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= Jurisdiction =
Space Law is a collection of rules and regulations enacted by Nanotrasen which has oversight through [[Administrators#What_Do_Admins_Do?|CentCom]] and is enforced by the [[Security Officer|Security Officers]] on the station. Space Law applies to all ranks and positions on station, from the lowliest [[Assistant]] to the highest [[Captain]], all are equal under the eyes of the Law and ultimately answer to it.  
Within Nanotrasen, vessels operate under abbreviated Space Law. All crew, passengers, and visitors aboard a Nanotrasen vessel or in the employ of Nanotrasen are beholden to this law and expected to follow it. Common sense knowledge should be sufficient to not break the law, the details are of particular importance to Security and Command.


= Captain's Authority =
It is highly recommended to read the '''[[Standard Operating Procedure|Standard Operating Procedures]]''' and specifically the following parts:
The Captain of a Nanotrasen vessel ultimately decides on how and when Space Law is applied, although they are held accountable for their actions by their crew. Afforded to them are both the right to execute members of the crew and pardon crimes, as well the ability to hire, fire, demote, or promote crew members at will.
*[[Standard_Operating_Procedure#Jurisdiction|Jurisdiction]]
*[[Standard_Operating_Procedure#Sentencing|Sentencing]]
*[[Standard_Operating_Procedure#Trial_Procedure|Trial Procedures]]
*[[Standard_Operating_Procedure#Treatment_of_Prisoners|Treatment of Prisoners]]
*[[Standard_Operating_Procedure#Paroles_and_Pardons|Paroles and Pardons]]
*[[Standard_Operating_Procedure#Synthetics_and_Sophonts|Synthetics and Sophonts]]


=== Execution Privileges ===
== Sentences ==
The Captain of a Nanotrasen vessel may perform executions without the need for a trial under certain circumstances. This means they have the authority to ''personally'' execute any member of their crew unless they're already in custody of Security. These circumstances would be threats to:
=== Capital ===
:*'''Execution''': Termination of the convict’s life.
::*Whenever any execution is performed, regardless of trial or not, a general announcement must be made detailing who was executed and for what reason.
::*The convict may select from one of four methods of execution, depending on availability: firing squad, lethal injection, electric shock, or asphyxiation. If the convict does not make a choice after being given ample opportunity, the sentencing officer or other relevant authority may select the method that is most appropriate. Convicts may request alternate methods of execution that may be approved or denied at the discretion of the individual passing the sentence.
::*The executed’s corpse must be burned, stored in the morgue, or processed by medical staff using the biomass reclaimer.
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:*'''Exfiltration''': Immediate retrieval of the convict via a CentComm, or GALPOL, dispatched transport.
::*The prisoner may be held in a temporary cell until the transport arrives.
::*If a transport cannot be arranged, default to other capital sentences.
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:*'''Decorporealisation''': Stripping the convict’s mind from their body into a more restricting form.
::*Soul crystals, golems, and cyborgs are all permissible forms.
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:*'''Permanent Brig, Permabrig, or Extended Confinement''': Placing the convict into the permanent brig until the end of the shift, where they are to be transported to Central Command for processing.
::*The convict has the same rights as any other prisoner within the permabrig, whether they arrived by transport or were sentenced to Extended confinement.


* '''Authority:''' Attempting or threatening to undermine the Captain's command, with the capabilities to do so, via illegal means.
=== Standard ===
* '''Command:''' Attempting or threatening to cause bodily harm to the Captain or a member of command while in the Captain's presence, and has the capability to do so.
:*'''Brigging''': Placing the convict into a temporary holding cell. See [[Standard_Operating_Procedure#Treatment_of_Prisoners|Treatment of Prisoners (SOP)]].
* '''Vessel:''' Attempting or threatening to cause physical damage to the vessel while in the Captain's presence, and has the capability to do so.
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:*'''Catch & Release''': Taking the convict to Security, processing them, searching them, and then releasing them. See [[Standard_Operating_Procedure#Jurisdiction|Jurisdiction (SOP)]].
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:*'''Demotion''': Downgrading the convict’s employment contract and revoking their access accordingly, with permission from or when ordered by the convict’s head of department. May be applied when the convict has committed a crime relating to their employment within their department or with NanoTrasen as a whole. See [[Company_Policy#Conduct_unbecoming|Conduct Unbecoming (Company Policy)]].
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:*'''Licence restriction''': Downgrading or suspending the convict’s armament licence and confiscating possessions accordingly. May be applied when the convict is guilty of possession or a crime involving a weapon they were lawfully permitted to carry.
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:*'''Mindbreaking''': Removal of the convict’s psionic power by use of mindbreaker toxin or any other means. May be applied when the convict is guilty of a crime in which they use psionics.


=== Mutiny ===
== Crime Modifiers ==
If the Captain is found, by a member or members of command staff, to be in violation of Space Law then they may start a lawful Mutiny. A Mutiny is defined as a coordinated effort to lawfully depose the Captain of a Nanotrasen vessel for committing unlawful acts. In the event of a Mutiny, loyalists are tasked with subduing the mutineers with non-lethal force, and should not resort to lethal measures even if ordered to by the Captain, except in acts of self-preservation.
Sentencing modifiers are to be applied by the sentencing officer, judge, or arbiter. Aggravating modifiers may not extend a sentence beyond the specified limit, while extenuating modifiers may not reduce a sentence below the specified limit.


