Who created the Prime Directive laws?
Short Answer
The Prime Directive was created as part of the primordial laws and rules established when the Federation of United Planets was founded, approximately 850,000 to 900,000 Earth years ago. The Federation itself was born out of desperate necessity — after the Great Expansion of Lyra, when reptilian forces from the Orion Council hunted humanoid Lyrian races to near extinction across the galaxy, scattered refugee civilisations formed a cooperative alliance to survive. The political structure that emerged was based on the Andromedan model of holistic governance, with Andromedans and Arcturians holding the most prominent positions in its Council system. The Prime Directive's creation thus wasn't a single legislative act by one species, but an organic product of hundreds of thousands of civilisations learning to coexist under existential threat.
However, the deeper answer complicates things significantly. Swaruu of Erra explained that the Prime Directive's laws are rooted in metaphysical agreements made "from the other side" — the spirit world — before incarnation, making them expressions of universal principles rather than purely political legislation. Yet Athena Swaruu later argued that cosmic laws are merely "agreements of perception" that change between densities, and that the Federation effectively "invents directives at every moment" through its Council system. This tension between the Prime Directive as timeless cosmic principle and as flexible political tool applied selectively runs throughout the material.
The Full Picture
The Great Expansion and the Birth of the Federation
The Federation's origin — and with it the Prime Directive's — traces back roughly one million Earth years. A powerful reptilian force coordinated by the Orion Council and created by Alpha Draconis invaded the Vega area, specifically the planets Avalon and Lyra. The Lyrian civilisation was peaceful and had no experience with warfare. Those who survived fled in every direction, scattering small groups of humanoid beings across the galaxy. This event is known as the Great Expansion of Lyra.
Swaruu of Erra described the aftermath: "Reptiles continued to hunt the species to the brink of extinction." Some planets were reduced to literally a handful of survivors hiding in caves. From this existential crisis, approximately 900,000 years ago, the Federation of United Planets was born. As Swaruu put it in both early and later conversations, the Federation emerged as "the need to cooperate and form an alliance to protect each other" against total annihilation. It was started primarily by humanoid Lyrian-descended species, though it would eventually grow to encompass close to half a million races and civilisations of all biological types — not just humanoid but also feline (Urmah), insectoid (Mantis), amphibian (Sirian), and many others.
The Attache channel's account from Yazhi adds that the invading force was specifically "coordinated by the Orion Council" which had been "created by Alpha Draconis or also known as the Supreme Reptiles." The Council was "an alliance of races mainly of the sauroid type." This detail matters because it shows the Federation wasn't formed against a single enemy but against an organised coalition — which helps explain why the Federation's own structure had to be equally organised and why its rules, including the Prime Directive, needed to be comprehensive.
Key sources: 004 (Federation founding, ~850-900k years ago), 138 (Great Expansion, Federation born from need to survive), A-006 (Federation of United Planets born ~900k years ago, Orion Council details)
Who Actually Built the Political Structure
The Federation's governance model — the framework within which the Prime Directive operates — was based specifically on the Andromedan model of holistic society. Mari Swaruu described this system in detail: it operates through Council meetings where subjects are discussed to achieve consensus, not through voting. "All holistic societies see the voting system as archaic and dangerous, as decisions may be taken with loaded interests," she explained, giving the pointed example that if fifty people vote on children's education but forty-five are predators, democracy fails catastrophically.
The system uses what's called a "step Council" structure: smaller local Councils handle community issues, and when a problem exceeds their capacity, it escalates to the next Council above, and so on up to a planetary High Council. The Federation replicates this exact structure at an interstellar scale. At the Earth-specific level, the first and smallest Council meets somewhere underground in Antarctica, where Federation representatives interact with human-level politicians and secret society members. Above that sits the Council for Earth Affairs aboard the Andromedan biosphere ship Viera, permanently stationed behind the Moon. At this level, Andromedans and Arcturians hold "the ranking or most prominent chairs."
Above the Viera level is the Solar System High Council, headquartered "somewhere in the rings of Saturn and in some of her moons." Mari noted that information about this level is poor and admitted: "even the Federation representatives at the Viera level here say that they don't know details." She connected this secrecy to the well-documented Cabal obsession with Saturn symbolism on Earth — the rings in corporate logos, the proliferation of black cubes — and concluded that "something very shady is going on around Saturn."
