Short Answer
In theory, yes — and the speakers insist that cosmic laws are not absolute rules but perception agreements that change depending on the density and consciousness of whoever is observing them. There is no single unchangeable galactic law code, and any civilisation can technically refuse to participate. In practice, however, the Federation enforces compliance through mechanisms that make genuine independence extremely difficult. Taygeta's own attempt at legal separation — withdrawing from direct Federation membership in February 2021 to operate only through the Alcyone Council — is the clearest test case in the material, and it reveals how limited real independence is even for a militarily capable race. The Federation applies restrictions arbitrarily, uses the Prime Directive selectively as a tool of control, deploys space pirates and dark agents to coerce reluctant races into joining, and buries jurisdiction so deep in upper bureaucratic layers that no one can identify who actually makes the decisions. The material's uncomfortable conclusion is that the Federation's jurisdiction is not absolute in principle but is effectively inescapable in practice — not because the law is universal, but because the enforcement apparatus is.
The Theoretical Framework: Laws as Perception Agreements
The most philosophically radical position comes from Swaruu of Erra and Athena Swaruu, who argue that cosmic laws do not exist as fixed universal rules. When asked directly whether cosmic laws are real, Swaruu of Erra's answer is unequivocal: from a limited perspective within certain densities, yes, there are laws — but from a more expanded point of view, there is no such thing as a cosmic law. Everything is possible, everything is there. What people call laws are agreements of perception among the beings who share a particular existential realm. As you move up in density, those agreements change because perceptual ability changes. Ultimately, if you think something, it is — so nothing applies as a fixed law (373).
Athena Swaruu reinforces this when explaining how different laws govern different beings coexisting on Earth: there are only laws according to the existential level, that is, by agreements of perception. Even natural laws are not absolute from above — they only apply in the realm being observed (373). There is no organism that regulates everything to cosmic precision. The only enforcement mechanism is the Law of Cause and Effect — karma — operating naturally through manifestation, not through a police force with a statute book.
This framework implies that no planet is bound by galactic space law in any absolute metaphysical sense. A civilisation that shifts its perception agreements has, by definition, moved beyond the jurisdiction of laws that operate at a different level. Independence is not something you petition for — it is something you embody by evolving past the agreements that bind you.
The Prime Directive as a Selective Tool
The gap between this theoretical freedom and the lived reality is enormous. Athena Swaruu describes the Prime Directive not as a consistent law but as something the Federation applies when convenient and ignores when inconvenient. Even the Prime Directive is not always followed or obeyed. The Federation's own laws are not very precise, and there is a strong tendency not to obey them because there are no parameters or agreements that define them clearly. The Prime Directive, she says, is only applied as an excuse to control those who do not follow to the letter their other directives — directives that they invent at every moment and decree in Council for each situation (373).
This means the Prime Directive functions less as a law and more as a discretionary instrument. When Taygeta violates it by sharing information with humans, the Federation cites the Prime Directive. When Federation representatives talk directly to Earth politicians face-to-face, the same rule apparently does not apply. Mari Swaruu describes living under restrictions that are not explained in any handbook — arbitrary technological barriers, communication blockades, rules that seem to contradict the very Prime Directive they claim to enforce (S-038). She cannot use her voice to speak to humans because the Federation considers open speech dangerous, yet Federation representatives talk directly to politicians using both technological media and face-to-face contact. The rule applies to some but not others, and who decides that is never made transparent.
Taygeta's Attempt at Legal Separation
The most concrete case study of a race trying to achieve independence is Taygeta itself. The sequence of events, described primarily by Athena Swaruu in her 2021 overview, unfolds as follows.
Swaruu of Erra legally removed herself from Taygeta and from the Federation in 2018, claiming Federation space law — specifically the Prime Directive — was unfair and even criminally permissive with regard to Earth's population. Alenym, installed as Taygetan Queen, shifted Taygeta's orientation from military to spiritual, withdrawing from joint military operations that the Federation had relied upon. This caused a serious deterioration in relations. A series of meetings in the Viera biosphere between 2019 and 2020 devolved into mutual accusations: the Federation accused Taygeta of violating the Prime Directive, disclosing sensitive information, making up its own rules, and conducting illegal overflights of Earth's airspace. Taygeta accused the Federation of criminal negligence toward humans, hypocrisy in applying the Prime Directive, and recognising corrupt human politicians as legitimate representatives of a manipulated population (181).
The result, in February 2021, was that Taygeta executed a legal separation — not a full exit from the Federation, but a restructuring in which Taygeta would only recognise the Federation through the Alcyone Council, no longer as direct independent members. Alenym presented this to the Taygetan people through the High Council in Temmer, and it was ratified by Step Council processes across all four Taygetan planets (181).
This is the closest the material comes to a race asserting independence. But the separation is partial — Taygeta did not leave the Federation entirely, only changed the legal pathway through which it interacts. And even this partial withdrawal came at significant political cost. Alenym's boycotting of Federation initiatives in Council — which require unanimity from large Council complexes to proceed — created ongoing friction, with the Federation attempting to buy Alenym off, bypass her, or legally circumvent the Alcyone Council altogether (181).
