>>6324830>>6324844>"destabilise Russia...?"At the United Nations conference, the ARTEMIS ACCORDS DELEGATE congratulates you on your recent Orbital Datacentre launch, and also coyly celebrates your release of the arrested SPACE MERCENARIES. In fact, she claims that she had a hand in securing their swift return... and furthermore, you owe her, because didn't she provide you with the original plans and technology transfer for your NUCLEAR THERMAL ROCKET back during her DEFENSE LOBBYIST days?
But on the subject of nuclear rockets, her lovely and vivacious face hardens a little, and she explains that there is in fact one other rogue nation who possesses this prohibited space technology - one nation that constantly acts to contravene the International RULES BASED ORDER, and flagrantly seeks to annex, invade and threaten other countries at will. This country is also responsible for numerous nuclear calamities and mishaps in the past - for example, the 1977 Kosmos 954 satellite, part of a secret military RORSAT maritime surveillance program, a nuclear reactor equipped satellite, which lost control and broke apart on re-entry, scattering radioactive debris over a 600 km path along the Great Slave Lake territory of Western Canada - with a single piece of this debris exhibiting a dose of 1.1 sieverts per hour, enough to ensure fatality with a handful of hours. Yet this Kosmos 954 incident was by no means the last or only catastrophe - in 2008, the Kosmos 1818 satellite powered by a TOPAZ 1 reactor producing electricity via a thermionic converter, began leaking liquid coolant sodium-potassium metal, and subsequently cracked due to thermal stresses inducing fragmentation and over 30 pieces of space debris. This behaviour is so irresponsible, so outrageous! Only the fortunate and timely warning and constant vigilant monitoring of the United States Space Surveillance Network averted further disaster...
