Fiction:Valian Empire/BioLimAct

"Oh yes, I heard one of them swallowed a shuttle whole on one of Serina's lakes. They've been cleaning bones off their beaches for months."

- Anonymous Volanti

The Biological Creation Limit Act (or Act 0756.088) was an edict drafted by the Valian Imperial Council and proclaimed by Emperor Hilam II in 67,097 AF, aimed to establish basic guidelines related to bio-engineering within the Rohse galaxy. It outlawed the creation of any form of sentient life and prohibited bio-engineering experiments in select worlds in the Centre- primarily those claimed as homeworlds by Valian scirits. The Act preceded a much more extensive related piece of legislation, theRose Protocol: a directive ordering that all life on Volanti-inhabited planets be replaced with bio=engineered, Strand-derived ecosystems.

The Act was the first official law regarding biological engineering in Rohse; it was spearheaded by a delegation of representatives from planet Serina, who urged the Diet to address the situation after a particularly destructive infestation of Karia'h'nki starfish.