Relic Arms Reduction Treaty

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The Relic Arms Reduction Treaty (遗迹武器限制条约) is an agreement made between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1981 in order to stop the adverse impacts of Relic Technology research on the world's sanitary situation.

In early 1976, the Americans discovered a major hurdle to Relic Technology development: during the "Lady liberty" (自由女神) Relic experiments, a test subject died of ELID for the first time. They had previously discovered the disease during their experimental Collapse Fluid bombing campaigns in North Vietnam in 1969, with over 10,000 known cases. The Soviets also realized the implications of Collapse contamination after deploying Pikes in Afghanistan in January 1981, causing ELID cases to appear in Central Asia and the Middle East. As it became clear that maintenance and usage of Relic weapons was already causing health issues at massive scales, the US and the Soviet Union entered talks to prevent Relic weapons escalation.

Americans and Soviets signed the Treaty in 1981, disclosing all of their Relic weapon stockpiles and promising to destroy or decommission the Relic weapons they had amassed. With bilateral talks opened by the threat of assured mutual destruction, Yuri Andropov and Ronald Reagan signed the Geneva Convention (日内瓦公报) on 1st July 1983, ending 35 years of simmering conflict.

Expunged lore

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In the original version of the first Confidential Files, the Treaty is called Dresden Accords (德累斯顿条约).

During the Cold war, the rate of ELID infections was growing rapidly with the intensity of relics research, as more people were exposed to the radiations from the Collapse Fluid contained in the relics sites. The disease was incurable with the current technology, and no techniques to protect against it existed due to a lack of comprehension of its vectors (Weight Bearing platforms would not appear until 2012). There had been an estimated 150,000 ELID infections worldwide between the first documented case in 1976 and 1980, with about 10,000 becoming ELID infected. 50,000 new cases had appeared a year later, with a higher percentage of infected and new mutation forms. High variance in infection conditions and combat data rendered global studies useless. Countries started to create special units dedicated to manage ELID cases, like the Chinese Special Circumstances Armed Police Force, but infection rate of these agents was high.

By 1981 the growth rate was deemed too dangerous both by the West and the East. With mediation from the Vatican and World Health Organization, the Accords were signed on 3 November 1981. Both parties agreed to stop relics research effort for the time being, to dismantle currently deployed relics weapons like Soviet Pikes, and to work toward a vaccine for ELID, with research debuting on 1983 and eventually reducing the number of infection cases. The Soviet gulag experimental installations in the Falkland Islands also passed under the United Nations Medical Research Institute as part of the Accords. The American ARPA recognized the experimental use of relics technology during the Vietnam War in exchange for Soviet data on Pikes.

The Accords would later be expanded into international collaboration on relics technology, leading to the formation of the United Nations Relic Science Agency and the GAVIRUL Reproduction Projects.