* If the Mutiny is unsuccessful, only the head(s) who approved the Mutiny may receive an execution sentencing while all mutineers may be demoted and/or placed in Extended Confinement.
=== Aggravating ===
* If the Mutiny is successful, the head(s) who approved the Mutiny may select the new Captain. The new Captain would ultimately decide the fate of the old Captain.
:*'''Solicitation'''
:*: Any sophont found guilty of encouraging, bribing, requesting, or instructing someone to commit a crime, with the intent that the sophont being solicited commit the crime, will receive for the crimes they solicited in full.
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:*'''Accessory'''
:*: Any sophont found guilty of assisting in the commission of a crime, without participating in the crime itself, knowing that a crime will be, has been, or is being committed, will receive the sentence for the crimes in which they took part in full.
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:*'''Attempts'''
:*: Any sophont found guilty of attempting to commit a crime, with the intent to carry out that crime, will receive the sentence for the crimes they attempted in full.
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:*'''Conspiracy'''
:*: Any sophont found guilty of planning to commit a crime, with the intent to carry out that crime eventually, and having committed an overt act pursuant to that end, will receive the sentence for the crimes they conspired towards in full.
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:*'''Deadly weapon'''
:*: Any sophont found guilty of committing a crime, utilising any object used offensively for the purpose of inflicting mortal or great bodily harm, will receive an additional modifier of, at most, 150% of the original sentence.
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:*'''Aggravation'''
:*: Any sophont found guilty of committing a crime with reckless abandon, evident signs of lack of regret or remorse, or blatant disregard for potential collateral damage, will receive an additional modifier of, at most, 150% of the original sentence.
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:*'''Discriminatory intent'''
:*: Any sophont found guilty of committing a crime based fully or in part based on the victim or affected party’s appearance, gender, psionics, religion, ability/disability, place of origin or habitation, culture, or other immutable feature or quality, will receive an additional modifier of, at most,150% of the original sentence.
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:*'''Recidivism'''
:*: Any sophont convicted of the same criminal charge multiple times within one shift will receive an additional modifier of, at most, 200% of the original sentence.


When a Mutiny begins, the head(s) approving the Mutiny must send a message to admins to notify the admin staff of what is about to occur, although prior authorization is not required. If the Mutiny is called into action without a good roleplay reason, participants may risk being banned.
=== Extenuating ===
:*'''Cooperation'''
:*: Any sophont who shares actionable intelligence with the authorities, turns oneself in, testifies against accomplices, confesses to their crime, or otherwise aids the prosecution, may have their sentence reduced to no less than 50% of the original sentence.
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:*'''Dire Emergency'''
:*: Any sophont found to have committed a crime in the process of absolutely necessary and reasonable actions, taken with the intent to resolve or mitigate the effects of a dire emergency on one’s vessel or habitat, may have their sentence reduced by any amount, or completely waived.
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:*'''Self-Defence'''
:*: Any sophont found to have committed a crime or crimes in protection of oneself or another, and only to the necessary extent to avert a direct and imminent threat to the health and life of innocent persons, may have their sentence reduced by any amount, or completely waived.
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:*'''Good Behaviour'''
:*: Any convict who peacefully complies with the authorities, displays clear signs of remorse concerning the committed crime, and/or conducts themselves peacefully while imprisoned, may be paroled as outlined in the Standard Operating Procedures.


=== Pardons ===
== Crimes ==
The Captain of a Nanotrasen vessel may pardon members accused or sentenced for crimes if deemed in the best interest of the crew and vessel. Only misdemeanor and felony crimes may be pardoned. The Captain may be held legally responsible for criminal actions committed by those who they pardon. Pardons must be announced via the communications console whenever they are performed.
=== Capital Crimes ===


= Prosecution Policy =
{| style="text-align:center; background-color:#9933334D; width: 90%; border: 1px solid #000000;" cellspacing=0
== Legal Status ==
! style="background-color:#993333BF; width:20%; border: 1px solid #000000;" |Name
=== Security ===
! style="background-color:#993333BF; width:10%; border: 1px solid #000000;" |Time
Security is ''fully authorized'' to withhold a crewman at their discretion. The crewman ordered to answer to Security is obligated to do so, '''regardless of whether they consider its orders lawful or not.''' Potential grievances and suspicions of unlawful proceedings and maltreatment are to be directed up the Chain of Command and resolved judicially, enlisting legal counsel, if available.
! style="background-color:#993333BF; width:50%; border: 1px solid #000000;" |Description
 
|-
A person that is suspected of having committed a crime may be ''detained''. In detainment, the crewman is held on-site or moved to a safer, less crowded location, may be restrained at officer’s discretion and will remain as such for the time necessary for Security to determine the circumstances of the incident and whether to effect an arrest or not. A detainee may be either released or arrested.
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Murder}}Murder
 
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | Capital
An ''arrest'' will occur when a detainee is being charged with criminal acts. The charges have to be pressed by any member of Security or crew at large. Additionally, Head of Security, Captain, or - ''lacking either'' - any Head of Staff, may issue an arrest warrant with reasonable cause, taking ''full responsibility'' for the warrant being lawful. When arrested, the perpetrator is taken to Security for interrogation and processing.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To kill a sophont with malicious intent and premeditation.
 
