| From: | ANGLISS BRIAN EDWARD <angliss@****.Colorado.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Maxim(forwarded from ShadowTK) |
| Date: | Tue, 23 Jan 1996 22:01:24 -0700 (MST) |
> PRIVATE: To All Maxim Employees
> cc: The Justices of the Corporate Court, Zurich-Orbital
First problem. Ignoring the format, there's no way that the UCAS
government would send something to all Maxim employees. First, it
wouldn't get through the firewalls and systems. Second, most of the
employees would have no say in what Maxim execs do(like Velli). Third,
this would have gone directly to Velli and the Board, as they're the only
ones to have enough control to do what they want below. Finally, sending
it to the Court seems reasonable, but not necessarily wise considering
that the Court could see this as an intrusion into thier territory and a
breach of etiquette.
>
> 1 The government of the United Canadian and American States views with great
> concern recent developments regarding Maxim (the subsidiaries responsible
> not clearly known) and their recent procurement and testing of nuclear
> weapons.
Ok so far.
> 1.1 This testing caused great risk to many organisations and individuals using
> civilian communication and navigation systems. While no fatalities are
> believed to have resulted from Maxim's nuclear test, this is the result
> solely of good fortune, and the UCAS wishes to express its severest
> displeasure at such irresponsible behaviour.
The navigational blips should not have occured, since the moon was in the
way and would have blocked most of the radiation and EMP, and what would
have been left would not have powerful enough to damage the sattelites
unless they were in geosynch or lunar orbit. Hell, there probably
shouldn't have been any damage to any sattelites, realistically, but it
made for a better story. But the GPS system today is a low earth orbit
system, which is one hell of a lot further from a lunar detonation than a
geosynchronous sattelite.
> 1.2 In addition, as events in Warsaw are already proving, Maxim's possession
> of nuclear weapons is contested by other corporations, organisations,
> foundations and other bodies. This contention has been seen to result in
> collateral damage extending outside the bounds of the Maxim facilities
> in question.
This is fine, and Maxim will pay for the collateral damages since it was
thier countermeasures that shot the cruise missiles down.
> 2 It has therefore been decided that any holdings of nuclear arms,
> facilities for the production of nuclear arms, or development facilities
> for the design and/or improvement of nuclear arms, in Maxim territories
> located within or contiguous to the UCAS, its territories and dominions,
> pose a clear and present danger to the people and properties of the UCAS.
Problem: The UCAS has zero say in what Maxim does on thier territory
due to the extraterritoriality laws. And the question arises regarding
Ares Macrotech, who is known to have a good sized stockpile of weapons,
and they're HQed in Detroit. Not only is thier nuke the one that blew up
in Chicago, but I think it's more than fair to assume that at least part
of thier stockpile is located on UCAS soil. They detonated a weapon on
UCAS soil, not the far side of the moon, and the UCAS didn't issue a
statement to Ares about nukes like this one. I would say that Ares is a
little bit more of a known threat than Maxim. Now, they major difference
is that Ares is an established corp that the others are leaving alone
while Maxim is an upstart that the corps are screwing with. Still,
please clarify and explain.
> 3 It is the intention of the United Canadian and American States that
> Maxim shall withdraw or destroy all nuclear arms and the facilities for the
> production, design, development, testing and/or deployment of said arms, to
> a location or locations not less than one hundred nautical miles from any
> part of the UCAS within seven days of the reciept of this note.
Ok, first major problem. In standard SR, the national governments simply
do not have anywhere near the power to force this, and the Big 8 and Corp
Court would not allow it to happen due to the tremendous and extremely
dangerous precedent it would it set worldwide. Corps just do not let
nations push them around and dictate what they do.
> 3.1 Should such withdrawal or destruction be deemed impractical, unsafe or
> uneconomic by Maxim, said arms and facilities shall be secured and
> administered on a de facto basis by the armed forces of the UCAS within
> forty-eight hours of the reciept of this note. This occupation shall be
> deemed solely to protect the citizenry and property of the UCAS, and shall
> not be judged to imply any change in the ownership of the arms or
> facilities involved.
Well, it would be called "trespassing on a sovereign nation's soil" as
well as "occupation". The only way it would be legal is if ownership was
exchanged. Otherwise, it breaks the UCAS's own laws regarding
extraterritoriality. MAJOR problem.
