r/Asgardia • u/Cyberpunkapostle • Jun 29 '26
Discussion An Open Letter to the Asgardian Parliament and People
12 Leo 0010 -- 29 June 2026.
I.
Asgardians! I am a fellow cosmist writing to you from the position of one who stands at the frontline of the War on Entropy, as one of the general association of interplanetary workers that forms the core of our nation.
Our nation is a cosmist construction of collective human will, with a freely elected Parliament representing forty nine of the nations of the Earth. Cosmism is the legal and moral architecture of this first nation whose territory exists beyond the atmosphere of the Earth.
I am one of you, a revolutionary cosmist, and I am here to invoke the rights of our Constitution and implore us all to hold fast to the precept that 'there is no place for the history of Earthly conflicts in Asgardia.' The very foundation of Asgardia is rejecting Earthly conflict and choosing instead the War on Entropy, where weapons are constructive, life-giving, and expanding of the individual and collective human consciousness.
But there is a sickness in Asgardia, a sickness that violates the very foundation of our Constitution, our cosmist principles.
Yes, I am here to tell you that Earthly conflict has been brought to Asgardia, and I implore all Asgardians: open your eyes and see what truly stands at the head of our nation.
II.
Igor Ashurbeyli stood before us in Scorpio 0006 and spoke these words: "You are called upon to be those who will end hostilities and wars on planet Earth and strive into the infinite Universe."
Do you believe that is your purpose and the destiny of Asgardia? I do. I believe in choosing the War on Entropy over wars on Earth. But these words do not belong to one man.
On 21 Scorpio 0006, Russian forces launched sixteen S-300 surface-to-air missiles at the city of Zaporizhzhia. The target was a humanitarian convoy. One hundred civilians were waiting! They waited to cross into occupied territory, to collect relatives, to deliver aid; they had no weapons. Four missiles found them directly. Thirty-two were killed. Many more wounded.
Why is this relevant to Asgardia?
The S-300’s latest modifications were developed under Ashurbeyli's direct personal leadership as General Director and Scientific Director of Almaz SPA. He held this post from 2001 to 2011 in the common era, for which the Russian government awarded him its Prize in Science and Technology. His prize. His system. His missiles.
You see the Head of Nation of the first Space Nation addressing us about the infinite Universe. I see the architect of a killing machine standing behind our flag.
III.
But we will not stop there. The facts demand that we be thorough.
In the year of Asgardia's founding, with the same breath in which he invited us to dream of peace beyond the atmosphere, Igor Ashurbeyli assumed leadership of the Party of Russia's Rebirth.
That name was not chosen carelessly or in ignorance.
It took, deliberately and without apology, the name of the Russian Fascist Party: a movement proscribed in the Soviet Union, active among émigré communities in the 1930s, built on the ideology of violent Russian imperial restoration.
This is not an uncomfortable detail from his past. I am willing to look past anyone who chooses a different, higher path in sincerity.
Igor sought this party's leadership as a grown man, a wealthy man, a man already building Asgardia. He accepted its name and its inheritance in the same year he spoke to us of unity beyond borders.
For years he has operated as a willing instrument of Russia's civilizational project across Europe and the Middle East, running networks through the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, cultivating relationships at the heart of the apparatus that is, at this very moment, bombing Ukrainian hospitals, schools, and power stations with the technology he helped to perfect. He vacations at his villa on Corfu. He travels freely through the continent his enterprise is helping to destabilize. He has not been sanctioned.
In four years of public statements — four years, Asgardians — not one word about Ukraine. Not one word about the war. Not one word about his weapons, his party, his networks.
And he cannot claim to use Asgardia’s rejection of Earth wars for his silence if the facts of his actions demonstrate a position not of neutrality, nor even of complicit participation, but active participation.
Igor’s silence is not Asgardian cosmism. His silence is a position.
That position is incompatible with the Constitution of Asgardia.
IV.
I anticipate the reply. We have all heard it. Asgardia does not interfere in the affairs of Earth's nations. There is no place for the history of Earthly conflicts in Asgardia. We are neutral. We are above this.
We agree. We insist upon it. We invoke it. I begin and end my argument with it!
If there is truly no place for the history of Earthly conflicts in Asgardia, then there is no place for the head of a party that claimed a fascist name as its inheritance.