Security holds an ''unrestricted'' weaponry license and may be authorized to use lethal force to the extent necessary to render opponents combat-ineffective while at a severe tactical disadvantage or under threat to the station as a whole.
 
=== Psychics ===
Psychics are, in terms of legal status, largely '''ungoverned''' by Space Law due to their inconsistent nature. Any statutes concerning psychic activity are designed to be not explicitly binding. As such, legal status of psychics remains almost entirely at the discretion of ranking officers aboard the station, who are authorized to employ ''any'' policy as desired to govern psychics, short of violating any other statute of Space Law.
 
=== Synthetics ===
All synthetic entities, including, but not limited to, robots, cyborgs and drones, issued by Nanotrasen, created by Nanotrasen employs or on board of a Nanotrasen vessel are considered property of Nanotrasen, regardless of their origin or cognitive status. To damage or destroy a synthetic is treated as damage of company property and persecuted accordingly.
 
=== Foreign Vessels ===
''None of the below provisions, or any other provisions of Space Law, apply to vessels under the flag of an [[Antagonist|organisation]] at war with Nanotrasen, parties that have attacked a Nanotrasen facility or vessels engaged in blatant criminal activity of a capital degree.''
 
The station is encouraged to allow non-hostile visitors permission to dock or otherwise come aboard during normal operating conditions. They may be searched upon arrival and escorted at discretion of Security or Captain. The visitor may request asylum, which is at Captain's discretion to decide, and they will be given as much or as little access throughout the vessel as Captain deems fit.
 
All visitors aboard a Nanotrasen vessel are subject to Space Law, and should a visitor break the law and flee aboard their own vessel, Security is authorized to board it in pursuit. Nanotrasen employs aboard a foreign vessel are subject to their laws and their policy.
 
If an individual commits a crime aboard a Nanotrasen station and then flees to an unaffiliated party's vessel, the commander of that vessel is authorized to grant of deny asylum. Foreign vessels' sovereignty must be observed and any decisions of their command to deny or restrict entry are to be respected.
 
== Pressing Charges ==
A person may be charged of a crime if and when it can be argued beyond a reasonable doubt to have committed an act in the nature and fashion as described by a particular criminal charge.
 
Multiple counts of one crime can be charged. For illegal actions against the station abroad, each incident separated by a reasonable period of inaction, lawful conduct, or another crime is interpreted as one count. For crimes directly bereaving a person (violent acts, theft of personal property etc.), the same applies in addition to ''each'' victim being one count.
 
Charges that are a direct escalation of one another in nature cannot be simultaneously held against the perpetrator if they pertain to the same incident ''and'' the same victim/item (if applicable). Then, only the most severe of these charges applies.
 
== Trial ==
In criminal prosecution, a trial cannot be requested when only Misdemeanor charges are being pressed. A trial may be requested by the defendant when Felony charges are being pressed, but are called to order '''at the discretion and ability''' of the potential Judge. If the defendant is accused of a Capital Crime, they are entitled to trial. Legal counsel ''is not required'' to stand trial.
 
The format of the trial is to be an '''Arbitration court hearing''', presided by a Judge that is typically Head of Security, Captain, or - ''lacking either'' - any Department Head. Should no Command be available but a trial needs to be held, it is permissible to grant a temporary promotion to a position of '''Head of Courtroom''', with the access and privileges equivalent to Head of Security, who shall preside the trial and shall be granted this commission for the time and purpose of holding the trial.
 
In this hearing, the Judge directly examines the defendant and a representative of the prosecution best familiar with the case to present their case on why the defendant should be cleared or convicted of their charges. The trial is expected to last '''''no longer than 15 minutes''''', with either party not being allowed longer than 5 minutes to present their case.
 
Extensions may only be requested with reason and are granted at discretion of the Judge. Conflict of Interest may only be applied when the Judge can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to obtain strictly ''personal'' gain from either verdict, or when the Prosecutor may be proven such gain from a Not Guilty verdict.
 
In the event that the defendant is held in contempt of court, the necessity of a trial may be waived and judgement may be passed by the Judge without a hearing.
 
Trials may also be held for civil disputes, requested by any crewman against any other, preferably presided by the Captain or Head of Personnel.
 
= Sentencing =
In sentencing a crime, it is recommended to defer to the Warden or Head of Security, however, any Security Officer and the Captain is authorized to pass a sentence. If ''none of either'' are available, any Department Head may pass a sentence.
 
The precise sentence is determined by the person passing the sentence and is at their discretion, though may be overruled by one higher up Chain of Command. They are encouraged to use common sense in weighing the punishment against the severity of each charge separately as it is being applied, taking into account the broader circumstances of the crime and the modifiers further below.
 
* In setting punishment, the charge with the highest minimum punishment is applied first (primary charge) by sentencing brig time anywhere from minimum to maximum of the primary charge, then every other charge sentenced applies at the minimum for each charge. (compounded charge).
* Punishments outside of brig time (mind break, mandatory counsel) cannot be applied partially, save for Demotion. If listed as Minimum, they must be applied, whether primary or compounded. If listed as Maximum, it is applied at discretion.
* If the total brig sentence would exceed 20 minutes, Security is ''fully authorized and recommended'' to upgrade the sentence to Extended Confinement, '''''regardless of any punishment limits.'''''
* Once the sentence commences, it must be concluded at or before the agreed time. The convict may be held responsible for any crime they commit while serving their sentence.
 
