Ronnie had no intention of letting anyone know that she’d acknowledged a sovereign government on Sask-E. Legal would probably have a meltdown about how she’d threatened its status as a privately owned planet. While technically they might be right, Ronnie knew it wasn’t a realistic threat. In a thousand years, Spider would be overrun by settlers and development companies. The H. archaeans would scatter to new cities, get jobs, die off, and forget all about their fucking joke of a treaty.