The PRIMUS Treaty

[Peregrine]

By (semi-)popular demand, I present a Champion Universe variant: the PRIMUS Treaty. (Note that this originated in a heavily variant CU; I have attempted to rework it to fit in the CU as published.)

 

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History: The genesis for the PRIMUS Treaty was found in two seemingly unrelated circumstances, neither of which had anything to do with each other, or with PRIMUS itself.

 

The first was Istvatha V'han's attempted invasion of Earth in 1998; more specifically, in the ultimately successful response to that invasion. Due to the dimensional breach occurring in space, between the orbits of Earth and Mars (CU, p. 100), the invasion was initially thought to be merely extraterrestrial. As Earth's primary orbital presence, UNTIL was in the vanguard of the response, a precedent-setting action. Since that time, UNTIL has perceptibly been orienting itself toward the mission of serving as the primary representative of and first line of defense for the Earth versus extraterrestrial societies. (see UNTIL:DoF, pp. 70-71, 120-126, et. al.)

 

The second was the ongoing issues that the Canadian government continued to experience with their controversial Steelhead program. Elements within the Canadian government began quietly searching for alternatives to the program that would enable them to deploy a reliable anti-supers capacity. Their search led them into informational discussions with representatives from PRIMUS, discussions that slowly became more exploratory.

 

The outcome of those explorations was the first draft of what was eventually the PRIMUS Treaty. The U.S. and Canada were the first (and so far only) signatories to the Treaty, but other nations have expressed interest.

 

Treaty Provisions

 

The PRIMUS Treaty establishes PRIMUS as an international treaty organization akin to NATO (though completely separate from the older military treaty organization). Signatory nations agree to allow PRIMUS to establish and maintain bases, deploy personnel, and perform law enforcement duties within their territory. In return, each signatory is allowed/required to appoint a National Director to serve on the PRIMUS Directorate, which gives each signatory direct visibility into and authority over PRIMUS operations both in general and in their own territory in particular.

 

(Organizational structure, both operational and administrative, still to come.)

[Clonus]

Re: The PRIMUS Treaty

 

Unfortunately it's the wrong acronym for an international treaty organization.

[Peregrine]

Re: The PRIMUS Treaty

 

They didn't create a new acronym; they dropped the acronym and kept the name all caps.

 

(And I had never noticed that before you mentioned it!)

[bubba smith]

Re: The PRIMUS Treaty

 

By (semi-)popular demand, I present a Champion Universe variant: the PRIMUS Treaty. (Note that this originated in a heavily variant CU; I have attempted to rework it to fit in the CU as published.)

 

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History: The genesis for the PRIMUS Treaty was found in two seemingly unrelated circumstances, neither of which had anything to do with each other, or with PRIMUS itself.

 

The first was Istvatha V'han's attempted invasion of Earth in 1998; more specifically, in the ultimately successful response to that invasion. Due to the dimensional breach occurring in space, between the orbits of Earth and Mars (CU, p. 100), the invasion was initially thought to be merely extraterrestrial. As Earth's primary orbital presence, UNTIL was in the vanguard of the response, a precedent-setting action. Since that time, UNTIL has perceptibly been orienting itself toward the mission of serving as the primary representative of and first line of defense for the Earth versus extraterrestrial societies. (see UNTIL:DoF, pp. 70-71, 120-126, et. al.)

 

The second was the ongoing issues that the Canadian government continued to experience with their controversial Steelhead program. Elements within the Canadian government began quietly searching for alternatives to the program that would enable them to deploy a reliable anti-supers capacity. Their search led them into informational discussions with representatives from PRIMUS, discussions that slowly became more exploratory.

 

The outcome of those explorations was the first draft of what was eventually the PRIMUS Treaty. The U.S. and Canada were the first (and so far only) signatories to the Treaty, but other nations have expressed interest.

 

Treaty Provisions

 

The PRIMUS Treaty establishes PRIMUS as an international treaty organization akin to NATO (though completely separate from the older military treaty organization). Signatory nations agree to allow PRIMUS to establish and maintain bases, deploy personnel, and perform law enforcement duties within their territory. In return, each signatory is allowed/required to appoint a National Director to serve on the PRIMUS Directorate, which gives each signatory direct visibility into and authority over PRIMUS operations both in general and in their own territory in particular.

 

(Organizational structure, both operational and administrative, still to come.)

well done pergerine