Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20150427084942/@comment-24891101-20150512231616

Alright. Thank you.

It's not a sufficiently touchy issue that world war would even be in the cards. There is no casus belli for anyone to attack Atlas, the country with the largest and most advanced standing army on the planet.

There is no reason for the project to be shitcanned. There's no indication that this sort of research is illegal under international law. And why and who would mistrust to disassemble her? Figuring out what went wrong would involve going through her logs. This would be part of the investigation. If you think a nation will object to the theoretical human rights abuse, there's nothing they can do or would do. If she's property, they can have no objection. If she's a person, then she's a suspected terrorist, however coerced they determine her to be ultimately. And she's subject to Atlesian military justice anyway.

And nothing's stopping Atlas from whisking her way; fait accompli. After the rampage, the first on the scene are part of Ironwood's command, who have legal jurisdiction, who would secure the Atlesian military secret.

And a blunder while testing (precipitated by action of a terrorist organization, no less, which would come out in the investigation) would not destroy the project. It's a public debacle and international incident, of course, and Atlas gets egg on its face, having to expend quite a bit of political capital to smooth things over, but the termination of a foreign nation's military projects (which incidentally is a scientific holy grail), when there are no laws about it is not something that could be demanded by an international body. The most would be a promise to up their data security and not do public testing like this.