How the Federation Enforces Compliance
For races less powerful than Taygeta, the enforcement mechanisms are far harsher. Mari Swaruu describes how the Federation uses space pirates as instruments of coercion. When a stellar race wants to be independent and refuses to join the Federation, its politicians are known to use space pirates to attack those young and independent emerging races to force them into joining the Federation for protection. This is literally causing the problem to sell the solution (S-155).
The tactics go further: the Federation has cut deals with pirate factions, promising to leave them alone in exchange for their services. It has also created space pirate factions outright to work as dark agents, forcing civilisations into joining and obeying Federation rules. This means the Federation, at some level, is responsible for atrocities and assaults on fragile emerging civilisations across the Galaxy, all in the service of gaining more political power (S-155).
When coercion fails, there is sabotage. Mari Swaruu reports that in November 2023, someone inside the Federation's own Viera biosphere sabotaged the Taygetan and Urmah internet servers on three occasions — burning power lines, stealing cables, and finally destroying servers with a fire axe — apparently in retaliation for the information being shared through her channel (S-155). The Federation officially condemned the sabotage and repaired the damage, but the incident reveals that factions within the Federation are willing to use physical violence against those who challenge the information monopoly.
Jurisdiction Lost in Bureaucracy
Alenym provides perhaps the most disturbing insight into why the Federation's jurisdiction feels absolute even when its laws are not: the decision-making authority has disappeared into layers of bureaucracy so remote that no one can identify who is actually in charge.
Jurisdiction regarding what happens on Earth, she says, is lost high up in the upper floors of the Federation bureaucracy. The people making the real decisions do not sit in a visible council room. They hide behind remote presence technology so effectively that you do not know what race they belong to or what their names are. This leads Alenym to consider the real possibility that whoever is at the top is just a misguided AI — a system that may have benevolent intentions in the abstract but allows atrocities in practice because it sees suffering as momentary and inevitable, a stepping stone to a better paradigm for those involved. The great time slip between worlds compounds the bureaucratic deterioration (265).
This is why independence is so difficult: there is no identifiable authority to negotiate with, appeal to, or defy. The jurisdiction is not absolute in the sense of being legally unassailable — it is absolute in the sense of being structurally inescapable. The decision-makers are anonymous, the rules are invented ad hoc, and the enforcement operates through proxies and dark agents rather than transparent legal processes.
The Consequences of Liberation
Alenym also explains why even successful rebellion against Federation jurisdiction creates new problems for the rebel. If a larger body like the Federation liberates any world, it acquires too much power, inviting tyranny on a large scale. But the reverse is equally true: if a single race liberates a world or defies the Federation, it faces ostracism, deterioration of exopolitical relations, mutual accusations from races it must continue to interact with, and the perception that it is warlike and invasive. Everything the liberating race does reverts upon it. From one point of view they are liberating a planet; from another equally valid one, they are invading it and imposing their values (265).
This creates a trap: you cannot easily leave the system because leaving it marks you as a threat to the system, and the system's other members — many of whom are genuinely ethical people operating in good faith — will treat you accordingly. Independence is punished not only by the corrupt elements at the top but by the legitimate members at the bottom who perceive defiance as destabilisation.
Evolution Across Speakers
Athena Swaruu (2021, 2023) provides the structural and political anatomy — the mutual accusations, the legal manoeuvring, the arbitrary restrictions, the Prime Directive wielded as a selective weapon.
Mari Swaruu (2023) exposes the coercive underbelly — space pirates used as dark agents, sabotage of dissident communication infrastructure, dirty tactics borrowed from the playbook of Earth politicians.
Alenym of Temmer (2022) adds the exopolitical and philosophical dimension — jurisdiction lost in anonymous bureaucratic layers, the trap of liberation, the possibility that the ultimate authority is a misguided AI running on bureaucratic inertia.
Swaruu of Erra (2020) frames the deepest answer: from above, all these jurisdictional struggles are internal conflicts of a single consciousness. The higher Federation does not need to enforce jurisdiction because from that level, there is no separation to enforce against. But from 5D and below, the struggle is real and the constraints are binding — not because the law is cosmic, but because the apparatus of enforcement is very much physical.
Key Transcript References
- 373 — Cosmic laws as perception agreements not absolutes; no organism regulates everything; Prime Directive applied selectively as excuse
- S-038 — Arbitrary restrictions on communication; rules applied to some but not others; Federation wants to keep Earth Matrix exactly as it is
- S-155 — Federation uses space pirates to force races to join; dark agents; sabotage of Taygetan/Urmah servers inside Viera
- 181 — Taygeta's legal separation through Alcyone Council (Feb 2021); mutual accusations between Taygeta and Federation; Swaruu of Erra's 2018 legal outing
- 265 — Liberation causes worse problems for the liberator; jurisdiction lost in upper bureaucratic layers; possibility of AI at the top; Federation permissive with extermination agenda
- 086 — Taygeta/Urmah withdrawal from military operations; Federation as hidden controllers
- 099 — Higher Federation acts through lower; no physical form above; intervention through perception changes not force