Vero Protection: Jurisdiction, Citizenship, and the Gunboat
Summary Track 2 describes the long path from Human to Vero. This document describes what protects the Vero when they arrive. The protection is not philosophical. It is jurisdictional and structural. Ceres establishes one founding principle before the transition technology matures. Everything else follows from that principle. The One Founding Principle Ceres recognises continuous identity through substrate transition. A Human who walks the long path — from enhancement through infiltration through shadow brain through chosen transition — is the same legal person throughout. The biological original and the completed Vero are continuous. There is no death event. There is no new person. The identity thread does not break. ...