== Sentence Modifiers ==
When applying charges, certain circumstances can apply, altering the severity of the punishment. In the event such circumstances would result in release or Extended Confinement, the sentencing should be deferred to the ranking member of Security or Captain if at all possible.
 
=== Aggravating Circumstances ===
* '''Solicitation:''' Encouraging, bribing, requesting, or instructing someone to commit a crime, with the intent that the person being solicited commit the crime.
* '''Accessory:''' Assisting in the commission of a crime, without participating in the crime itself, knowing that a crime will be, has been, or is being committed.
* '''Attempts:''' Attempting to commit a crime, with the intent to carry out that crime.
* '''Conspiracy:''' Planning to commit a crime, with the intent to eventually carry out that crime.
* '''Recidivism:''' To be arrested, charged and convicted for criminal behavior multiple times within one shift.
* '''Aggravation:''' To commit a crime with reckless abandon, clear signs of lack of regret or remorse or with particularly severe implications for the community.
 
Solicitation, Accessory, Attempts, and Conspiracy are equivalent to the perpetrator actually committing the crime. Recidivism may be punished by significantly increasing overall brig time. Aggravation warrants more severe punishment on every charge where it applies.
 
=== Extenuating Circumstances ===
* '''Cooperation:''' Sharing actionable intelligence with the authorities, turning oneself in, confessing to crime.
* '''Self-Defense:''' The protection of oneself or another person to the necessary extent to avert a direct and imminent threat to health and life of an innocent.
* '''Good Behavior:''' Peaceful compliance with Security, clear signs of remorse concerning committed crime, peaceful conduct in brig.
* '''Dire Emergency:''' Committing a crime in the process of absolutely necessary and reasonable actions taken with the intent to resolve or mitigate a dire emergency on their vessel or habitat is not considered a crime.
 
Criteria for Self-Defense and Dire Emergency, which have the capacity to drop charges entirely, must be particularly strictly observed. Cooperation and Good Behavior should be rewarded with reduced sentence.
 
== Treatment Of Prisoners ==
Prisoners still have certain rights that must be upheld by law enforcement:
* Prisoners must be granted adequate medical care. They should also be proffered counseling if available.
* Prisoners must be provided access to the common radio channel '''so long as it is not abused'''. Command-level headsets and the security headset are ''not allowed'' for the prisoner to have.
* Prisoners must be granted clothing, food, water, shelter and safety. If the brig is no longer safe, confinement must be established in another location.
* Prisoners may request legal counsel, if available.
* Prisoners should be granted freedom of movement unless there is an undue risk to life and limb. Similarly, any prisoners held in Extended Confinement should not be confined to a solitary cell unless they pose a risk to life and limb.
* Visitation is allowed only for prisoners sentenced to Extended Confinement but only one individual can visit them every 20 minutes, a reason must be provided for the visit and the visitor must consent to a search of their belongings.
* Prisoners sentenced to execution via a trial may request the method of execution. These options are limited to spacing, electrocution, firing squad, or lethal injection.
 
=== Extended Confinement ===
Prisoners in Extended Confinement have certain rights but also more firm restrictions that must be upheld by law enforcement:
* Prisoners who repeatedly cause damage to their holding cell, to a degree that makes it unreasonable to hold prisoners and in an attempt to escape, may be executed without trial.
* Prisoners who repeatedly cause significant bodily harm to their fellow inmates may be executed without trial.
* Prisoners may request or may otherwise be given parole without prompt by the Warden, Head of Security, or Captain.
 
= Criminal Charges =
== Punishments ==
=== Capital Punishments ===
* '''Execution:''' Termination of life. Whenever an execution is performed, regardless of trial or not, a communications console announcement must be made detailing who was executed and why they were executed.
* '''Exfiltration:''' Immediate retrieval of a High-Value Target via a CentComm-dispatched prisoner transport.
* '''Decorporealization:''' Stripping of the convict’s mind off their own body into a more restrictive, less capable form.
 
=== Normal Punishments ===
* '''Brigging:''' Confinement in the brig for a period of time.
* '''Extended Confinement:''' Confinement until the end of shift. The prisoner is to be transported to CentComm for processing.
* '''Demotion:''' Revoking or downgrading an individual’s employment contract and revoking access accordingly.
* '''Mindbreaking:''' Removal of a psychic's powers through the use of Mindbreaker Toxin or any other available means.
* '''Catch & Release:''' To be taken into Security, processed, searched, but then released. This is not the same as dropping or clearing charges.
 
