Milliardo Peacecraft
Garos IV

I'd like to raise a point of information with the Chair. Section 3,Paragraph E in the Capital Ships Act doesn't forbid turbo lasers. The Senator of Volus is misrepresenting the facts in what appears to be part of a trend in making breaches of protocol in order to benefit her.

Obviously I vote against allowing this motion. Enough of your dirty politics.

And honestly Senator Ordan, that ship is of little matter in this debate though I would be curious how you came about the designs. This is a matter of planetary defense and that particular paragraph will weaken each planets right to defend its space.

Your vessel can replace its weapons with normal turbo lasers, as my act allows. You really ought to consider how your seeking of massive firepower must look to your neighbours. No one wants to be threatened by your massive guns which could flatten cities and indiscriminately kill millions.

I could not in all good conscience vote to allow the delegalisation of such weapons of mass destruction for individual worlds.

Peace for all. Defence for all. The ability to attack for none. I vote against this motion.

Your motion threatens only proliferation of dangerous weapons. Your motion promises war, destruction and horror. Have you seen a community hit by one of these weapons Senator Star? The horror of skeletons melted into the glass of the floor, frozen in paroxysms of pain? Have you seen the burns the people in the area suffer from the horrific heat? The wildfires caused which can consume whole communities and slaughter countless more.

I will never vote to allow worlds to possess the kinds of heavy turbo lasers which caused these horrors. It is thoroughly despicable that you seem to wish to see individual worlds in possession of weapons of mass destruction.

A world can be more than adequately protected under the Capital Ships Act, it levels the playing field with regard to planetary forces. I would not dream of endorsing the militarist and expansionist fantasies held by the supporters of this act.

We've been over this before. It is your own motion which threatens our security. It's your motion which seeks to allow worlds with the weapons that Senator Ordan has highlighted as inappropriate for worlds to own.

The Capital Ships Act endorses worlds which seek to defend themselves, and seeks to encourage worlds not to maintain aggressive force (and indeed prevents them doing so).

And as to Senator Oriel, your right we could possess those ships, but instead we have chosen, as is our hereditary right, to put our men and women in space in less danger by providing them a ship more capable of defending itself. With stronger shields and a much thicker hull and the ability to drive away most attackers from our system. If YOU wanted those ships by all means but it is not a right solution for everyone and you should not try to force it onto everyone.

Volus can sell or scrap its vessel. It can buy new ones. Your obscene battleship is a danger to everyone on your world. It represents a strategy which everyone has known from childhood to be bad: putting all your eggs in one basket. Itnis a travesty which doesn't serve to protect your people, and in not having a better defence strategy I feel your government should be impeached for gross negligence. It's horrible to think you're risking your world with the inadequate force you're proposing based around one ship.

In the name of sanity, stop seeking Imperial recognition for your militaristic dreams of grandeur. Scrap your strategically worthless vessel and select a selection of defences for your world. Your aggressive, intimidating, hulking dinosaur of a vessel is not offering you the defence you claim to need. You do not need a vessel of aggression such as this for defence, you need defence vessels.

Added (13 Nov 2010, 4:56 Am)
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Allow me to make a simple compromise as this will work for all parties involved.

Instead of its outright repeal we will simply modify it to add the words that it does not apply to any vessel who meets the requirements of a defensive ship. Which should abate the senators concerns that these vessels will be used against neighbors as they have very slow or no hyperdrive at all.

That being said, I also vote against this measure, and hope that the two of you can leave the decision to the Senators that have yet to voice their opinions.