From: Serendip Belt at CONFERENCE
To:   All
Week: 8

Serendip Belt has no ‘horrific X-bomb planet-busters’

Greetings. While the CDSD is an undoubtedly worthy organisation, it is sadly misinformed concerning Serendip Belt, and I wish to make the records correct.

Serendip Belt has no ‘horrific X-bomb planet-busters’. The X-bomb class are the result of an abandoned project to investigate star formation and ignition by means of several thermonuclear detonations in the teratonne range. The project was dropped for political reasons, and the warheads were never fitted. In order to prove this, I have sent with this declaration one of these vessels for inspection. You will see that it contains no warhead, nor space for one. They are presently used for remote sensing operation in the turbulent atmosphere of gas giants, or over long periods in the outer system. If you are not satisfied by your inspection and densitometer scans, the crew of the vessel that carried it here have orders to destroy it on your request. All delegates are further invited to inspect any one of these vessels in Serendip Belt, at any time, to ensure that all of this class are identical. These too will be decommissioned on request.

Serendip Belt has no need for a dedicated ‘planet-buster’, nor can we see a need for anyone else to have such an obvious first strike weapon. We fully support the utter eradication of any such weapons, and hope that, through the CDSD, other nations will do the same, and those who possess these weapons will elect to destroy them.

Admiral H. van Dawn.