Representatives & Changes
The names listed below shall be considered representatives of each town’s leadership.
Each settlement must enter at least two (2) names to act in this manner, but no more than five (5) representatives from each settlement will be recognized.
These representatives are responsible for communicating their respective settlements’ needs and desires in terms of this treaty and interactions with the settlements included in this agreement.
Each settlement may change the appropriate representatives of their own settlement at any time by in accordance with their settlements procedures.
This list must be submitted to the Justices of Sin 30 days before any scheduled treaty discussion. The new representatives will be considered instated at the following trade. The deadline is waved in cases of Emergency or lack of representative attendance.
The Justices of Sin are required to inform the other settlements on the change immediately.
In order to facilitate communication between settlements of the Tri-City Alliance, accorded peaceful travel between settlements by representatives listed below or by representative approved third-party couriers will not be prohibited or infringed. Protected travel will have representatives or vessels display the flag of both their settlement and that of the settlement they are traveling towards, when possible.
The following representatives’ words and actions are empowered by their settlements, to make decisions that reflect the will of the people of their settlement.
Bastion
General Mustang
Master Sergeant Mykel Stafford, Devotee of Discipline
Chaplain Damocles, Devotee of Hope
Drywater
Guillotine
Gil
Bravado
Bunni
Qrow
Firefly
Pocket (Alternate)
3. Treaty Changes
This agreement must be re-ratified each year in the Month of May, during the Annual meeting Summit.
Treaty ratification with individually approved concessions and reparations will be submitted to each settlement’s ambassadors by the end of the Reveille.
Amendments to the treaty may only be made in the presence of recognized representatives from all accorded parties per each settlements procedure unless otherwise outlined within this document.
Any accorded party may request an additional Treaty Summit by submitting the request to the Justices of Sin with 30 days notice. This request must include a summary of the changes desired and must be posted publicly in all settlements. Justices of Sin may deny the request if deemed frivolous or if requests are made too often.
Settlements have the right to appeal and should two settlements agree, the summit is authorized.
4. Dispute Resolution
The accorded parties of this treaty agree to abide by the following processes should a dispute arise between them and private diplomatic solutions have failed.. Ruling must be respected by all parties. If the ruling is not, it is considered a violation of the treaty.
Definition of Neutral Party - If a dispute arises, any involved parties must petition the The Justices of Sin/Arbiters of Bond for a hearing, in which each side will present its case for a decision to be made by the Justices of Sin/Arbiters of Bond as an impartial judicial power.
Notice of Disputes to the Justices of Sin or Arbiters of Bond may be submitted via third-party Postwalker courier, care of:
Bravado - General Store Post Office
Bastion - North Line Post Office
Drywater - Boatel And Town Hall Post Office
5. Extradition & Punishment
The accorded parties of this treaty agree to abide by the following processes should a suspected or convicted criminal flee the law of one settlement into another accorded settlement.
Any individual who commits a crime within the borders of an accorded settlement, by that settlement's laws, shall be remanded to the criminal’s settlement of residence for judgment by the aggrieved settlements laws, if that settlement is an accorded party.
“Settlement of Residence” is defined as the settlement the criminal spends the most time in, among the three accorded settlements, even if the criminal does not hold official citizenship to that settlement.
The Justices of Sin within each settlement shall be informed and shall act as an overseeing party to the investigation, trial, and sentencing.
Lawkeepers in the aggrieved settlement will cooperate with the criminal’s local lawkeepers in providing evidence and any applicable investigatory information.
Sentences involving permanent exile from a settlement of residence will include safe passage and remanding the criminal to a safe location considered neutral territory to all settlements, with a supply of food and water for three days. A safe location is defined as a place not immediately hostile to survival, such as irradiated hot zones or otherwise inhospitable conditions.
Any involved accorded settlement may file appeal to the Justices of Sin/Arbiters of Bond for a new trial performed by the Justices of Sin/Arbiter’s of Bond before the punishment has been carried out if the punishment is deemed either too extreme, or too lax for the crime committed.
The verdict of the appeal may not be appealed further.
6. Enforcement
Accorded settlements recognize there is a difference of scale between individual residents violating portions of this agreement, and the accorded settlements violating the treaty.
This section outlines and defines enforcement and penalties of treaty violations for settlements, or larger groups within the accorded settlements, and does not reflect individual crimes, unless those crimes are repeated, and/or result in a disproportionate amount of harm befalling an accorded settlement beyond that of any individual citizen.
Herein, each accorded settlement agrees to consider a Breach of this treaty as a violation of their own laws and traditions, of the highest caliber.
Each settlement agrees to have a Justice of Sin appointed to them as the neutral party in overseeing the treaty agreements.
Each settlement agrees to severe penalties for its groups, sub-factions, faiths, or crews for intentional violation of treaty provisions, outlined below.
Bastion: Court Martial with unpreventable infection loss
Drywater: Execution with unpreventable infection loss
Bravado: Execution with unpreventable infection loss
Each accorded settlement retains authority to punish these crimes, and criminals should be rendered back to that settlements law persons.
In instances of an action or lack of action made by one accorded settlement causes harm to befall one or more of the others, the aggrieved parties must prove to the Justices of Sin that the accused settlement acted, or neglected to act, with the knowledge that in doing so, harm would befall another accorded settlement.
It is not considered a violation of the treaty if the settlement made an earnest and good faith effort, but FAILED to prevent harm from befalling another accorded settlement. This assessment is made by the Justices of Sin.
Treaty violations apply only after the treaty is ratified.