== Capital Crimes ==
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Offense'''
|'''Definition'''
|'''Minimum Punishment'''
|'''Maximum Punishment'''
|'''Notes'''
|-
|-
|'''Murder'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Decorporealisation}}Decorporealisation
|To kill a sapient being with malicious intent and premeditation.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | Capital
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To unlawfully, maliciously, and permanently strip a sophont’s mind from their body.
*Demotion to Assistant
*Extended Confinement
|
*Any Capital Punishment
|The cold-blooded intent to kill is key.
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|-
|'''Terrorism'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Terrorism}}Terrorism
|To engage in maliciously destructive actions which make uninhabitable or inoperable a vessel or its part.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | Capital
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To commit an act with the intent to cause injury or death, or to take hostages, in order to provoke a state of terror in, intimidate, or compel a group of sophonts to do or to abstain from doing any act.
*Demotion to Assistant
*12m Brig
|
*Any Capital Punishment
|Focus on the intent and consequences present and/or potential.
|-
|-
|'''Kidnapping'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Grand Sabotage}}Grand Sabotage
|To unlawfully remove or confine an individual against their will.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | Capital
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To engage in malicious actions that directly or indirectly make uninhabitable or inoperable a vessel or its part, or irreversibly modify and/or damage technology one is not authorised to access, causing severe bodily harm or death to multiple sophonts.
*Demotion to Assistant
*12m Brig
|
*Any Capital Punishment
|Note the unlawful part.
|-
|-
|'''Espionage'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Kidnapping}}Kidnapping
|To be an unauthorized holder of classified information and/or technology, provide it to an unauthorized recipient, or to intentionally misrepresent oneself as being an employee of Nanotrasen.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | Capital
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To unlawfully confine or restrict the free movement of a sophont against their will.
*Demotion to Assistant
*12m Brig
|
*Any Capital Punishment
|Any proprietary advanced technology sought after by Nanotrasen’s competitors is classified.
|-
|-
|'''Sedition'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Sedition}}Sedition
|To act to overthrow or subvert the established Chain of Command without lawful and legitimate cause.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | Capital
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To act to overthrow a lawfully established Chain of Command or governing body without lawful or legitimate cause.
*Demotion to Assistant
*12m Brig
|
*Any Capital Punishment
|Note the requirement of lack of legitimate cause.
|-
|-
|'''Sexual Harassment'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Sexual Harassment}}Sexual Harassment
|To harass someone or attempt to force or coerce them into sexual relations.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | Capital
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To sexually harass, attempt to coerce into sexual relations, or effect unwanted sexual contact with an unwilling sophont.
*Demotion to Assistant
*Extended Confinement
|
*Any Capital Punishment
|((ERP in any form is permabannable. Adminhelp this if it happens to you; it’s against server rules, not just the law.)) This law is mostly included to allow an IC way to deal with it in the event it does occur.
|}
|}


== Felonies ==
 
{| class="wikitable"
----
|'''Offense'''
=== Felonies ===
|'''Definition'''
 
