>>6315016>Raid Africa...?>SPACE MERCENARIES who travel through time, raiding the past for the weapons of the future?You debate a Libya raid with your space mercenaries, who are of the opinion that it is likely not to yield encouraging results (the lack of missiles probably being a contributor to why Gaddafi himself was overthrown)
However, the SPACE MERCENARY believes that given your recent research into RAILGUNs and Nuclear Thermal Rockets (NTR), a more promising course of action has revealed itself...
A railgun installed on a space platform would require a tremendous amount of power, likely necessitating a nuclear thermal reactor, capable of generating rocket engine thrust but also bimodal operation, powering spacecraft onboard electrical systems.
But to secure a nuclear thermal rocket (NTR), you need uranium - where to procure this, without drawing the attention of international authorities with your increasingly rogue Non-State Threat Actor like behaviour?
The space mercenary draws your attention to a famous Israeli film producer named Arnon Milchan, founder of New Regency Productions, famous throughout Hollywood for over 130 films: Fight Club, Heat, The Big Short... even Ad Astra
>>6314720 Arnon Milchan was bigger than even Harvey Weinstein.
However, what is less well known is Arnon Milchan's acknowledgement of his role in arms dealing during apartheid South Africa. In the 1960s, Milchan was inducted into Lekem (also known as LAKAM) the Israeli Bureau Of Scientific Research. Milchan's role was to support the apartheid regime in South Africa, in return for obtaining uranium from the continent for the Israeli nuclear program.
There is an opportunity here - as President Trump is fond of reminding everyone, the two most unmentionable words that must never, ever be used both begin with the letter N: NUKEs and Nig- Nigeriens?
At the SOMAIR mine in northern Niger, there is a stockpile of 1570 tons of uranium under Niger's military government after it appropriated a 63% stake from the French state owned Orano, a nuclear fuel provider, following from a 2023 coup d'etat. SOPAMIN Société du patrimoine des mines du Niger and the Niger Prime Minister accuses foreign firms of decades of exploitation, bringing only misery, pollution, rebellion, corruption and desolation to Nigeriens whilst enriching France. In 2025 Sept 26, the World Bank issued an ICSID ruling prohibiting the Niger military government from trading this stockpile; Niger is contemplating selling the uranium, which was worth USD270m in 2025, to buyers including Turkey, Russia and Iran.
