Fiction:United Persan Descendants/Zadkiel Conventions

The Zadkiel Conventions is a serious of rules that UPD fallows in war against the vast majority of their foes, with special exemptions being made for certain opponents. The Zadkiel Conventions were first signed on the planet Zadkiel after the as a means to maintain a moral stance in warfare, but not to reduce their flexibility when fighting the foe.

Section Alpha

 * Deals with the use of certain weapon types.
 * Article Alpha I - Forbids the use of fallout generating nuclear weapons within 75,000 kilometers of a civilian area. Also forbids the use of any Zero Fallout Fusion weapon exceeding 44 tons of TNT and any exceeding 2.5 tons within blast radius of a civilization area.
 * Article Alpha II - Forbids the use of chemical as well as toxic and/or infectious biological weapons.

Section Beta

 * Deals with legitimate means of combat.
 * Article Beta I - Forbids the use of orbital bombardment except on military target that are not anywhere near civilian areas.
 * Article Beta II - Disavows combat in cities unless a key military or political target is located within and forbids combat against civilian targets.

Section Gamma

 * Deals with legitimate and illegitimate targets.
 * Article Gamma I - Forbids firing on surrendering targets, those too wounded to fight back, and those seeking truce and to negotiate.
 * Article Gamma II - Forbids attacking medical facilities.
 * Article Gamma III - Defines illegitimate targets as civilians, medical personnel, combatants unable to fight back, reporters and photographers, peacekeepers, law enforcement officers, and surrendering enemies. However allows for soldiers to defend themselves against any hostile and violent illegitimate target.
 * Article Gamma IV - Defines legitimate targets as logistic officers, politicians, enlisted soldiers, armed vehicle crews, pilots of armed aircraft, military starship crews, mercenaries, and military commanders. However emphasizes taking logistics officers, politicians, and commanders as prisoners over killing them.

Section Delta

 * Deals with appropriate treatment of prisoners, civilians, the wounded, etc.
 * Article Delta I - Grants safe passage under truce or for fleeing civilians.
 * Article Delta II - Determines that those to injured or sick to fight back will be given medical attention if possible in sanitary conditions regardless the UPD's our own, ally, or enemy. Though that the UPD's own troops and allies should come first unless their injuries are none life threatening.
 * Article Delta III - Allows for the occupation of medical facilities while forbidding preventing or hampering the medical staffs ability to tend to the wounded.
 * Article Delta IV - Forbids the harassment of civilians, looting, rape, or abusing them in anyway.
 * Article Delta V - Determines that all prisoners of war must be given a clean cell with a bed, place to dispose of waste, and a meal that meets their nutritional needs daily.
 * Article Delta VI - Determines that after peace as been declared(if the former enemy is willing) all POWs from the enemies side back to them if they do the same for the UPD. If not, the UPD will only release a number equivalent to that which the enemy releases in return.

Partial Exemptions

 * Enemies deemed dangerous and dishonorable enough to be exempt from Article Alpha I and article Beta I.

Total Exemptions

 * Enemies deemed dangerous and dishonorable enough to be exempt from all sections and articles there in.