Proposal, to help Mal avoid an aneurysm:
Somebody notices after the end of the Boskone War that some folks are still arming. This state of affairs is debated on the SMOF-ML for a few months, with the Warsies and Roughriders leading the pro-armament side and the Trekkies and VVS leading the disarmament side. The Senshi and StellviaCorp find themselves playing peacemaker more often than not. (One Humourist reported after the fact that the heat generated by the disagreement was enough to melt Europa.)
A resolution is presented and passed at AlphaCon to have the factions stand down from a war footing. Each group is allowed to keep a number of armed mobile assets, based on population. (For example, StellviaCorp's permitted "armed fleet" is two ships: the president's yacht and the Gagarin-class ship under construction at the time.) Point-defense weaponry is not included in this agreement. Excess "offensive assets" must be mothballed, seconded or sold to Great Justice, seconded or sold to the Space Patrol, or seconded or sold to the Sammies. Weapons of mass destruction (specifically including kaboomite, at Noah Scott's request) are outlawed for private ownership. Only Great Justice is permitted to possess WMDs; anyone else found guilty of possessing them is to be sentenced to a minimum of ten-years' hard labor at Azkaban.
The Space Patrol and Great Justice quickly find themselves the owners-of-record of a substantial fraction of the Warsies', Gearheads', Roughriders', and Dorsai's fleets. GJ also finds itself the owner of the process and equipment to create kaboomite.
A resolution is presented and passed at BubbleCon regarding the development of new armed-ship designs: While any faction is permitted to design a new ship, the actual building of such a ship is permitted only in two cases: to replace a previously-destroyed armed ship, or to sell to Great Justice or the Space Patrol. Such construction is to take place at an authorized shipyard - Utopia Planitia, Kuat Drive Yards, Bristol, BAT, and a few other shipyards (no more than a half-dozen, and none at L5) make the list.
Thoughts? Debate? Brickbats?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Somebody notices after the end of the Boskone War that some folks are still arming. This state of affairs is debated on the SMOF-ML for a few months, with the Warsies and Roughriders leading the pro-armament side and the Trekkies and VVS leading the disarmament side. The Senshi and StellviaCorp find themselves playing peacemaker more often than not. (One Humourist reported after the fact that the heat generated by the disagreement was enough to melt Europa.)
A resolution is presented and passed at AlphaCon to have the factions stand down from a war footing. Each group is allowed to keep a number of armed mobile assets, based on population. (For example, StellviaCorp's permitted "armed fleet" is two ships: the president's yacht and the Gagarin-class ship under construction at the time.) Point-defense weaponry is not included in this agreement. Excess "offensive assets" must be mothballed, seconded or sold to Great Justice, seconded or sold to the Space Patrol, or seconded or sold to the Sammies. Weapons of mass destruction (specifically including kaboomite, at Noah Scott's request) are outlawed for private ownership. Only Great Justice is permitted to possess WMDs; anyone else found guilty of possessing them is to be sentenced to a minimum of ten-years' hard labor at Azkaban.
The Space Patrol and Great Justice quickly find themselves the owners-of-record of a substantial fraction of the Warsies', Gearheads', Roughriders', and Dorsai's fleets. GJ also finds itself the owner of the process and equipment to create kaboomite.
A resolution is presented and passed at BubbleCon regarding the development of new armed-ship designs: While any faction is permitted to design a new ship, the actual building of such a ship is permitted only in two cases: to replace a previously-destroyed armed ship, or to sell to Great Justice or the Space Patrol. Such construction is to take place at an authorized shipyard - Utopia Planitia, Kuat Drive Yards, Bristol, BAT, and a few other shipyards (no more than a half-dozen, and none at L5) make the list.
Thoughts? Debate? Brickbats?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012