# Ultima Ratio Imperii Stellae

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**Created:** [October 30, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/ultima-ratio-imperii-stellae/775 "2024-10-30T15:24:30Z")\
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_(Because a comment thread back a ways suggested a mention of the big dakka that hopefully no-one will ever have to use might be in order…)_

**CASE DYSPEPTIC FLARE**

**MOST SECRET (ULTRAVIOLET) / EYES ONLY DYSPEPTIC FLARE**

**NEED-TO-KNOW ABSOLUTE HARD COPY ONLY/NO TRANSMISSION ORIGINATOR-CONTROLLED DISSEMINATION TRACKED-COPY DOCUMENT NOCONTRACT NOFORN SPECIAL SECURITY PROCEDURE BASILISK FIDELIS**

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**EXECUTION:**

**STRATEGIC ACTION MESSAGE ONLY IMPERIAL SECURITY EXECUTIVE ONLY FIFTH DIRECTORATE VETO WARMIND APPROVAL ONLY X-THREAT ONLY**

**SUMMARY:**

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The ultimate sanction available to the Existential Threats Primary Working Group at this time remains the use of weapons in contravention to Chapter I of the Ley Accords, to wit, weapons inducing severe uncontrolled stellar perturbation up to and including sequence change.

Three weapons systems matching this criterion are currently provisionally available under CASE DYSPEPTIC FLARE, representing extremal response cases to otherwise uncontrollable excessionary-level existential threats. Deployment of any of these weapons systems indicates a willingness to sterilize entire star systems, and in itself constitutes a x-level photon and particle radiation hazard to nearby (range \< 868 light-orbits, typical) star systems. These systems are:

- DYSPEPTIC FLARE SHANK, deployment of relativistic kill vehicle from the deterrent fleet maintained by the Black Flotilla on stellar impact course, inducing megascale coronal mass ejection; and
- DYSPEPTIC FLARE&nbsp;EMBRACE, use of extended iron-bombing&nbsp;or (untested/theoretical) twist-pinch device&nbsp;to induce stellar core collapse/artificial nova; and
- DYSPEPTIC FLARE HELLFIRE, deployment of CALYX HOLLOW or other strangelet device to stellar target, causing supernova-equivalent conversion event.

( **WARNING:** DYSPEPTIC FLARE HELLFIRE has intrinsic and unknown **black-level-plus** existential threat potential, since the energetic conversion event may (p \> δ)&nbsp;spread undecayed strangelets at relativistic speeds sufficient to prolong their lifespan,&nbsp;&nbsp;enabling them to reach other star systems, where they may in turn trigger conversion events; as a worst-case scenario this could lead to **self-replicant galactic annihilation.**

As such, deployment of DYSPEPTIC FLARE HELLFIRE is **absolutely prohibited** except when the Transcendent warmind certifies that the x-risk prompting its deployment is of severity/range **greater** than the projected worst-case result.)

Note that as an extremal response case, deployment of CASE DYSPEPTIC FLARE requires consensus approval of the Imperial Security Executive, subject to override veto by vote of the Fifth Directorate overwatch, and Transcendent warmind approval.

Note also that special release conditions (noted below) apply to DYSPEPTIC FLARE, including but not limited to certified prior release of minimum three non-extremal response cases in failure state; threat (p \> 0.5) of SKYSHOCK activity; unlimited collateral budget approval; and strategic ethics stricture \<= ABYSSAL.

**WARNING:**

**Communicating ANY PART of this NTK-A document to ANY SOPHONT other than those with preexisting originator-issued clearance, INCLUDING ITS EXISTENCE, is considered an alpha-level security breach and will be met with the most severe sanctions available, up to and including permanent erasure.**

Proceed (+/-)?

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://eldraeverse.com/2016/10/17/ultima-ratio-imperium-stellarum](https://eldraeverse.com/2016/10/17/ultima-ratio-imperium-stellarum)

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**Comments migrated from WordPress:**

> [@Jade Nekotenshi \<nekotenshi0@gmail.com\> on 2016-10-17 21:28:28 wrote](#):
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> Well, maybe there _is_ such a thing as overkill.
> 
> Maybe.
> 
> But when your whole local galactic cluster is about to get huffed by several myriad galactic masses of self-replicating pukoids, maybe it’s worth it. In that case, there is only “how much more kablooey can we pack into it?” and “we didn’t bring enough!”
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> > [@Alistair Young \<athanasius.skytower@arkane-systems.net\> on 2016-10-17 23:51:02 wrote](#):
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> > There’s always inducing a localized vacuum collapse and imploding physics around your target if you should need moar dakka.
> > 
> > And if even that fails, then there’s punching a hole in the brane and causing the entire universe to dissolve into the cacoastrum like a popped soap bubble… which, by destroying everything in every moment of its existence simultaneously as it would, might even qualify as enuff.
> > 
> > > [@Jade Nekotenshi \<nekotenshi0@gmail.com\> on 2016-10-18 07:35:58 wrote](#):
> > >
> > > It might at that!

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