Annihilation Safety And Proliferation Law
Annihilation power is too potent to be treated as an ordinary industrial commodity. Even when used for legitimate transport and field engineering, it sits close to the edge of civilization-ending misuse.
Core Legal Questions
- who may operate antimatter foundries
- how much antimatter stock a private actor may legally possess
- what safety standards transport casks must meet
- whether antimatter reserve sites are civilian or strategic military assets
- when interdiction becomes lawful
Why Regulation Exists
The risk is not only explosion in the crude old sense. The deeper problem is concentrated energy release, containment failure, black-market diversion, and use as strategic coercion.
Canon Default
- antimatter production is heavily licensed
- reserve storage is closely monitored
- transport routes are controlled
- illegal antimatter possession is treated as a high-order security threat