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Section D

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Publishing date: January 1, 2221 AD (Axelon Main Timeframe)

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DET Nova

DMTP

The Dark Matter Tracking Program was an attempt to map out three things:

The interstellar medium in Known Space, allowing for better commerce speeds;
The presence of dwarfs and gas giants in Known Space, thus allowing for greater settlement and easier commerce;
The presence, if any, of 'dark matter' and other explanations for the difficulty in calculating the mass of the Galaxy accurately.

It was quite successful in its first goal, marginally successful in the third but only vaguely useful in the third.

One quite remarkable thing which the DMTP discovered was the Artifact, an object whose nature and existence are still a source of puzzlement.

Among other things, the DMTP instituted a coding system used to classify planets which is now standard throughout Known Space.

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Daewoo

Daikoku

Dali Republic

Dardanelles

Dark Matter Tracking Program

Please see the DMTP, above.

Deimos

Devi

Dharma

Ding Huilong

Ding Huilong was one of the first space navy admirals to rebel against his superiors. He began in the service of the LSN, switched sides to the ISC when it declared itself independent, then declared himself independent of it in turn when he (reportedly) saw that the ISC was doomed to failure. This was effectively the cause of the Fuxing War. Some consider him a misunderstood saint, but for most of posterity, he was only another megalomaniac. He was eventually captured by the ISC, tortured for conspiracy, mutiny, genocide and a host of other crimes, not all of which were actually proven.

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Dneister

Document of War

The Document of War system was established by the LSN in 2127 to prevent (as the LSN President of the time, Lisa Strauss, put it) "the uncontrolled and mindless destruction of sovereign states' property and people." Basically, under this system, member-nations of the LSN cannot engage in full-fledged war unless all sides concerned sign a Document of War. Such a Document, at a minimum, must specify the combatants' names. Provisions have since been made for specifying the length of the war, types of weapons allowed, allowance for allies' support and other such considerations. All sides concerned must strictly obey the Document as signed or risk invasion of their territory and removal of their government by LSN forces.

The system is strangely ironic in many ways, not least of which being that it is a way to allow war rather than prevent it. However, since its establishment, the system has in fact prevented many small inter-regional conflicts from erupting, and has kept several full-scale wars to the minimum possible scale, as well as prevented the spillage of such conflicts over into neutral territory. Many have joked that the Document of War system is somewhat akin to the establishment of formal divorce proceedings among couples -- in other words, a government-sponsored recognition that, sometimes, nations cannot peacefully co-habitate. Many states have campaigned for the dissolution of the system, largely on the basis of arguments about humanitarian concerns or national sovereignty, but the .

One omission from the Document of War system is any provision for limitation of espionage or terrorism (although these may be specified as side-bars of a full-scale war, no Documents are required for espionage or terrorism alone). Several members of the LSN have pushed for the specification of such limitations, but most LSN members will provately admit that such action would, in fact, limit national sovereignty too much to be stomached.

Perhaps the biggest crisis of the Document of War system to date was in the early 2180's. A war emerged between the Congo Republic and Uganda in 2180, but the Congolese forces were summarily crushed by LSN forces when Uganda asserted that Uganda had signed no Document and was an innocent victim of foreign aggression. At this time, Documents were considered strong elements of national sovereignty, and as such were not maintained in the LSN central records, but rather kept by the nations concerned themselves. The Congolese-Ugandan war ended swiftly under LSN intervention against the Congo Republic, and Uganda emerged quite well-off. However, Congolese assertions that Uganda had in fact signed a Document, and had then destroyed all traces of it (through infotage) when the war began to go badly, were proven right within a year. LSN troops quickly left the Congo Republic and proceeded to depose the Ugandan government. Since this time, all Documents of War have been filed centrally in the LSN; filing within national infosystems, while recommended, is neither required nor solely sufficient for open warfare.

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Donald

Dravidia

Dunkelbote

Durbantown

Durga

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