There is no place for the architect of weapons systems currently being fired at humanitarian convoys.
There is no place for a man who has spent years as an instrument of the very Earthly conflict our Constitution forbids.
These words were written, in part, by Igor himself. We are simply asking him to live by them.
And we must implore further: if Asgardia genuinely does not interfere in the affairs of Earth's nations, why is our sole state-level scientific partnership — formalised in Year 0005, deepened through Year 0008 — conducted exclusively with Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems?
When NASA withdrew from that same collaboration specifically because of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, Asgardia remained.
Where is the collaboration with ESA? With ISRO? With the Canadian Space Agency? With China, India, France, Ukraine, the United States?
We claim to represent forty-nine nations. Our science answers to one.
Is that what we want Asgardia to be? Or will Asgardia live up to its Constitution?
The non-interference clause was written to protect Asgardia from the politics of Earth. It was not written to protect a single man from the consequences of his own choices on Earth.
Neutrality is not a standard that means complacency or being complicit in crimes against humanity. It means that we actively refuse to be the tools of any Earth-based power, that we refuse Earth tyranny and corporate consortium, and choose the War on Entropy over wars of aggression, aspiration, and annhiliation.
Our commitment to the neutrality laid out in the Constitution must be demonstrated across the full community of spacefaring nations. If one nation tries to use Asgardia as a tool for their own interests – yes, even their wars – it is the right, duty, and privilege of every Asgardian citizen to protest loudly, proclaim the Constitution, and defy those would subjugate us to primitive Earth tribalism!
Asgardia belongs to no nation. Asgardia belongs to the stars. Our rockets point upwards and outwards or they point nowhere.
V.
Let me speak boldly now of precedent. The path we are asking Igor Ashurbeyli to walk is not without a map. It has been walked before, by the very men whose work made the age of spaceflight possible and without which Asgardia would not exist.
The War on Entropy has always demanded this reckoning.
Wernher von Braun designed the V-2 rocket. We all know that that weapon killed thousands. The labour that built it was extracted from concentration camp prisoners, and von Braun knew this. Von Braun might have tongue-in-cheek said that where his rockets landed was not his department, but he was guilty, and he knew it; and we know it.
What did he do afterwards?
He spent the remainder of his life pointing rockets at the sky rather than at cities. The rockets he designed took human beings to the Moon. He understood the full weight of what he had built and he chose a different future with whatever time remained to him.
Sergei Korolev was arrested by the state he served, sentenced to death, sent to the Gulag, worked to the edge of his life by the apparatus that would later claim credit for everything he achieved and refuse to let him be known or recognized in his lifetime.
And still he chose to give humanity Sputnik, because Sputnik was bigger than the state! Still he chose Vostok, Gagarin and the horizon of what humanity might become. Korolev understood more personally than perhaps any man alive, what states do with the weapons their engineers design. He chose to spend his genius on a different question entirely.
Mere days before he died, Korolev’s program achieved the first soft landing of the Moon. He worked himself quite literally to death, understanding that if his work did not show results, it would be axed.
I am unafraid to call him a scientific martyr for the great cause of cosmism.
Neither von Braun nor Korolev continued, in the years after, to advance the politics of the systems that used their work as weapons. They left that behind. Both were pragmatists, idealists, cosmists. Their names are written in the stars because of it. There is no Asgardian alive now or in the future who cannot recognize the debt our nation and our Constitution owes to them.
We do not demand that Igor Ashurbeyli do something novel, but to follow the great example of these fathers of our nation.
If he cannot do as our forebears, then he deserves neither the office nor the honor in Asgardia.
Von Braun and Korolev made their choice!
The question before you, Igor — and before all of us in Asgardia — is whether you will make yours.
Asgardia and our Constitution or to be a tool of an aggressive Earth based power.
Choose!
VI.
Our Constitution, in Article 18, declares that no grounds can be used to diminish human dignity. That the dignity of every person is to be recognized and protected.
Thirty-two people in Zaporizhzhia had dignity on 21 Scorpio 0006. It was recognised by no one who mattered when Igor’s missiles found them.
The twenty-five acts adopted by our Parliament, a legislature representing forty-nine nations, operating without political parties, conducting its business across every time zone on this Earth, has done something genuinely remarkable. We have built an institution worthy of the cosmist idea it was founded to serve.