7. PENALTIES
When the treaty has been violated either by a recognized group within an accorded settlement, or by the settlement itself, the following penalties will be assessed, based on the nature of the violation.
For recognized groups, this is a penalty on the accorded settlement in addition to the above outlined punishments in Section 6.5.
Summary of Marks
First time violation: A First Mark shall be applied to the offending Settlement.
This Mark may be absolved by remitting payment or services equivalent to the total damages to the aggrieved settlement. For example: The value of the goods on a ransacked trade caravan, or an equivalent value of replacement goods.
If the loss cannot be quantified in brass, a service of equivalent intangible value shall be rendered, as requested by the aggrieved party, and approved by the Justices of Sin.
Additional Offense: A Second Mark and Debt of Service
If the initial Mark remains unresolved, A Second Mark will be applied. In addition to the original payment, the offending Settlement must offer Significant Aid or Recompense to address the breach of the Treaty.
Such aid and recompense will be approved as appropriate by the Justices of Sin.
A settlement may petition the Justices of Sin to assess a Second Mark if an excess of First Marks have been reached, even if they were all previously resolved.
Final Mark: Dissolution
These corrective actions represent the full extent of acceptable measures. Any further deviation beyond these steps will result in the dissolution of the Treaty between the offending settlement and the aggrieved settlement.
If this step is reached, a Treaty Summit must be called to bear witness of the dissolution, and offer any other accorded settlements the opportunity to dissolve their treaty with the offending settlement if so desired.
Such a Summit must be attended by representatives of every accorded settlement, and a neutral party, which can be represented by the Justices of Sin, or the Arbiters of Bond.
8. Collective Defense
Each settlement agrees to aid the accorded parties of this treaty against the threats of the wasteland upon declaration of emergency, including but not limited to organized raider activity, zombie stampede, necrological crisis, critter infestation, or other organized Lineage threat.
The settlements agree that an armed attack against one or more of them shall be considered an attack against them all. Consequently, they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defense, will assist the settlements so attacked.
Upon the invocation of Section 1, each settlement shall take, individually and in concert with the other Alliance members, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the San Saba and the boundaries of the Tri-City Alliance.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Justices of Sin or Arbiters of Bond. Such measures shall be terminated when the Alliance has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain peace and security.
This Article does not obligate any settlement to participate in offensive military actions or interventions that have not been preceded by an external armed attack on an alliance member’s sovereign territory.
Unless otherwise agreed upon in writing for specific joint operations, each settlement shall be solely responsible for the costs associated with the recruitment, training, equipment, and maintenance of its own military and security forces.
In the event that this Treaty is invoked under article 8, section 1, each settlement shall bear the costs of deploying and sustaining its own forces, including but not limited to transport, logistics, fuel, and personnel salaries, for the duration of the collective defense action.
Failure to participate in collective defense as outlined above counts as a mark against the defaulting settlement.
This contract for collective defense is able to be updated and renewed yearly during the annual treaty summit in May.
9. Concessions and Reparations
The accorded settlements recognize the shared history of conflict and collateral damage incurred in wars fought as allies and as enemies. They recognize the material cost and the trust lost in these conflicts.
They further recognize that the relationships between each other must be set firm in the interest of their future prosperity. All accorded settlements agree to provide the outlined concessions and reparations, and that the outlined concessions and reparations are sufficient to establish good faith and rapport between each other, and agree to cease any form of retaliatory hostilities.
Each settlement will submit a list of concessions and required reparations for actions taken in the last year during the annual Treaty Summit.
Failure to commit measurable effort, as determined by a neutral party, within the following calendar year towards these concessions will be considered a mark against the offending settlement, per article 7.
For the duration of PHW 10, the accorded settlements agree to the following concessions:
Bravado:
Will continue to report violations of the treaty in a timely manner to affected parties, via the accorded channels.
Will establish a Bastion Embassy within the Bravado Grave Annex, to be accorded Bastion territory within the boundaries of the embassy. Travel to and from said embassy will be considered protected travel for representatives of the Tri-City Alliance.
Will acknowledge the sole authority of Bastion for the recruitment, training, equipment, and maintenance of its own military and security forces known as the Peacekeepers, and the operation of the fortress known as Pride’s Hold.
Drywater:
As a measure of repayment for services rendered during the Battle of Drywater, Junkerpunk vessels will acknowledge the inviolability of Peacekeeper vessels from piracy and predation for a duration of one year. Approved vessels will be given sanctuary and safe passage within Drywater territory and harbors. Such vessels will fly the flag of both settlements and said protected passage will not be exploited beyond reasonable consideration. Further protected rights will be renegotiated at the end of the treaty term in May.
Will allow establishment and protection of a Temple of the Fallow Hope within city limits of Drywater, funded and operated by the Bastion ministry.
Will officially commit that they will not harbor or aid the Rook. Will complete this public announcement before the end of Sept-embers.
Salvage rights will be awarded to settlement claimed vessels established to have been lost during the Battle of Drywater, as determined by an accorded neutral party. Cost and effort of recouping said salvage will be provided by the salvaging party.
Bastion:
Will establish a Bravado Embassy within the lower city of Bastion, to be accorded Bravado territory within the boundaries of the embassy. Location will be mutually approved by both Bastion and Bravado representatives. Travel to and from said embassy will be considered protected travel for representatives of the Tri-City Alliance.
Will provide Airship passage for authorized travel into Bastion from the North Line Station, at no cost for treaty representatives or post walkers. Cloudskipper vessels will be made ready, but will remain subject to quarantine protocol upon arrival in the lower city.