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Martian Defence Initiative
Headquarters: Valinon Members: 11 members Type: Mutual Defence Forum: none

The Martian Defence Initiative, or MDI, was formed to replace the less effective MIDAS-II alliance, which, due to inactivity and several problems in the actual traty text, had become ineffective at serving its intended purpose of protecting Mars from threats, and improving relations between member nations in the hope of creating a stable and peaceful Mars.

History

Valinon and Pilon in particular were responsible for organizing the conference hosted in Mizar 3 where the treaty text for this new alliance was drawn up. Other people who sent representatives included Kajal, Eniqcir, Tiburon, Mangala, Sunset, Pilon, Zero-One, Tarasovka, Weyr, and Wazzu. Though origanally called MIDAS-III, the treaty's name was quickly replaced with MDI. During the conference after quite alot of discussion a draft was finally approved and the MDI was formed.

Charter Text

Charter of the Mars Defence Initiative Being the First Resolution of the Third Summit for Martian Interplanetary Defense And Security (MIDAS)

Article I: Purpose

To further the goals expressed in the preamble of the charter, the Mars Defence Initiative shall exist to secure the national defence of each of its member states; combating terrorism against the citizens and governments of its member states; and to facilitate diplomacy among member states, between member states and other nations and organizations, and between itself and other nations and organizations.

Article II: Structure

Section 1: The main body of the Mars Defence Initiative shall consist of the Assembly of Allied States, with each delegation consisting of two representatives (one military and one civilian) from each member state.

Sub-Section A: Each nation shall get one vote in all matters brought before the Assembly of Allied States, and matters brought before the brought before the Assembly of Allied States shall be decided by a simple majority vote.

Sub-Section B: Any nation may bring any matter pertaining to the issues defined in Article I of this Charter to the Assembly of Allied States at any time.

Section 2: The decision agreed upon by the Assembly of Allied States shall be carried out by each individual member state.

Section 3: The Mars Defence Initiative shall have special charter provisions that do not require a vote by the Assembly of Allied States

Sub-Section A: If any member state is attacked or invaded by an outside nation, the member nation may chose to invoke the common defense provision of Article III, stating that an attack against any member state is considered an armed attack against all member states

Sub-Section B: No member state shall be permitted to attack or invade another member state’s assets. Disobedience of this provision shall result in the immediate expulsion of the offending member state from the alliance. The member states of the Mars Defence Initiative shall also act to remove all threats to its member in accordance with Article V, Section 2.

Article III: Common Defence

Section 1: The member states agree than an armed attack against one or more of them on Mars shall be considered an attack against all member states and consequently agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, the attacked member state or member states shall have the right to invoke the common defense clause.

Section 2: Should the common defence clause be invoked, each member state will assist the member state or member states attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other member states, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed forces, to restore and maintain the security of the Martian area.

Section 3: Should one or more signatories to the present treaty initiate an armed attack against a third party or parties and, thus, provide the attacked member state or member states with a casus belli, the belligerent members of the Mars Defence Initiative shall be stripped of the right to invoke the common defence clause.

Article IV: Membership

Section 1: The parties present at the Mizar Conference for Martian Interplanetary Defense and Security that choose to sign the present Charter shall become the Founding Members upon the ratification of the present Charter by their national governments in accordance with their national laws.

Section 2: A member state may invite any other state with Martian holdings in a position to further the principles of this Alliance and to contribute to the security of the Martian area to accede to the Mars Defence Initiative.

Section 3: New memberships shall be subject to a qualified majority vote of the Assembly of Allied States. The interested parties shall become full members upon the acceptance by the Assembly of Allied States and the ratification of the treaty by their respective national governments.

Article V: Expulsion Clauses

Section 1: The member states or member states of the Mars Defence Initiative that do not fulfill their obligations in front of the alliance or violate the spirit and principles of the present charter shall be subject to expulsion by a vote of the Assembly of Allied States.

Section 2: The member state of the Mars Defence Initiative that engaged in an attack against another member state shall be immediately expelled from the Alliance. Furthermore, the members of the Alliance, individually or the Alliance as a whole, shall act to remove the threat to the attacked member state and take all appropriate actions to do so.

