Lebanon Accords

Signed in 1978, the Lebanon Accords were an international treaty in which all forms of artificially intelligent unmanned weapons-enabled drones were banned, and all research into fields that might relate therein was put up for review. This Accord was passed by majority vote in a secret session of the United Nations Security Council, following the recommendation of the United Nations Evolutionary Council, after its review of the incident known as The New York Blackout of 1977, in which an alien probe was inadvertently activated and crashed the New York electrical grid, in an attempt to assimilate with the technology of the time.

During this incident, an automatic probe designed by a precursor agency to ECHELON was sent into the tunnels where the Cade nano-construct was found and assimilated. It would proceed to attempt the assimilation of all of the probes until it was stopped by the efforts of the Guild of Superheroes, at the peak of their career.

After ratification, the representative from Lebanon would officially sponsor the Accord, thus giving it its name.