|'''Minimum Punishment'''
{| style="text-align:center; background-color:#9966334D; width: 90%; border: 1px solid #000000;" cellspacing=0
|'''Maximum Punishment'''
! style="background-color:#996633BF; width:20%; border: 1px solid #000000;" |Name
|'''Notes'''
! style="background-color:#996633BF; width:10%; border: 1px solid #000000;" |Time
! style="background-color:#996633BF; width:50%; border: 1px solid #000000;" |Description
|-
|-
|'''Manslaughter'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Manslaughter}}Manslaughter
|To effect violence upon a person, resulting in their death.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 8 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To effect violence upon a sophont, resulting in their death, without the apparent intent to kill them.
* 6m Brig
|
* 12m Brig
|A death of a person that doesn’t qualify as murder and isn’t fully accidental will typically fall here.
|-
|-
|'''Unauthorized Mindbreaking'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Grand Theft}}Grand Theft
|To unlawfully rid a psychic of their powers.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 8 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To unlawfully take highly restricted, dangerous, valuable, or highly sensitive property or items without consent.
* 4m Brig
|
* 8m Brig
* Mindbreaking
* Demotion
|Who is authorized and when is up to Station Command. Typically Captain, MG, HoS. When a part of a criminal sentence, it is always authorized.
|-
|-
|'''Malicious Psionic Activity'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Black Marketeering}}Black Marketeering
|To use psychic abilities to commit, or assist with the committing of, crimes.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 6 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To sell, distribute, or otherwise circulate restricted items or substances to unauthorised sophonts or entities.
* 3m Brig
|
* 6m Brig
* Mindbreaking
|Expect this to compound a lot. Remember that psychics’ legal status is otherwise undetermined.
|-
|-
|'''Unauthorized Decorporealization'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Sabotage}}Sabotage
|To unlawfully strip a being’s mind from their own body.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 6 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To engage in malicious actions that directly or indirectly hinder the operation of a vessel or its part, modify and/or damage technology one is not authorised to access, or endanger multiple sophonts.
* 5m Brig
|
* 10m Brig
* Decorporealization
* Demotion
|Whether the act was authorized and in what way is up to Command. When a part of a criminal sentence, it is always authorized.
|-
|-
|'''Sabotage'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Mindbreaking}}Mindbreaking
|To engage in malicious actions that hinder the integrity of the station and/or the function of the crew.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 5 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To unlawfully and maliciously rid a psionic sophont of their powers.
* 3m Brig
|
* 6m Brig
* Demotion
|Note the word malicious and the lack of the word “destructive”.
|-
|-
|'''Maiming'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Assault}}Assault
|To inflict physical injury with the intent to disfigure or impair function.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 5 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To cause physical harm or to effect unwanted physical contact on a sophont, without the apparent intent to kill them, or to threaten such actions with both capability and intent to do so.
* 4m Brig
|
* 8m Brig
|Intent, including impassioned intent, is key.
|-
|-
|'''Battery'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Abuse of Power}}Abuse of Power
|To effect unsolicited or unlawful physical contact with a person or to thusly administer a substance upon them, directly or indirectly.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 5 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To intentionally misuse or wrongfully exercise one’s own authority, influence, or control, resulting in harm, unjust treatment, or demonstrable loss to a separate party due to violation of ethical and professional standards.
* Catch & Release
|
* 5m Brig
|Battery can have a great variety of causes with a great variety of severity. Keep that in mind.
|-
|-
|'''Felony Possession'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Possession}}Possession
|To be in unauthorized possession of highly restricted items or items of particular danger.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | Up to 5 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To be in unauthorised possession of restricted items or items of particular danger. See [[Standard_Operating_Procedure#Controlled_Substances/Items|Controlled Substances/Items]], [[Standard_Operating_Procedure#Controlled_Armaments|Controlled Armaments]].
* 5m Brig
|
* 10m Brig
* Demotion
|Typically weapons, explosives, drugs, chemicals, heavy armor, Department Head-issue items… Who is authorized to own what is at discretion of Command.
|-
|-
|'''Rioting'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Endangerment}}Endangerment
|To engage in a public disturbance which involves damage to property.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 4 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To recklessly abandon obligations involving the continued wellbeing and/or protection of life and property, through malpractice, action, or inaction.
* Catch & Release
|
* 5m Brig
|Similar to Battery, the severity of this crime is highly varied.
|-
|-
|'''Resisting Arrest'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Breaking and Entering}}Breaking and Entering
|To intentionally and violently resist arrest or confinement.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 4 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To break and enter into a high security area where one is not authorised nor invited, with intent to commit a crime within.
* 3m Brig
|
* 6m Brig
|Violent being the key word.
|-
|-
|'''Obstruction of Justice'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Rioting}}Rioting
|To willfully disobey a decree of the court or a warrant or prevent one from service.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 4 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To partake in an unauthorised riotous, tumultuous, and disruptive public assembly that refuses to disperse after warning.
* 6m Brig
|
* 12m Brig
|Judgements, warrants of all kinds…
|-
|-
|'''Black Marketeering'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Contempt of Court}}Contempt of Court
|To sell or distribute restricted items or substances.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 4 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To conduct oneself disruptively and disrespectfully before the court.
* 6m Brig
|
* 12m Brig
* Demotion
|As with Possession, authorizations are determined by Command.
|-
|-
|'''Abuse of Power'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Perjury or False Report}}Perjury or False Report
|To grossly oppress an individual as someone with authority over that individual.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 3 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To wilfully and maliciously tell an untruth either in court or in the process of making an actionable report to law enforcement.
* 3m Brig
* Demotion
|
* 6m Brig
|Tends to compound. Note that “grossly” implies the authority is being exercised in clear excess.
|-
|-
|'''Conduct Unbecoming'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Obstruction of Justice}}Obstruction of Justice
|To willfully abandon an obligation that is critical to the station’s continued operation, or to disrepute Nanotrasen by grossly improper conduct.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" |  2 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To wilfully disobey, interfere with, or refuse a decree of the court, warrant, or arrest.
* Catch & Release
* Demotion
|
* 6m Brig
|The disreputable conduct mostly applies to Command staff and Security.
|}
|}


== Misdemeanors ==
 
{| class="wikitable"
----
|'''Offense'''
=== Misdemeanours ===
|'''Definition'''
 
