Thread:ProfDraco2/@comment-24588058-20190728195411/@comment-5782071-20190729185633

They didn't punish Artie for using the Astrolabe to save the Warehouse (Mrs. F said she'd do the same, on top of that), and if the world was destroyed, so would the WH, so I doubt they wouldn't allow artifacts to be used in such catastrophic scenarios - if they didn't already have plans, the Sykes bomb would have motivated them to do so, I think.

They were allowed to try and look for an artifact to reconstitute the Chiense Orchid, which would have wiped out a majority of the Earth's population, they just didn't have one on hand (which surprises me...), so it does have precedence in canon to an extent.