Audacity
"It goes against a number of treaties and international customary law which already apply to the entire universe".
I don't know about that, really.
Maybe I've been watching/reading too much science fiction, but it seems to *me* that the only audacious thing going on is the author's assumption that any laws in existence today apply, in any meaningful sense of the word, to any part of the universe past Earth orbit... Akin to, say, a Pharaoh deeding the sun to his favourite son, etc.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
