Stipulation 1

##### *As signed by Sovereign Hyde; The members of the Chamber of Governors Select Board with the approval of the CoG; Grand Marshal Mustain of the The Independent Police Force; Chairman Mishima of the PPB Ruling Committee; Over-Admiral Blakemore of the PPB Navy.*

> Stipulation 1 : No person shall be complicit in, participate in, and/or knowingly abet others engaged in the planning and/or execution of interplanetary war.
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> Stipulation 2 : No person shall be complicit in, participate in, and/or knowingly abet others engaged in the crime of piracy, brigandry, or marauding.
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> Stipulation 3 : No person shall be complicit in, participate in, and/or knowingly abet others engaged in assembling, or, through illegal use of force, obtaining the means to assemble a war machine constituting a direct and demonstrable threat to the peace and sovereignty of the Focus Protectorate.
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> *Individuals found to be in violation any or all of these\* stipulations shall be subject to the harshest punishment, strung hand and foot in the open, medicated in such a way to prolong life and consciousness for as long as possible, while their stomachs are slit open and a pack of dog-hawks who have been denied food for 25 hours are released to satisfy themselves as they will. Upon death, such remains as there are will be gathered and burned\*\*, with the ashes being disposed of by a drone on a randomly chosen moon, with all record of the location expunged from records. Having scattered the ashes the drone will fly into the nearest sun so the location will never be known.*
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> *The punishment for any world initiating or assisting in a planetary invasion will be severe. The world/s shall be subject to the permanent removal of all human life.\*\*\**
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\*The utility of maintaining this punishment for common piracy rapidly became impractical, so the punishment for Stipulation 2 violators who operated by means of attacking spacecraft only were not strung out for the dog-hawks. In factas time went by the growing distaste for capital punishment meant that captured pirates were unlikely to even be executed. However, none of the spacegoing law enforcement agencies trouble themselves too much about capturing pirates alive, unless they had kidnap victims or hostages aboard their junks. Of complaints and prosecutions about excessive use of force by law enforcement in pirate engagements there have been a sum total of none. That is not to say none have been made, they have simply never been recorded or acted on.

\*\*The punishment devised was intended to be as medieval and horrific sounding as possible. The earliest administrations of the sentence were recorded and sent to the headquarters of the worst offenders who were still free, but on the target list of Black Fleet. Some of the recordings lasted several days, and while they did not deter the worst of the marauders and aspiring proto-Emperors, they proved the newly created Focus Protectorate meant business when it came to their goal of ending raiding parties and invasions, and of making the perpetrators pay a gruesome price.

\*\*\*This section was deliberately kept vague to make sure it was as terrifying a deterrent as possible. After the invasion of Tiovo was thwarted, Sovereign Dofstez revealed the practical methods by which the planetary punishment would be administered, which was not to destroy the world with its population still in place, but to evacuate the planet and scatter its citizens around the furthest most inaccessible reaches of the Protectorate, and introduce a deadly vector to the planetary biosphere, genetically designed to be deadly to humans, but no other fauna (or flora) living there.