Call for guide lines for war

[Deleted]

I herby propose some kind of Geneva convention type thing. I appolagise if that already exsits.

[Administrator]

Nothing exists already. It would be handled in the RP section, rather than in Parliament though. Any negotiations could be done by the RPers since they are the people using it

[North American Republics]

Sounds good. It would have to be called something else though, and Azerzia is right, this is something better handled in the RP section. More ideas about it; signators could put a label like "Signer of the <something> Conventions" into their signature.

[Avaerilon]

Agreed; I've had quite few ideas about this myself. Would anyone be interested in co-authoring a set of guidelines?

[Deleted]

Remember that meeting on little narg? It can be called the Little Narg Convention...

[North American Republics]

How is this for a start:

Social Liberal Union Convention on the Standards of War

Article One

The signators of this document hearby agree to operate within the confines of this treaty as it pertains to warfare. The signators of this treaty will henceforth respect and honor the articles of this treaty.

Article Two

This treaty shall apply in both times of peace and in times of war with at least one signator as a participant. The parties that sign this treaty are held to the standards of international conventions and calls for the immediate removal from the list of signators should these conventions be violated.

Article Three

This treaty calls for the abstaination of the following acts on the part of the signators:

Article Four

Anybody have anything else to add?

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- Added "- Prisoners of war cannot be forced to give any other information than their name, service number and rank" under a new article, Article Four (will allow for more additions to the treaty regarding POWs).

[Avaerilon]

Prisoners of war are permitted to only reveal their names, service number and rank, if they so choose

Or rephrase it and insert it under Art. 3 as:

- Prisoners of war cannot be forced to give any other information than their name, service number and rank

[North American Republics]

Added.

[Deleted]

i, Think all involved n this discusion and the WA delegate shld be the signators

[Deleted]

Still can it be the Narg Prime Convention?

[North American Republics]

If everybody else is fine with it.

[Deleted]

why not something for everyone. the Galactic War book or somat. or Zap Branagans Big Book of War! lol

[Avaerilon]

How about the "2012 Social Liberal Union Convention on the Standards of War," for a long, legal one; just the "SLU War-Standards Convention" in short, perhaps. This keeps it realistic-sounding, professional and applies to nations without a military presence in space.

[North American Republics]

There we go; I changed the title.

[Deleted]

We should definetly lay out what is considered a WMD, and what is considered Bio warfare. We could use the Blackacre explosion as good reasons not to use nukes. We've had rogue scientists releasing the undead on us with bio warfare too. xD

For instance, we have massive floating warships that have the ability to level an entire city. They carry massive cannons that have a multitude of weapons platforms. It is also an aircraft carrier. Would those be considered a WMD, or conventional warfare, as they fire concentrated bursts and are mobile command centers?

Are EMP bombs considered WMD's?

[Avaerilon]

EMP bombs (at least the kind used by Avaerilon) destroy electrical circuits and cause metal to melt; they incapacitate enemy forces rather than kill them. It is possible that soldiers caught in the "eye" of the blast (where the plasma is hottest) could be killed, but this is fairly unlikely. Since they don't (directly) kill people, I do not believe they should be classified as WMDs.

[Deleted]

I saw that we have some people roleplaying with space in mind. Does this bring into context inter-planetary warfare?

Death star stuff should definetly be outlawed.

[Avaerilon]

Definitely; the potential for loss of life is catastrophic.

[Deleted]

i was about to post that kind of thing. however WMDs are acceptable for ship to ship combat.

[Deleted]

orbital bombardments on civilian presences shld be dissalowed

[Avaerilon]

How much damage to WMDs do to spacecraft?

[Deleted]

I still think wmd's used on ships is a bad idea. It pollutes water with radiation to unprecidented levels.

Force everyone to use non-lethal energy weapons... hehe

[Deleted]

i ment space-ships its hard to iradiate a vacuum..

[Deleted]

and a wmd could be a nuclear torpedo or a super laser or some giant plasma rotor...

[Newhalla]

well what about using asteroids to bombard a planet. Its both easy and have same destruction capacity as nukes or worse.

[Deleted]

I do have one weapon capable of destroying a planet. I would never use it on anything. The Flagship of Narglandia's First Navy, nicknamed Shoop Da Whoop is busy at work clearing (blowing up stars) in an attempt to create a large empire in the Deep Core of the Galaxy.