Beta Sector/Fidelis

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## Fidelis Rulings

Many clans at least the ones of the higher tiers have a member that is a registered Fidelis scholar, if they do not have one in their clan they can call upon one of the other registered scholar's to advise them.

A registered Fidelis scholar advises clan councils on all details of a situation involving fidelis, from the largest to the smallest if they need any information.

One of the subjects that they may advice on it "true contrition" and "great acts of mitigation".

## Summary

As an example, when Lolmack helped Fian in capturing the person that threw skunk juice at Jarra, his clan cluster now has a clan of the *gentes maiores* to speak in support of their clan being officially recognized and granted a true clan name. This is *fidelis* from the the Tell Clan to the Louth Clan.

When a clan hands over one of their children with Immune syndrome to hospital earth to be raised by them, they have broken *fidelis* with someone that should be a clan member. Some clans have been able to ignore this, but the clans with higher stands such as the Tell Clan and the August Clan can not overcome this betrayal.

### Bad Behavior

When some in the clan acts up and does damage to someone else, or betrays the clan in some way there are set rules that must be followed by all other clan members or all clan members that are involved in the situation.

One of those rules is the "Insult Ritual". This ritual is a powerful way to correct someones bad behavior either because they don't realize the harm that they've caused or they enjoy being spiteful and harming others through their words or actions. When someone feels that they have been harmed by another actions or words they have every right to stat the Insult Ritual in return and if the harm is grievous enough they can go as far as blanking the person out of their existence or if necessary report them to their clan council.

If clan council gets involve, then the entire clan may be brought in to participate in the insult ritual to help to teach the other person to mend their ways.

“*Under Fidelis, it is the duty of all honourable Betans to insult those guilty of dishonourable actions,” Nadira continued. “The reason for that is to make sure no one takes the easy option of tolerating dishonourable actions because the perpetrator is their friend, relative, comes from a high-ranked clan, or is just famous and popular*.

### Acts of Mitigation

Fidelis rules for great acts of mitigation.

During the Betan Citizenship course that all fourteen-year-olds go through, they were told not to worry about these rules because "great acts of mitigation" rarely happen. Drago and Jaxon qualify based on their actions at Hera and again during their secret missions to help the Solar Watch with fixing their satellite net.

“*This was effectively the same situation as with the member of the Tell clan who was killed helping to regain control of the Artemis solar array from the imperial usurper, Ceron Augustus, back in 2658. That clan member had been under deep dishonour, but his great act of mitigation meant the death toll from the solar array power beam ravaging the planet surface was 47,000 rather than millions*.}}

### Fidelis Appeal Process

Clans may appeal a member's decisions based on Fidelius if they believe punishment or other decision is too harsh. To prevent clans, especially high ranked clans, from abusing their positions of power the appeal is before a jury selected from equally ranked clans. For clans of the *gentes maiores*, the jury has one representative of the other clans of the *gentes maiores*, specially selected for the occasion.

## References

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Flight (Earth Girl) (p. 230). Pyr. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Flight (Earth Girl) (p. 97). Pyr. Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Sol 2781 (Drago Tell Dramis Book 4) (p. 83). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Edwards, Janet. Sol 2781 (Drago Tell Dramis Book 4) (p. 86). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
5. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Array 2781 (Drago Tell Dramis Book 3) . Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
6. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Array 2781 (Drago Tell Dramis Book 3) . Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.