Organizational structure

To ensure that all process and decisions are executed orderly, there has to be an organizational structure that is transparent and effective.

a) Discord
A corporation can have its own discord and strong internal community. However it is expected to contribute to the alliance community instead of isolating itself by also being active on the alliance discord and opening the own channels for alliance members. Not all channels have to be open though, just the general ones. The alliance leadership however should have access to all channels except the corporation’s leadership channel. It’s ok to have a leadership channel that can’t be seen.

b) Disciplinary actions
The corporations are responsible for doing disciplinary actions against missteps and problems inside their own corporation. If these problems however affect other members of the SGA it will be a case for a bigger trial.

Should the problem be between one member and another member then the home corporation will take the lead in this case together with the offended member’s home corporation. Should they be unable to resolve this issue, the SGA leadership will take over.

Should the problem be between one member and multiple other SGA members or be public, then an SGA officer or leader will oversee the trial with the offending member’s home corporation having a special stand (might be part of the prosecution or defense, depending on their opinion of the problem).

This should ensure a fair trial for everyone but also call upon the home corporation’s responsibility for its own members.

2.Leadership
The SGA leadership represents the highest authority within the SGA. They represent the SGA, not their home corporation.

a) Membership
They are appointed by the current leadership or the House of Corps with 75% agreement. They can be part of any corporation or mentioned group. They can however not be part of the “House of Corps” and not be a First Officer as the main focus of the leadership is on what’s best for the alliance, while the “House of Corps” represents the needs of the corporations. They can be dethroned by either 75% agreement in Leadership or 75% agreement in “House of Corps”.

This group may never get bigger than 6 people to ensure that they are able to discuss problems and ideas with all members of the group but need to be at least 3 people.

During an active disciplinary action (private or public) against a leader, the other leaders can decide to temporarily remove his rights (especially on discord) with a 50% agreement (excluding the leader in question) to prevent emotional reactions from causing harm.

b) Duties
They bring up new ideas, make the groundwork for new laws, rules and changes which often have to be approved by the “House of Corps” (see more about it in Organizational structure#House of Corps#Duties House_of_Corps|Duties).

They may handle disciplinary actions and oversee them to ensure the right of “Fair trial” for both members and corporations.

c) Rights
Apart from the typical rights that the highest authority implies, the leadership does not have the right to dissolve the “House of Corps” or change the organizational structure without a 75% approval of the “House of Corps”.

They can dethrone a member of the “House of Corps” by a 75% agreement as further explained in HoC|Membership.

They can dethrone a member of the SGA Officers by a 75% agreement and appoint as many Officers as needed by a 75% agreement.

A leader can’t act or decide against the approval of 75% of the leadership and must not conspire with members of the “House of Corps” or officers against other leaders, representatives or other organizational officials.

3.Houseof Corps
The “House of Corps” (HoC) represents the corporations in the alliance.

a) Membership
The HoC consists of one representative from each corporation in the alliance that is a full legal entity (this excludes the restricted legal entities like “bootcamp” that are created for a special purpose and owned by SGA directly). This can typically be the First Officer or one by the First Officer appointed representative of that corporation.

The SGA Leadership can dethrone a member of the HoC by a 75% agreement. In this case the corporation of the dethroned representative has to assign a new representative. The HoC itself can also dethrone one of their members by a 75% agreement with the same consequences. This ensure that representatives are active, friendly and doing their job.

During an active, public disciplinary action against a member of the HoC, his home corporation can decide to appoint a new temporary representative if it was not the Fist Officer of that corp. If the First Officer is the representative, he is expected to temporarily give up his seat to one of his Officers.

b) Duties
The HoC represents the interests of the corporations, ensures that the corporations support each other on a corporation leadership level and oversee the implementation of new decisions (laws, rules, ideas, …) in their own corporation.