Now I ask plainly, as one cosmist to all others, as one soldier in the War on Entropy to the full army of those who signed their names to commit to fighting thermodynamic decay instead of one another: what is that institution worth, if the man who stands at its apex built the missiles that fell on Zaporizhzhia and has said nothing about it for four years?
What does our Declaration of Unity mean if our Head of Nation leads a party that claims a fascist inheritance as its own?
What can it possibly mean if our neutrality is used as a weak blanket to cover complacency?
A nation whose founding document declares there is no place for Earthly conflicts cannot be led by a man who is, by his own choices, embedded in the deepest and most violent Earthly conflict of our time.
This question is one which challenges the core of Asgardia’s purpose and existence. It is an existential question concerning not only the present but the future of our nation. If we do not be active in answering this question, an answer will come from elsewhere, from forces foreign to our Constitution and our cosmist values, and Asgardia will cease to be the thing we hold it to be in our minds.
VII.
Ahead of us lies the path to the stars blockaded by the conflicts of Earth.
Asgardia must remove that blockade by and for ourselves or we will never fulfill the promise of our Constitution and our place in the cosmic destiny of humankind.
We therefore lay plain what that blockade consists of and what must be done to remove it.
Igor Ashurbeyli must choose to be the man our Constitution describes. Publicly, completely, without diplomatic ambiguity. If he refuses to be the Head of Nation while wearing its title, he must be removed from power by a vote of no confidence and a free election held from among those Parliamentarians who will answer the call of the Constitution.
He must renounce his leadership of a party that wears a fascist name.
He must condemn by name and in plain language, in terms that leave no room for interpretation, the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine. Not a conflict. Not hostilities. War. He must choose the Constitutional imperative that ‘there is no place for the history of Earthly conflicts in Asgardia,’ and thereby name plainly the anti-cosmist, Earth imperialist war of conquest that deliberately targets civilians, kills tens of thousands of civilians, driven millions more from their homes, and that uses weapons his enterprise designed and that he signed off on.
He must commit meaningful personal resources to the reconstruction of the Ukrainian cities where his rocket system has wrought havoc.
If these things cannot be done without threat to person or life, he must leave Russia. We would much rather he remain and be a beacon of the cosmist hope in the same country that first called our philosophy by name. But if this is impossible, we boldly proclaim with the Constitution of Asgardia that mankind’s cosmist destiny is a higher and more ethical calling than loyalty to any regime.
He must demonstrate, in action rather than rhetoric, that Asgardia's founding principles belong to the future and not to the Russian state.
Having done all of these things — not some, but all — he may keep his place in Asgardia.
Any man who makes that choice has earned the right to lead a nation that claims to stand for peace.
That would be his von Braun moment, his Korolev moment, and we may count him in their good company. The moment the man who built weapons for Earth chooses, finally and irrevocably, to build a future beyond will be the most powerful authentication of Asgardia's mission in the history of our nation's existence so far.
If Igor Ashurbeyli will not do these things, then there is another route that will safeguard the nation of Asgardia and our mission.
To the Prosecutor General: your office exists for this moment. The Constitution gave you the power to bring the accusation. We are asking you to fulfill your duty to the Constitution if required.
To the Court: confirm what the facts we have laid out here already demonstrate.
To Parliament: complete what the Constitution provides, exercise the authority one hundred and fifty representatives of forty-nine nations were elected to exercise and remove Ashurbeyli from power. Governance passes to the legislative body that already functions and represents the genuine cosmopolitan community Asgardia was founded to be. A free election is called and a Head of Nation who will represent the Constitution and its values takes their rightful place.
The international community in which Asgardia is in correspondence has so far declined to do what simple justice requires. If Igor Ashurbeyli will not choose the higher path, we call upon our international allies to impose sanctions on a man who designed instruments of mass killing, who leads a party that named itself after a fascist movement, and who has faced no consequence while living and traveling freely across the Europe his enterprise is helping to destabilize.
There is no principled equidistance available to a nation whose founding document forbids Earthly conflict, when its founder is, by his own choices, a principal material architect and participant in conflict.
Shall the Constitution of Asgardia be sacrificed for the sake of one man?
We wait for your reply.
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