M Fnord Wrote:* Blanket ban on individual faction ownership of weapons of mass destruction / terror. (ABC weaponry[1], exotics like nanoswarms, aerosoled biomod handwavium, etc.)
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[1] Kaboomite being at the top of the list.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!
Noah wants to get rid of that albatross (as do I). Kohran keeps saying "but what if we need it?" and tries to make more... which was justified during the Boskone War when they actually were needed, but not since then. And Noah can produce records showing that the last of the pre-war and during-war batches of kaboomite were expended during OGJ.
And we can take that note about him scrounging enough uranium for two more warheads out of the FenWiki. Edit: I just did this.
(We probably want to add to that "banned" list as we think of things, such as trunk-sized FAEs. It might also be a good idea to list "kaboomite" as an example banned substance, thus telling everyone in-universe that it doesn't matter whether anyone else knows how to make it, it's what happens when it's set off that matters.)
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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