|'''Minimum Punishment'''
{| style="text-align:center; background-color:#9999334D; width: 90%; border: 1px solid #000000;" cellspacing=0
|'''Maximum Punishment'''
! style="background-color:#999933BF; width:20%; border: 1px solid #000000;" |Name
|'''Notes'''
! style="background-color:#999933BF; width:10%; border: 1px solid #000000;" |Time
|-
! style="background-color:#999933BF; width:50%; border: 1px solid #000000;" |Description
|'''Assault'''
|To threaten to use physical force against someone while also having the capability and/or intent to carry out that threat.
|
* Catch & Release
|
* 3m Brig
|Note there’s two conditions to this charge and both have to be true.
|-
|-
|'''Theft'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Animal Cruelty}}Animal Cruelty
|To take property without consent, depriving authorized users of its intended use.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 3 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To inflict unnecessary suffering on a sapient being with malicious intent.
* Catch & Release
|
* 4m Brig
|Depends on the item taken and compounds easily. Note the definition says nothing of whether the perpetrator is authorized or not.
|-
|-
|'''Animal Cruelty'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Trespass}}Trespass
|To inflict unnecessary suffering on a non-sapient being with malicious intent.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 2 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To enter into an area where one is not authorised nor invited.
* 3m Brig
|
* 6m Brig
|Note that to do this in line of work may be necessary.
|-
|-
|'''Endangerment'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Theft}}Theft
|To recklessly put yourself or others in danger through your malpractice, action or inaction.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 2 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To unlawfully take property or items without consent.
* 3m Brig
|
* 6m Brig
* Demotion
|Notice the malpractice.
|-
|-
|'''Vandalism'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Vandalism}}Vandalism
|To intentionally deface or superficially damage property.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | 2 minutes
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To deface or superficially damage public property, or property belonging to another person.
* Catch & Release
|
* 3m Brig
|Easily compounded, easily upgraded.
|-
|-
|'''Misdemeanor Possession'''
! style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | {{anchor|Hooliganism}}Hooliganism
|To possess items one is not authorized to have.
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | As necessary
|
| style="border: 1px solid #000000;" | To intentionally and maliciously engage in disruptive conduct, where one refuses to cease.
* Catch & Release
|
* 3m Brig
* Demotion
|Command determines who is authorized for what.
|-
|'''Insubordination'''
|To disobey a lawful direct order from one’s superior officer.
|
* Catch & Release
|
* 3m Brig
* Demotion
|Easily compounded.
|-
|'''Contempt of Court'''
|To conduct oneself disruptively and disrespectfully before the court.
|
* 5m Brig
|
* 5m Brig
* ''Execution''
|Execution only applies if the perpetrator is the one on trial.
|-
|'''Evading arrest'''
|To non-violently escape or avoid arrest.
|
* Catch & Release
|
* 3m Brig
|To prevent Security from getting you is the main notion. Almost always compounded.
|-
|'''Breaking and Entering'''
|To tresspass with the intent to commit crime.
|
* 2m Brig
|
* 2m Brig
|By definition always compounds.
|-
|'''Trespassing'''
|To enter an area and refuse to leave where one is unauthorized and uninvited.
|
* Catch & Release
|
* 7m Brig
|Consequentially to B&E’s definition, never compounds.
|-
|'''Hooliganism'''
|To intentionally engage in disruptive conduct.
|
* Catch & Release
|
* Brig until compliant
|This is kind of a catch all for malicious disruption that isn’t otherwise chargeable.
|}
|}


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Space Law is a collection of rules and regulations enacted by Nanotrasen which has oversight through CentCom and is enforced by the Security Officers on the station. Space Law applies to all ranks and positions on station, from the lowliest Assistant to the highest Captain, all are equal under the eyes of the Law and ultimately answer to it.

It is highly recommended to read the Standard Operating Procedures and specifically the following parts:

Sentences

Capital

  • Execution: Termination of the convict’s life.
  • Whenever any execution is performed, regardless of trial or not, a general announcement must be made detailing who was executed and for what reason.
  • The convict may select from one of four methods of execution, depending on availability: firing squad, lethal injection, electric shock, or asphyxiation. If the convict does not make a choice after being given ample opportunity, the sentencing officer or other relevant authority may select the method that is most appropriate. Convicts may request alternate methods of execution that may be approved or denied at the discretion of the individual passing the sentence.
  • The executed’s corpse must be burned, stored in the morgue, or processed by medical staff using the biomass reclaimer.
  • Exfiltration: Immediate retrieval of the convict via a CentComm, or GALPOL, dispatched transport.
  • The prisoner may be held in a temporary cell until the transport arrives.
  • If a transport cannot be arranged, default to other capital sentences.
  • Decorporealisation: Stripping the convict’s mind from their body into a more restricting form.
  • Soul crystals, golems, and cyborgs are all permissible forms.
  • Permanent Brig, Permabrig, or Extended Confinement: Placing the convict into the permanent brig until the end of the shift, where they are to be transported to Central Command for processing.
  • The convict has the same rights as any other prisoner within the permabrig, whether they arrived by transport or were sentenced to Extended confinement.

Standard

  • Brigging: Placing the convict into a temporary holding cell. See Treatment of Prisoners (SOP).
  • Catch & Release: Taking the convict to Security, processing them, searching them, and then releasing them. See Jurisdiction (SOP).
  • Demotion: Downgrading the convict’s employment contract and revoking their access accordingly, with permission from or when ordered by the convict’s head of department. May be applied when the convict has committed a crime relating to their employment within their department or with NanoTrasen as a whole. See Conduct Unbecoming (Company Policy).
  • Licence restriction: Downgrading or suspending the convict’s armament licence and confiscating possessions accordingly. May be applied when the convict is guilty of possession or a crime involving a weapon they were lawfully permitted to carry.
  • Mindbreaking: Removal of the convict’s psionic power by use of mindbreaker toxin or any other means. May be applied when the convict is guilty of a crime in which they use psionics.

Crime Modifiers

Sentencing modifiers are to be applied by the sentencing officer, judge, or arbiter. Aggravating modifiers may not extend a sentence beyond the specified limit, while extenuating modifiers may not reduce a sentence below the specified limit.

