cthia wrote:More of the following POV would be most welcome. Or if someone could be so kindly to point me to the archives if've just misplaced my copy of the memo.
What was the name of the planet? What is the final resolution of said planet? What percentage of the population was the seven billion? What two navies were fighting?
The Eridani Edict is a significant part of the series, ever looming in the background or in a cloud. As a reader, I've always wanted to know more. We are given much of the what and even more of the cure, but little of the cause - the history.The Epsilon Eridani Incident was the incident that led to the creation of the Eridani Edict.
During a military conflict in the middle of the 2nd Millenium PD, a Solarian League-member world in the Epsilon Eridani System suffered a massive planetary bombardment by enemy forces which resulted in the death of over seven billion people. As a consequence, the Solarian League ruled that any star nation bombarding civilians on planetary surfaces without warning and military reason would face severe punishment through the Solarian Navy. (HH8) -wiki
Georg J. Smith wrote:Not only that, but which were systems that were punished by the SLN for Eridani Edict violations?
Yes, what he said.
Can we assume that the bombardments were not nuclear?