> 3.2 However, such occupation shall be assumed to be of an extremely temporary
> nature in order to permit Maxim to remove its arms and facilities to a
> location as described above, or to make arrangements for the complete and
> safe destruction of such arms and facilities, with this removal or
> destruction to occur in not less than twenty-eight days from the
> reciept of this note, or to negotiate the sale of such arms and/or
> facilities to the UCAS where neither removal nor destruction can be
> safely achieved within seven days from the reciept of this note.
Not likely. See above.
> 3.3 The UCAS wishes to make clear that it claims no jurisdiction over Maxim
> properties, personnel or facilities other than that required for the
> protection of its citizenry, properties and territories. Where Maxim
> properties, facilities and equipments must be destroyed or sold to the
> UCAS to comply with the terms of 3.1, a value shall be negotiated between
> Maxim and the UCAS and such sum paid to Maxim in compensation. Should
> negotiation be unable to agree a value, then independent arbitration
> shall be sought.
If they have no jurisdiction over properties, personnel, or facilities,
then this entire post is full of it and illegal according to law as I
understand it in the SR UCAS. Again, unless the UCAS is declaring war on
Maxim, it's illegal and the corps can't afford to let the UCAS dictate
anything to any major corp, even Maxim.
> 3.4 The co-operation of all Maxim personnel is most actively sought by the UCAS
> in this matter.
>
>
>
> 4 The UCAS also wishes to inform Maxim that compliance with this note is not
> requested, it is required. Should compliance and co-operation not be
> forthcoming, the UCAS will take active measures as necessary to secure its
> aims as declared in (3 and 3.1) above. The Maxim Corporation shall be
> held liable for all costs, liabilities, damage etc. arising out of
> such active measures.
Again, see above. Maxim would not take illegal operations on thier
"national" territories very well at all.
> 5 Maxim is also warned that, in the absence of other declarations of
> liability, any and all collateral damage arising from attacks on Maxim
> facilities within or contiguous to the UCAS (other than by uniformed
> members of the UCAS armed forces) will be assessed as the liability of the
> Maxim Corporation and its subsidiarities, unless the conditions laid out
> above have been complied with in full.
Actually, I don't have a problem with this one. Maxim would likely
accept limited responsiblity for this anyway, at least until Maxim was
able to extract payment from whoever caused the damage.
> 6 Any nation, corporation or organisation activating any nuclear, biological
> or chemical weapon within the UCAS will be treated as having committed an
> act of war against the UCAS and be liable to retaliation in kind, or of any
> lesser degree deemed appropriate.
No problem here either. Why do you think the test was done on the far
side of the moon in the first place? And anyone using biological or
chemical weapons is breaking various international bans and would likely
get nailed except in the case of world war.
> +++++END DIPLOMATIC NOTE
>
> This officially constitutes 'delivery'. The clock is running, people.
>
> Translation, for the cerebrally impaired, is that we don't really care
> what Maxim does with its nuclear firecrackers. What we care about is
> all that collateral damage to voting taxpayers caused by your corporate
> infighting. Madam Velli, please understand that the above is neither a warning,
> nor idle posturing. We *will not* permit the sort of damage Warsaw just
> suffered to be inflicted on any of our cities.
> And, just to clarify things, we have a handle on some of your assets involved.
> We don't claim to know where they all are. Unless Maxim are co-operative,
> we *will* be required to take an extremely active approach to seeking out
> and securing your nuclear stockpile. I repeat, the UCAS will not knowingly
> allow corporations to play nuclear brinkmanship within its territory.
In my not even remotely close to trying to be humble opinion, the UCAS is
a lame duck just like the CAS, Carib. League, most of the NAN, and 99% of
all the national governments in the world. Because of this, they would
not be in any position to demand this or to threaten any major
corporation with a whole hell of a lot. And the UCAS has a very large
percentage of the military keeping the bugs in Chicago. There's not a
prayer that the UCAS has the power to require this.
> Your move.]<<<<<
> --Lynch <23:50:34/23-1-57>
I'm going to leave off responding to this post for quite some time, as I
wait for responses. I'm sure there will be some.
Brian
