Omega Laws

The Omega Laws are those laws that have been enacted to monitor the use of any weapon of mass destruction, temporal laws or classified orders deemed for the security of the Interstellar Coalition that can not be made known for the Coalition public at large. All Omega Laws are required to be made public knowledge 50-years post their enaction, regardless if the law is still in effect and subject to judicial review.

Laws

 * ω160: Classified general order and requires the commanding officer of a starship to immediately inform Coalition Fleet Command if an Omega molecule has been detected. This law supersedes all other standing orders and general directives and dictates that once the molecule has been detected the primary goal is to locate and destroy the molecule by any means possible.
 * ω161: Classified general order and requires the commanding officer of a starship to immediately inform Coalition Fleet Command if a Mass Relay has been discovered. This law supersedes all other standing orders and general directives and dictates that once the Relay has been detected the primary goal is to locate, secure and deactivate the device, if impossible, to destroy the artifact by any means possible.


 * ω275: It is illegal for an individual to see their future death. Any found guilty of this crime are subject to immediate execution without trial.
 * ω754: Time travel can only be used to study the past, any attempt to view the future will result in arrest.
 * ω778: Time travel or alteration of the temporal state of the universe is strictly forbidden in all situations.
 * ω893: Large kinetic impactors, such as asteroid drops or de-orbited space stations are forbidden as a use of planetary bombardment are considered a war crime for use.
 * ω910: Use of weapons of planetary destruction is only allowable in situations where immediate action will result in loss of life numbering into tens of millions and is only allowable with the approval of the entire command staff of a vessel. Coercion or blackmail are considered a court martial offense.
 * ω911: Use of weapons of stellar destruction is only allowable in situations of where immediate action will result in loss of life numbering into tens of billions and is only allowable with the approval of three admiral level officers.
 * ω957: Large energy-burst weapons such as nuclear or antimatter warheads are not to be detonated within five hundred thousand kilometers of a populated world. Intentional detonation is considered a war crime and can face immediate execution following a civilian trial.
 * ω1049: Uncontrolled self-replicating weapons, such as nanotechnology, viral or bacteriological organisms, "Von Neumann devices", and destructive computer viruses are illegal. Von Neumann exploration probes however are allowed if they have a 'set' level of replications.