- The Affini win, always. There are no civilizations more powerful than the Affini Compact; some civilizations might have individual fields of tech that are similar to affini tech levels, but only extremely rarely (even in the Big Local Group).
- The Terrans never stood a chance anyway. That doesn't mean they can't fight, nor even that they can't be somewhat successful in a small scale, limited manner, but there was never any chance of repelling Affini control.
- Capitalism is bad and will not come back ever. Including scenes set pre-fall-of-capitalism is ok!
- The affini are benevolent, though fallible.
- The affini want everyone to be happy (and generally succeed in doing that), even if sometimes that definition runs counter to other’s values / agency.
- Affini do not abuse / neglect their florets deliberately
- Don’t talk about kids outside of mentioning that characters had a past / childhood.
- The affini respect the wishes / desires of their florets and their non-floret, non-affini citizens so long as their wants / desires do not run counter to the fundamentals of their ideological goals. (Ensuring happiness, safety and wellbeing for everyone, maintaining the dominance of the affini compact, getting to pet cute sophonts).
- Affini will rarely directly lie to other sophonts, but can mislead in other ways. This is a cultural conceit rather than anything inherent.
- This doesn't mean that nothing bad can ever happen, or that nobody ever gets hurt or upset, simply that an affini would never intentionally cause it.
- It’s a Big Local Group; lots of things can happen as long as they follow the guidelines!
- As a writer, avoid deliberately contradicting other works (at least without prior negotiation).
- The will and spirit of Free Terra will
live forever and never be crushed!!!!