This layered structure means that the Prime Directive isn't enforced by a single authority but through a cascade of Councils, each with their own level of knowledge, resources, and apparently their own degree of opacity. The laws created at the Federation's founding filter through this system, interpreted and applied differently at each level.
Key sources: S-037 (Federation internal structure, step Council system, Andromedan model, Saturn headquarters), 447 (Federation power structures, hierarchy)
The Metaphysical Foundation of the Laws
When Gosia asked Swaruu of Erra directly "Who sets all this in motion? Metaphysical laws... karmic laws?" the answer pointed beyond the political realm entirely. Swaruu explained that the Prime Directive's origins are "very old and coming from the other side. The spirit world." The laws apply to both "the real 5D Matrix and the 3D Matrix incarnation games." The physical laws like the Prime Directive and the metaphysical laws are "tied to one another." The Prime Directive, Swaruu said, "is based on metaphysical laws. The agreements we all made from the other side. Agreements about how things should be on this side."
This framing positions the Prime Directive not merely as political legislation drafted by committee but as an attempt to codify pre-existing spiritual agreements into enforceable rules. The Federation founders weren't inventing principles from scratch — they were translating metaphysical realities into a governance framework that could function across hundreds of thousands of diverse civilisations.
The metaphysical basis also connects to why the Cabal on Earth must "tell the people all their plans" — what Swaruu described as operating under "metaphysical laws that they observe, which are also related to the laws that other races observe and that are directly related to the Prime Directive." The elites modify and twist these laws for their own purposes, but they remain bound by the same underlying spiritual mechanics. The Prime Directive and the Cabal's practice of hiding truth in plain sight share a common metaphysical root.
Key sources: 004 (Prime Directive based on metaphysical laws, agreements from spirit world), S-035 (Prime Directive as translated from Taygetan archives)
Space Law, Maritime Law, and Star Trek
An important detail about the Prime Directive's composition is its structural parallel with Earth legal systems. Mari Swaruu noted that the document contains protocols for "space law, which is basically identical to the structure of your maritime law," suggesting that Earth's maritime law framework is actually derived from Federation space law rather than the other way around. This also emerged in transcript 181 where the parallel between Space Law and Maritime Law was discussed as a direct lineage.
The Federation also deliberately seeded the Prime Directive concept into Earth culture through Gene Roddenberry. Swaruu explained that in the late 1950s, Roddenberry "was in a retreat where he spoke with a Pleiadian woman who gave him the base concepts for Star Trek." Even Leonard Nimoy reportedly acknowledged that "some very strange people explained all this to him." The elite promoted Star Trek because it gave the public exposure to real Federation concepts while framing everything as fiction — following their principle of hiding truth in plain sight. As Mari later elaborated, the concept exists on Earth "but people relate it to the realms of science fiction and not a fact."
This means the Prime Directive has existed in two forms on Earth: the actual Federation document (which fills several volumes of archives, covering everything from space exploration protocols to biological contamination procedures) and the simplified Hollywood version designed to simultaneously disclose and obscure the real thing.
Key sources: S-035 (Space law = maritime law, Star Trek as disclosure), 004 (Gene Roddenberry, Pleiadian contact, Prime Directive as known on Earth)
Laws as Perception Agreements — The Deeper View
The most philosophically challenging perspective on who "created" the Prime Directive came from Swaruu of Erra (Swaruu 9) and Athena Swaruu. When asked whether cosmic laws exist, Swaruu 9 gave a layered answer: "From a point of view limited to certain densities, or from a certain observational perspective yes, there are. From the more expanded point of view, there is no such thing as a cosmic law. Everything is possible, everything is there."
Laws in any density are simply "agreements of perception" among those who inhabit that realm. As you move up in density, the agreements change because perceptual abilities change. "Ultimately, if you think something it is, so there is nothing that applies as a law. Because if everything is consciousness, there is nothing physical to stop you. It's just agreements on how to see things." Swaruu illustrated this with the speed of sound barrier — mathematically "proven" impossible to break until 1947 when someone broke it, after which it became routine. The same principle applied to the four-minute mile: impossible until an adolescent who "knew nothing about this law or agreement" ran it in 3:58.
Applied to the Prime Directive, this means the laws weren't "created" in any absolute sense — they were agreed upon by beings at a particular level of consciousness, and they hold authority only insofar as enough beings continue to agree they should. This perspective directly challenges any attempt to treat the Prime Directive as immutable cosmic law, and it explains why Athena Swaruu could observe that "the laws of the Federation itself are not very precise" and that Federation Councils essentially "invent directives at every moment" that "are only decreed in Council for each situation."
