LEX ASTRA ACADEMY SO 225 / Negotiation and inter-organizational assistance Lex Astra · School of Law & Public Affairs Teaching edition 2956.3 / Tabletop ———————————————————————————————————————————————— LEARNER WORKSHEET For representatives practising inter-organizational assistance terms. This is a private working copy. Downloading submits nothing and records no completion. Use exercise identifiers, not private player information. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— SESSION DETAILS Learner identifier: ____________________________________________________________ Instructor / assessor: ____________________________________________________________ Session date / agreed role or variant: ____________________________________________________________ Vessel, configuration and equipment: ____________________________________________________________ LIVE build / capability test date / tested by (if practical): ____________________________________________________________ Stop signal / recovery contact / communication arrangement: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— PURPOSE Negotiate an assistance arrangement that states what each party can actually provide and decide. COURSE CONTEXT This is a fresh practice variant of Case SO–6. It preserves the central question: accepting escort does not by itself give the escort authority over destination or cargo. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— ENTRY Complete: SO 120 Equipment: Two negotiating teams with the bounded case mandates. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— CASE: An escort offered on conditions 1. Receiving has accepted Destination A for the relief load. 2. A partner offers escort but asks to select Destination B and retain cargo for inspection. 3. Both teams can negotiate exercise terms; neither can bind the other’s wider organization. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND GAME SKILLS Joint operations agreements that crews can execute Practical instruction revision 1 / 9 October 2026 Agree shared game access Before committing partner crews, determine who owns and shares the contract, who can enter each ship and who controls cargo or medical equipment. Test the intended party and mission arrangement with a small group. A written partnership does not automatically share mission credit, inventory access or control of a vessel. Specify the transfer boundary For transport, identify the pickup point, usable seats or beds, destination and receiving acknowledgement. For cargo, identify the consignment, ownership and whether the task ends at unloading, storage or sale. State how any player-to-player payment will be confirmed; do not describe an ordinary transfer as an escrow service the game has not provided. Agree interruption and withdrawal Name the rally point, communications fallback and owner of accepted passengers or cargo if one group leaves the session. Renegotiate a changed destination before moving shared assets. A partner’s disconnect should trigger the agreed reduced plan rather than silently placing their crew under a new command arrangement. PRACTICAL DRILL Negotiate a one-sortie transport or cargo agreement with another group, demonstrate the access arrangement, then amend the terms after one partner’s ship becomes unavailable. OBSERVED-SKILL CHECKS Contract, ship and asset access are individually confirmed. My action / observed result / assistance / evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ Live, simulated or unobserved: ____________________________________________________________ Completion and payment conditions describe observable events. My action / observed result / assistance / evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ Live, simulated or unobserved: ____________________________________________________________ Withdrawal preserves an accepted recovery owner for people and cargo. My action / observed result / assistance / evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ Live, simulated or unobserved: ____________________________________________________________ Apply the technical checks in the agreed role. Discussion and simulation do not certify live handling; Crew Support evidence does not confer Pilot qualification. GAME REFERENCES The linked pages were read for this revision. Community references mix release eras; each source note identifies what is used and what is excluded. Technical explanations below are an Academy synthesis, and drills and performance checks are Academy-designed. Before practice, compare the named actions with the installed LIVE build and actual equipment. Bind actions by name rather than copying old default keys. Research is not an in-game validation. Star Citizen Wiki — Defend Occupants https://starcitizen.tools/Defend_Occupants A specific lawful bunker mission, shared access, allied NPCs and friendly-fire consequences. Other contracts have different conditions. Squad drills below are Academy teaching methods, not claimed game rules. Star Citizen Wiki — Cargo https://starcitizen.tools/Cargo SCU, container geometry, grids and ownership. The page also contains obsolete automatic-loading descriptions and future design intentions; these are not instructions for the present cargo interface. Star Citizen Wiki — Medical https://starcitizen.tools/Medical Body-part injuries, Hemozal, symptom medication, BDL, bed tiers and regeneration. Ship tables, resource costs and ranges change; inspect the actual bed and tool. Official LIVE release check: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/patch-notes ———————————————————————————————————————————————— METHOD 1: Exchange mandates first Ask what each representative may commit and what needs further approval. Separate a resource contribution from authority over its crew. Cooperation does not automatically transfer command. A mandate has both a subject and a limit. A representative authorised to offer transport may not be authorised to accept liability or place its crew under another commander. Ask each party to distinguish what it can agree now from what needs referral, and record those limits before bargaining over quantities. Practise: Exchange written limits before negotiating resources. Ready when: Both parties state the decisions they can make and those they must refer. My action and observed result: ____________________________________________________________ Evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— METHOD 2: Write terms crews can use Specify the contributed resource, contact, task, reporting method and withdrawal