Article VI: Amendments and Statutes

Section 1: The Assembly of Allied States shall have the right to amend the present charter by unanimous vote of the member states.

Section 2: Statutes shall be made by the Assembly of Allied States in a majority vote to deal with elements of the Alliance’s activities that are not directly mentioned in the Charter. The Statutes shall be confined to the spirit and principles of the Charter and shall neither go beyond them nor violate them.

Article VII: Amendments to the Charter

Article VIII: Statutes of the Charter

Section 1: Statute on the Chancellor of the Alliance

Section 2: Statute on the Observer States

Signatories

William Chafee, Ambassador-General to Mars, the United Solaris Federation of Tiburon, on behalf of the United Solaris Federation of Tiburon
Galan Crzleídzí, United Celdr Empire of Eniqcir
Master Control Program, Queendom of Zero-One
Ilose Seiran, Federated Imperium of Kajal
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Grand Duchy of Tarasovka, High Duke Drajko Karadžiæ of Svarog and Ust-Nad-Nerloi
Duke Adrian Sterling, Duke of Valprietza, Her Imperial Majesty’s First Minister for Foreign Affairs
Greater People's Hegemony of Pilon
Dr. Jeffery Rander, Representative for the Dominion of Wazzu
Damien Charleston Black, Imperial Viceroy His Grace the Archduke of Roan
Chancellor Rheya Savitri, Chancellor of the Commonwealth of Martian City-States

MDI Headquarters

The MDI Headquarters are located in Goddard City, the second largest city of the Dominion of Mizar. With seventy-seven million inhabitants, is also one of the most modern, exclusive, and expensive cities in the entirety of the United Star Empire of Valinon.

The Solar Industrial Cartel constructed the headquarters compound for the Mars Defence Initiative with the core facilities being completed within a year of the initial contract being awarded to them.

During the first five weeks the Solar Industrial Cartel submitted proposal after proposal back to Alpha Centauri. Many are rejected; as the imperial government tries to accommodate both Valinor tastes in architecture (it is best to appease those who are footing the bill) and a more liberalized design intended to better appeal to the other members of the Initiative. Eventually, the design proposal of Ogyu Kei—of the Taggart Industries subsidiary of the SIC—is agreed upon.

Ogyu’s design proposal centered more on the modern, sweeping steel forms and free-form architecture that has been a larger force on Pholus, Yalta, Greenway, or in the treaty port of Agraria rather than the more conservative portions of Proxima I. The core of the Mars Defence Initiative compound is centered on the sweeping ascent of the Tower of the Assembly and at its base the Concourse of the Assembly. The Tower will hold the offices of the various envoys to the Initiative; secured conference rooms for the diplomats; planning rooms for the international coterie of officers that will act as adjutants to their civilian components; the various facilities needed for ambassadorial staffs; and in its upper levels the Chambers of the Assembly of Allied States.

The Concourse is an open structure designed to take full advantage of the display Goddard’s simulated environment has to offer. A massive main reception lobby is open to the public and houses several galleries that are used for public relations for the alliance on top of acting as the main entrance to the Tower and the core complex. It also has galleries opening to an exclusive zone of the beach now reserved for the MDI’s exclusive use.

Ogyu’s initial plan also calls for a host of outlying structures to be part of the compound, but the imperial government largely puts a hold on these, for the moment only interested in the construction of ambassadorial townhouses, staff dormitories, and contracting out a convenience concourse to service the needs of the ambassadors, the military adjutants, and their staffs.

Corleigh Armaments and Development Corporation and the Cross Applied Security Group, traditional contractors to the government, were given the compound’s parameters and given orders to jointly design a full security parameter and system for the compound. The Conclave of Sentient Intelligences was asked to submit a list of possible SIs to be put on permanent retainer to the compound. Meanwhile the Reichswehr engineer corps designed redundant power and environmental regulation systems while the elite arm of the Reichswehr, the specially trained Emergency Response Teams (ERTs) that protect the Star Empire’s embassies, consulates, and their personnel formed a new command to prepare to deal with MDI security.

With the initial elements in place, the Star Empire forwarded information regarding the compound to the other members and put out offers for the other member states to put forth additional contributions to the new home of the Mars Defence Initiative.