The regulatory mechanism that truly governs behaviour, Athena argued, is not the Federation's bureaucracy but "the Law of Cause and Effect or karma. The Law of Manifestation, or the Law of Mirrors." There is "no organism that regulates everything to that precision. Everything applies only to the natural laws of each realm, laws that exist only by agreements of perception among those who live in that realm." These perception-based agreements are formed "from the spirit side" — connecting back to Swaruu's original explanation that the Prime Directive is rooted in metaphysical agreements from "the other side."
Key sources: 373 (cosmic laws as perception agreements, Prime Directive invented at every moment), 004 (metaphysical foundation)
A Law That Doesn't Apply to Its Most Famous Subject
Perhaps the most significant tension in the Prime Directive's creation story is that the law was designed to protect naturally developing civilisations — but Earth, the planet most associated with its enforcement, doesn't qualify. The Prime Directive states it applies to cultures that haven't achieved interstellar capability and are developing through "normal cultural evolution." But as Mari Swaruu argued forcefully, Earth's cultural evolution is anything but normal: "The Federation is directly involved in all the politics and in all the technological developments and in all aspects of human society and science, so in no way do I see the application of the Prime Directive as valid here."
Earth's humans are Lyrians — the same species the Federation was originally created to protect. The 3D Matrix suppression system was placed by the Federation itself after the destruction of Tiamat roughly 12,500 years ago. As Swaruu noted when Gosia pointed this out: "Right! And that's also why we do interfere. Because you are an artificially 'lesser' race. Placed there by others."
The creators of the Prime Directive designed it to shield vulnerable civilisations from external exploitation. The irony is that the civilisation it's most aggressively applied to — Earth — is in its current state precisely because of the same external forces the Federation was created to oppose. The law has become a tool for maintaining the very condition it was written to prevent.
Key sources: S-035 (Prime Directive not applicable to Earth), 004 (Earth as artificially lesser race), 138 (3D Matrix placed by Federation after Tiamat), 447 (Federation complicity critique)
Evolution Across Speakers
Swaruu of Erra (Swaruu 9) provided the foundational account: the Prime Directive was created "some 850 to 900 thousand years ago" as part of the Federation's founding laws, rooted in metaphysical agreements from the spirit world. She treated it as flexible philosophy, acknowledged breaking it "too many times to count," and identified the key tension between political law and cosmic principle. She also introduced the concept that all laws are density-dependent perception agreements.
Athena Swaruu sharpened the philosophical critique, stating that cosmic laws only exist as "agreements of perception" that change between densities. She was most pointed about the Federation's inconsistency: the Prime Directive "is not always followed or obeyed" and the Federation "invents directives at every moment" through situational Council decrees.
Mari Swaruu provided the most detailed structural account — the step Council system, the Andromedan model, the specific Federation hierarchy from Antarctica through Viera to Saturn. She translated the Prime Directive text directly from Taygetan archives and argued most systematically that it doesn't validly apply to Earth. She also identified the troubling opacity at higher Federation levels, particularly around Saturn.
Yazhi Swaruu contributed the Orion Council details through the Attache channel and, through her role coordinating Project Second Contact, demonstrated that the Prime Directive remains a living document whose boundaries are actively negotiated.
Key Transcript References
- 004 — Prime Directive created ~850-900k years ago with Federation founding; metaphysical basis from "the other side"; philosophy not dogma; broken "too many times to count"
- 138 — Great Expansion of Lyra; Federation born from need to survive; reptilian invasion; 3D Matrix placed after Tiamat
- 181 — Federation founding races; Space Law = Maritime Law parallels
- 373 — Cosmic laws as perception agreements changing with density; Prime Directive "invented at every moment" by Council; no fixed parameters
- 447 — Federation power structures; comprehensive critique of Prime Directive inconsistency
- A-006 — Federation of United Planets born ~900k years ago; Orion Council coordinated by Alpha Draconis; Great Expansion details
- S-035 — Full Prime Directive text translated from Taygetan; space law = maritime law; Gene Roddenberry disclosure; not applicable to Earth
- S-037 — Federation internal structure; step Council system; Andromedan model; Andromedans/Arcturians hold prominent chairs; Saturn level opacity