A system for sovereign identity governance of orbital edge computing nodes and autonomous vehicle platforms, comprising: three-gate sequential authorisation binding operator identity to compute workloads and vehicle sessions via hardware-anchored credentials; satellite timing attestation as jurisdictionally-independent root of trust; threshold-distributed provenance records across national flag jurisdictions; payment-gated compute initiation; biometric binding as mandatory precondition to autonomous operation; delivered as court-admissible deposition generation for liability events.