Aggravating

  • Solicitation
    Any sophont found guilty of encouraging, bribing, requesting, or instructing someone to commit a crime, with the intent that the sophont being solicited commit the crime, will receive for the crimes they solicited in full.
  • Accessory
    Any sophont found guilty of assisting in the commission of a crime, without participating in the crime itself, knowing that a crime will be, has been, or is being committed, will receive the sentence for the crimes in which they took part in full.
  • Attempts
    Any sophont found guilty of attempting to commit a crime, with the intent to carry out that crime, will receive the sentence for the crimes they attempted in full.
  • Conspiracy
    Any sophont found guilty of planning to commit a crime, with the intent to carry out that crime eventually, and having committed an overt act pursuant to that end, will receive the sentence for the crimes they conspired towards in full.
  • Deadly weapon
    Any sophont found guilty of committing a crime, utilising any object used offensively for the purpose of inflicting mortal or great bodily harm, will receive an additional modifier of, at most, 150% of the original sentence.
  • Aggravation
    Any sophont found guilty of committing a crime with reckless abandon, evident signs of lack of regret or remorse, or blatant disregard for potential collateral damage, will receive an additional modifier of, at most, 150% of the original sentence.
  • Discriminatory intent
    Any sophont found guilty of committing a crime based fully or in part based on the victim or affected party’s appearance, gender, psionics, religion, ability/disability, place of origin or habitation, culture, or other immutable feature or quality, will receive an additional modifier of, at most,150% of the original sentence.
  • Recidivism
    Any sophont convicted of the same criminal charge multiple times within one shift will receive an additional modifier of, at most, 200% of the original sentence.

Extenuating

  • Cooperation
    Any sophont who shares actionable intelligence with the authorities, turns oneself in, testifies against accomplices, confesses to their crime, or otherwise aids the prosecution, may have their sentence reduced to no less than 50% of the original sentence.
  • Dire Emergency
    Any sophont found to have committed a crime in the process of absolutely necessary and reasonable actions, taken with the intent to resolve or mitigate the effects of a dire emergency on one’s vessel or habitat, may have their sentence reduced by any amount, or completely waived.
  • Self-Defence
    Any sophont found to have committed a crime or crimes in protection of oneself or another, and only to the necessary extent to avert a direct and imminent threat to the health and life of innocent persons, may have their sentence reduced by any amount, or completely waived.
  • Good Behaviour
    Any convict who peacefully complies with the authorities, displays clear signs of remorse concerning the committed crime, and/or conducts themselves peacefully while imprisoned, may be paroled as outlined in the Standard Operating Procedures.

Crimes

Capital Crimes

Name Time Description
Murder Capital To kill a sophont with malicious intent and premeditation.
Decorporealisation Capital To unlawfully, maliciously, and permanently strip a sophont’s mind from their body.
Terrorism Capital To commit an act with the intent to cause injury or death, or to take hostages, in order to provoke a state of terror in, intimidate, or compel a group of sophonts to do or to abstain from doing any act.
Grand Sabotage Capital To engage in malicious actions that directly or indirectly make uninhabitable or inoperable a vessel or its part, or irreversibly modify and/or damage technology one is not authorised to access, causing severe bodily harm or death to multiple sophonts.
Kidnapping Capital To unlawfully confine or restrict the free movement of a sophont against their will.
Sedition Capital To act to overthrow a lawfully established Chain of Command or governing body without lawful or legitimate cause.
Sexual Harassment Capital To sexually harass, attempt to coerce into sexual relations, or effect unwanted sexual contact with an unwilling sophont.


Felonies

Name Time Description
Manslaughter 8 minutes To effect violence upon a sophont, resulting in their death, without the apparent intent to kill them.
Grand Theft 8 minutes To unlawfully take highly restricted, dangerous, valuable, or highly sensitive property or items without consent.
Black Marketeering 6 minutes To sell, distribute, or otherwise circulate restricted items or substances to unauthorised sophonts or entities.
Sabotage 6 minutes To engage in malicious actions that directly or indirectly hinder the operation of a vessel or its part, modify and/or damage technology one is not authorised to access, or endanger multiple sophonts.
Mindbreaking 5 minutes To unlawfully and maliciously rid a psionic sophont of their powers.
Assault 5 minutes To cause physical harm or to effect unwanted physical contact on a sophont, without the apparent intent to kill them, or to threaten such actions with both capability and intent to do so.
Abuse of Power 5 minutes To intentionally misuse or wrongfully exercise one’s own authority, influence, or control, resulting in harm, unjust treatment, or demonstrable loss to a separate party due to violation of ethical and professional standards.
Possession Up to 5 minutes To be in unauthorised possession of restricted items or items of particular danger. See Controlled Substances/Items, Controlled Armaments.
Endangerment 4 minutes To recklessly abandon obligations involving the continued wellbeing and/or protection of life and property, through malpractice, action, or inaction.
Breaking and Entering 4 minutes To break and enter into a high security area where one is not authorised nor invited, with intent to commit a crime within.
Rioting 4 minutes To partake in an unauthorised riotous, tumultuous, and disruptive public assembly that refuses to disperse after warning.
Contempt of Court 4 minutes To conduct oneself disruptively and disrespectfully before the court.
Perjury or False Report 3 minutes To wilfully and maliciously tell an untruth either in court or in the process of making an actionable report to law enforcement.
Obstruction of Justice 2 minutes To wilfully disobey, interfere with, or refuse a decree of the court, warrant, or arrest.


Misdemeanours

Name Time Description
Animal Cruelty 3 minutes To inflict unnecessary suffering on a sapient being with malicious intent.
Trespass 2 minutes To enter into an area where one is not authorised nor invited.
Theft 2 minutes To unlawfully take property or items without consent.
Vandalism 2 minutes To deface or superficially damage public property, or property belonging to another person.
Hooliganism As necessary To intentionally and maliciously engage in disruptive conduct, where one refuses to cease.


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