>>826
not only is there no reason, it's illogical. Extraterrestrial autonomous governance must happen. What's the point of space colonization if the planets will always be dependent on Earth? They have to become independent.
The only reason it's in treaty that countries can't own anything in space they didn't shoot in there themselves is because cold war stuff.
We'll have to see a whole breakdown of the current United Nations and general order of the world before we see recognized extraterrestrial countries, but perhaps before that we might see settlements from corporations slowly fall into the hands of the people that live there. A la America.
Might take a bit though.