Leadership will bring up new ideas, laws and rules which all have to pass approval of 75% of HoC to be valid. This applies to all decisions that have an impact on corporations but not to decisions that only impact the SGA community. Examples of decisions that don’t involve the HoC: membership, disciplinary actions, discord changes (e.g. tags, role-names, channels, …) and similar. Examples of decisions involving HoC approval: corporations joining SGA, changes to the constitution, changes to the Code-Of-Conduct, rule changes or additions, removing of corporations from the SGA and similar. If Leadership and HoC can’t agree on whether a decision needs approval or not, the Founding Fathers shall decide. This will hopefully not be needed often. A decision has to be made within 2 weeks.

The HoC can request law or rule changes from the SGA leadership with a 75% agreement. Leadership then has to provide a concept building the basis for discussions leading to a decision within 2 weeks.

If the deadline can’t be met repeatedly, the HoC and/or leadership may get dissolved by the Founding Fathers as explained in Founding_Fathers|Peacekeeper.

c) Rights
As mentioned in Leaderhip, the HoC can appoint or dethrone any leader by a 75% agreement. This may be needed if a leader gets passive but Leadership doesn’t want to remove him yet or if HoC thinks someone is actually incapable. On the other hand they may appoint a new leader with a 75% agreement if the limit is not yet reached. If the HoC dethrones a leader, they can appoint a new one before the leadership is allowed to fill the open position.

These laws are to ensure an active, supporting, friendly and cooperative organizational structure.

4.Founding Fathers
The Founding Fathers are the creators of the Alliance or played a crucial part in its creation. As such they have some special rights. Only the Founding Fathers who are not part of SGA leadership or HoC have the following rights and duties.

a) Membership
Their membership can’t be removed and their names will be remembered even if they leave Hades Star and the SGA discord. Should they return one day, they may get their rights and duties back with a 66% agreement of the currently active Founding Fathers.

b) Duties
They will observe the “HoC” on discord, but not the leadership. Their role is purely to observe, not to contribute, disturb, question or comment decisions. However the may ask questions to understand the intentions of the decisions to be made and give advice if asked.

Veto
They individually have the right to a “veto” which will make all Founding Fathers part of the discussion and no decision can be made until 66% of the still active Founding Fathers agree or disagree (there have to be at least 3 Founding Fathers active). Given their special role this should provide them with a means to make sure their creation doesn’t develop in the wrong direction. However a unified agreement of 75% of the HoC, 75% of the Leadership and 75% of the SGA Officers can dismiss the “veto”. This is to ensure that the Founding Fathers can’t act against the unified will of the alliance as this could cause the destruction of the alliance.

While a “veto” is active, no new SGA Officers or Leaders can be appointed and no new Corporations accepted into the alliance to prevent the shifting of power. Only minor decisions may be made during an ongoing “veto”.

The Founding Fathers have to have a decision ready within 2 weeks, otherwise their veto will be void. This is to prevent a veto from making the alliance unable to act.

Peacekeeper
In the event of SGA leadership and HoC being in constant disagreement, conflict or war-like state for weeks, the Founding Fathers can summon all First Officers, which will have to appoint a new HoC and new leadership. This may result in leadership being replaced while HoC remains the same as the First Officers may represent their own corporation. Should this not be enough then the Founding Fathers may start a discussion in HoC about removing the corporations causing trouble. In this case the active founding fathers get a vote like any other HoC member. The corporation that is to be removed from the SGA doesn’t get a vote. There has to be 66% agreement to remove a corporation.

5.Officers
SGA Officers support the Leaders in their responsibilities.

a) Membership
They can be appointed by Leadership with a 75% approval. There’s no limit and no corporation restriction. They can also get dethroned by leadership or HoC with a 75% agreement.

During an active disciplinary action against an Officer, the leadership can decide to temporarily remove his rights (especially on discord) with a 50% agreement to prevent emotional reactions from causing harm and further incidents.

b) Duties
They might get special assignments, e.g. leading a disciplinary action against someone, organizing contests and similar.

They are also moderators in the SGA channels upholding the Code-Of-Conduct and initiating disciplinary actions if needed.

They can be approached with questions, doubts, problems, conflicts and similar. They will handle these with the appropriate confidentiality and bring it up to the SGA leadership if necessary.

Leadership might ask the Officers for advice in difficult decisions but are not required to do so.

c) Rights
The Officers can initiate disciplinary actions against someone.