[text] - UN: Etrepa- **Judgement Required**

[corpse_soldier]

Attention, citizens.

The suspected criminal has been captured and detained, with the assistance of Citizen Hawke, and Citizen Rogers. She is being held under a charge of larceny.

I am keeping armed guard over the suspect, but am presently refraining from taking any punitive action. My own capabilities suggest the guilt of the suspect, however - understanding there is no clearly established legitimate political authority - I turn to the camp-citizenry for the question of how best to practice justice.

We therefore require corroboration from others capable of the necessary interrogation techniques, to discern the truth of the matter. With no material evidence, the contents of the suspect's mind - her thoughts and memories - are the only conclusive source of proof. Luckily, I believe we have several citizens capable of such an inquiry.

There is also the larger question of standards of conduct, rule of law and expectations of propriety which are not well established. This is as good a time as any to seek consensus on the matter.

May Justice and its flower, Peace, be well served.

Comments

[bailedontheempire]

We've been attempting to find a consensus on the matter of law for four years now.

[corpse_soldier]

Begging your indulgence, citizen, but there is a literal world of difference between ship-board law and planetary law. Now is precisely the time to broach the topic again.

I assume from your phrasing that there has been little progress thus far?

[bailedontheempire]

The challenge here is the same as ever. Everyone is accustomed to a different system of laws and no one actually has any authority over anyone else. It makes it remarkably difficult to reach any sort of consensus on the matter.

[corpse_soldier]

Then our first step should be to establish provisional political authority.

While I am unfit for such authority myself, I am long familiar with the practice of justice across many diverse peoples of differing customs.

[Which is to say, she was a tool of conquest for a culturally assimilative interstellar empire. But that's just a matter of semantics.]

Whom might you nominate as a camp magistrate? Or do you consider no one fit to the task?

[text - un: longinface]

[tongueamok]

There's been a crime? It's not another murder, is it?

[He's been missing for a month, and therefore missed all of this. Forgive him.]

[corpse_soldier]

Nothing so serious. A suspected thief.

But no injustice is too small to deserve remedy.

[tongueamok]

That is true. Someone has to keep the peace around here.

Has some kind of group been set up for that? The Security branch, perhaps?

[corpse_soldier]

Citizen Black and I have done our best to track down and detain miscreants, but we still lack the legitimating authority necessary to render proper judgment. Hence this posting.

I am glad that our concerns are shared.

[coldshot]

so you're just going to open up her head?

[corpse_soldier]

Not physically, no. But I intend to facilitate the necessary interrogation, with a witness present, as is proper.

[coldshot]

requesting permission to verify the security of the prisoner and act as witness

[corpse_soldier]

If you can secure her consent, citizen, then I have no grounds for objection.

UN: fleetside

[hairrands]

Your going to dig inside some lady's head for stealing something
Why not just throw her in stocks for a while so we can throw rotting meat at her
Consider it a warning next time the hands get chopped off

[corpse_soldier]

Punitive mutilation is an uncivilized practice.

If the suspect is found guilty, then she should simply be re-educated.

There is no need to harm or humiliate her.

[hairrands]

Whose gone to educate her

[corpse_soldier]

Someone with the necessary skills, if they can be found.

It is simply a matter of making the thought of theft so unpleasant, that the subject avoids any future misbehavior.

[starspangled]

Maybe someone else should be in charge of her for awhile. You're a little close to the situation.

text. (un: CHAMPOIN.)

[queasycrow]

seconded
i nominate the blonde muscly one for dogsitting duty

[corpse_soldier]

I have confirmed the change of guard.

We still require an interrogator. A lengthy detainment without resolution would be highly improper.

[starspangled]

It's Steve. And I don't think we need to resort to name-calling.

[corpse_soldier]

Very well. Please come to the shouting rock so that you may relieve me of duty.

Be advised, a concerned citizen will be arriving shortly to apply as witness for the suspect's interrogation. Please see that she does not act improperly.

[starspangled]

I'm in route. And I'm sure everyone will behave just fine.

What exactly will the interrogation entail?

[un: hotdamn]

[circumitus]

[Rey is skeptical of this whole thing. Ideally, she'd rather play neutral party to all of this and not get involved, even if she was formerly SEC. It just doesn't sit right with her.]

what exactly was being stolen?

[corpse_soldier]

That has yet to be determined, citizen.

Do you have any training as an interrogator? You could help us resolve the question.

[circumitus]

you're detaining someone for theft before you're even certain what's even been taken?

what evidence do you have that a crime has been committed? you're expecting us to just take your word for it?

not going to interrogate someone before knowing who the person evidently appointing themselves as judge is.