condition. Agree how a disagreement will be referred. Friendly intent is useful, but it will not tell a crew what to do when the promised vessel is unavailable. Draft obligations in operational language: who provides what, where, under which conditions and until when. Include how changes become effective and how a party withdraws without abandoning accepted responsibilities. Clear terms protect cooperation by reducing the need to interpret goodwill during a disrupted movement. Practise: Draft the operational terms and withdrawal clause. Ready when: The terms identify contributions, responsibility and a usable stop or withdrawal procedure. My action and observed result: ____________________________________________________________ Evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— METHOD 3: Record the points not agreed Read the final terms back to both parties. List unresolved liability, resource or command questions separately and reduce the operation’s scope where needed. Do not turn silence into acceptance by putting a hopeful sentence in the final copy. Read the agreement from the viewpoint of the crew who did not attend the negotiation. Can they identify the current contact, task and stopping condition without reconstructing the discussion? Mark unresolved clauses as unresolved and identify which work cannot begin until they are settled. A signature cannot make an ambiguous instruction usable. Practise: Issue agreed terms and an open-issues list. Ready when: No unresolved point is represented as an accepted commitment. My action and observed result: ____________________________________________________________ Evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— WORKED DECISION The two organisations agree one transport and common communications, but not cargo liability. The exercise agreement limits the movement until that question is settled. 1. Separate the useful escort offer from the requested destination and custody powers. Compare each with the team mandates. 2. Counterpropose escort on the accepted route, a common contact procedure and an explicit right to withdraw. Refer the inspection and custody request rather than silently accepting it. 3. Record only the agreed terms. If the partner requires powers outside the mandate, leave the agreement unsigned and explain the resulting movement limit. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— YOUR EXERCISE Negotiate a short counterproposal, then issue agreed terms and unresolved points. A supported non-agreement is an acceptable result. WHAT CHANGES The partner cannot commit the requested vessel. My decision and reason: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— YOUR WORKING RECORD Party / mandate / resource offered / retained command ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Route / custody / communications / withdrawal terms ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Accepted terms / unresolved points / required approval ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— CHECK YOUR REASONING The partner contributes a ship. Does the receiving organisation now command its crew? My answer before consulting the explanation: ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— EVIDENCE TO KEEP An exercise agreement, resource list and unresolved-terms record. Criterion 1: Both parties state the decisions they can make and those they must refer. Individual evidence / finding / assessor's reason: ____________________________________________________________ Criterion 2: The terms identify contributions, responsibility and a usable stop or withdrawal procedure. Individual evidence / finding / assessor's reason: ____________________________________________________________ Criterion 3: No unresolved point is represented as an accepted commitment. Individual evidence / finding / assessor's reason: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— FINDINGS AND NEXT ATTEMPT Demonstrated: observed work meets the criterion. Further practice required: an observed gap needs a specific practice task. Interrupted: conditions prevented valid assessment; not a failure. Not assessed: enough evidence has not yet been collected. All three criteria need individual evidence. A team result or quiz cannot replace an unobserved practical. Practice variant for a fresh attempt: Remove the custody demand but withdraw one escort resource. Require a revised scope without inventing new authority. My next practice task: ____________________________________________________________ Review contact: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— COMPARE AFTER ANSWERING Not unless a valid agreement delegates that authority. State the contribution, the retained command and the decisions requiring coordination. Do not infer a command transfer from cooperation. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— SOURCE AND EDITION Case SO–6: an escort offered on conditions /academy/archives/assistance-case Law & Public Affairs case issued by CAPT Soren Achterberg in 2956. The course variants examine authority, evidence and commitments; a historical source informs the analysis but does not supply an unstated current delegation. The lessons are current Academy teaching, not newly discovered historical records. Lex Astra opened in 2891. Historical sources keep their original issuer and date; all case callsigns, quantities, times and conditions are supplied for practice. Course text revised 8 October 2026; fictional teaching edition 2956.3. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES Instruction revised 9 October 2026. Lex Astra cases supply the teaching situations. Professional references inform communication, decision-making and instructional design; they do not confer external qualifications. LIVE capabilities remain subject to the recorded session check. Cedefop · observable learning outcomes https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/publications/4209 Carnegie Mellon · objective / assessment alignment https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/designteach/design/learningobjectives.html ———————————————————————————————————————————————— INSTRUCTOR CHECK Try the exercise with the ship and equipment you will use. Brief station assignments, callsigns, channel and recovery point. Explain the command “Stop exercise” before starting. If a bug prevents completion, repeat the affected task when it works. Ask before recording the session; use player handles in your notes. Review rules: /academy/archives/academy-ordinance Teaching basis: /academy/framework#research