Pilon's Peoples Corp, or PPC, won the Pilonese contract to construct an underwater level beneath the facility and connect the Grand Casino and the greater Pilonese trade port to the MDI Compound via Maglevs, which was completed in a timely basis.

Description of the MDI Compound

The MDI compound includes the Tower of the Assembly, the Concourse of the Assembly, and all proposed outer structures although only four are being constructed for the present.
Tower of the Assembly

The Tower of the Assembly serves as the central hub for the Initiative compound. It houses the Chambers of the Assembly, the Assembly Garden, conference rooms for the Assembly delegates, offices for both ambassadors and military adjutants, secured rooms for meetings between military adjutants, and is largely serviced by a central elevator block accessible from the Concourse of the Assembly and the main reception lobby.

Chambers of the Assembly of Allied States
The Chambers of the Assembly of Allied States are located in the upper levels of the Tower of the Assembly and are essentially the heart of the MDI compound. With an eye for expansion of the alliance, the Chambers are built with an expanded alliance in mine—although the outermost areas will be reserved for observers or partner states representatives. The Chambers also have a facility dedicated to translation and media reporting services located directly below the Chambers and linked via media feeds (Assembly Interpreter and Media Facility).

While most of the Tower can be accessed via the centrally located elevator area, the upper levels reserved for the use of the Assembly are different. The central elevator block delivers to a small concourse that has its own security checkpoint and is open to the Assembly Garden (Assembly Garden Shot). Another, smaller, local elevator block allows for access to the Grand Hall of the Assembly that has a walkway around the Assembly Garden before leading to the Chambers proper.

Concourse of the Assembly

The Concourse of the Assembly dominates the base of the Tower of the Assembly and is where the areas of the compound more open toward public access are located. Foremost among these is the main reception lobby of the Concourse (Main Entrance to the Lobby and Concourse). The Concourse is centered on the central elevator block that services the Tower and is watched over by the primary security checkpoint and registration point for the Tower. The Concourse is also home to various rooms designed to present the public face of the Initiative, including the Mars Gallery (a map that displays all operations and missions being undertaken by the Initiative as well as the member states). The Concourse also opens to the Seaward Gallery that views the beach reserved for the MDI compound. Finally the upper levels are home to a small aerospace hanger designed to service aero-cars and small shuttles used by ambassadors, dignitaries, and adjutants to commute to the compound from the Goddard aerospace port (MDI Aerospace Hanger). This hanger also offers more direct access to the central elevator block, after passing another security checkpoint.

Conference Rooms
The conference rooms in the MDI compound are modeled after the Duma’s Warren facilities. Their primary purpose is to give the ambassadors and military adjutants of the Initiative a place to meet in private, and while being protected by the best security systems the member states can provide. Conference rooms are located in the Tower and are roughly divided into two categories of varying sizes: one with civilian-oriented meetings in mind and the other as a venue for the meetings between various military adjutants.

This is one example of a conference room for the ambassadors of the Initiative. The walls—indeed the entire nature of the room—are open to manipulation of the users and can be changed to show images relevant to the discussion, change the colors of the wall, or surround those present with a more appealing environment.

The military conference areas while more spartan are designed with an attention for all that may be necessary to coordinate join international military planning. They have access to holographic maps, full communication suites capable of encryption on MDI channels, combat information centers, and other relevant areas.
Ambassadorial Townhouses
The ambassadorial townhouses are designed to provide permanent living arrangements to the Initiative’s member states ambassadors and military adjutants to the MDI. They have room to house several individuals comfortable, and are also designed with an eye for the fact that it may become necessary to entertain various guests. Attached are a few images of parts of the townhouse.
Staff Dormitories

While the Initiative was designed to minimize bureaucracy as much as possible, it is inevitable that a concentration of ambassadors and military personnel will ultimate assembly their own relevant staffs of assistants and adjutants. With this in mind two identical buildings will be built to house staff members.

Red World Development Group Concourse
The Red World Development Group Concourse is operated by the Goddard-based Red World Development Group, which specializes in providing entertainment and restaurants. The RWD Group Concourse is located in close proximity to the dormitories and the townhouses, and features several convenience stores as well as a few cafes and restaurants. Currently it is the only privately-operated building within the MDI compound.


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