I was imagining the PEPPER thing written in anticipation of that (somehow, I sure as hell don't have wording hammered out) with clauses allowing stuff to be added. I was also thinking, assuming an energy-output-based metric for what counts as strategic or not, the criteria being deliberately low to include some stuff that really isn't... say, the edge being where the common off-the-shelf coilguns that everything including freighters and crap are sprouting for defense being excluded as well as fighter-scale guns, but stuff past that being included. I mean, if you set the limits right, "treaty ships" will be "fine", and there's a level of implicit social pressure to not do it that didn't exist with the Washington Naval Treaty.
I think living outside the Convention is going to be looked at, at least by most, as at least odd? Not necessarily criminal by any means, but some question about motives.
I think living outside the Convention is going to be looked at, at least by most, as at least odd? Not necessarily criminal by any means, but some question about motives.