The Shuttlesport Conference of 1709 PD was an important conference of delegates from the Maya Sector. It was hosted in Shuttlesport, capital city of the Maya System on the planet Smoking Frog, with almost no publicitiy or public notice of it despite the fundamental changes that would come as a result of it. The delegates assembled a comprehensive strategy designed to turn Maya and its trading partners into a political and economic unit. While the conference delegates never expected to transform themselves into a multi-system star nation, they were able to forumlate a common economic strategy to bootstrap their less affluent members.