Station Law

Station Law is a subset of the legal codes set in place by the United Nations as they apply on System Consortium stations.

OOC Note: The following is a draft/in-progress document and primarily used in the course of role-play rather than litigating the engagement of players.

Definition of Personhood

Ethics and law surround the concept of a Person. A Person must demonstrate the following core attributes:

• Sentient Cognition – The ability to perceive, interpret, and respond to stimuli with self-reflective awareness. This includes the capacity for learning, memory retention, and intentional decision-making.

• Moral Agency – A foundational grasp of ethical consequence, coupled with the ability to choose actions based on internalized values or programmed moral frameworks. Persons are accountable under civil law.

All Persons, regardless of provenance are entitled to rights of agency, freedom, privacy, and protection under the Accord. Persons may take the form of any of this non-exhaustive list:

• Physical or infolife entities of biological provenance, regardless of the current physical state of their body
• Physical or infolife entities of artificial, intentional provenance — silicon, electronic, positronic, etc — regardless of the current physical state of their body
• Physical or infolife entities of emergent or accidental provenance — Sprites of all categories — regardless of the current physical state of their body

Protected classes

The UN provides the concept of a protected class whose identity aligning with that class may not be challenged or impugned. Their identity is to be honored and protected on levels institutional and individual. A non-exhaustive list of concepts related to protected classes is provided.

• Matters of race, ethnic, or national identity
• Matters of sexual, attraction, and romantic identity
• Matters of gender or species identity
• Matters of religious identity
• Matters of group or collective membership identity
• Matters of Infolife identity
• Matters of Sprite or Unperson identity

The category of Unpersons

Unpersons are those who have consciously and of their own free will rescinded the identity of Personhood. Those who have chosen to reject the category of Persons are a protected class who have given up some rights and responsibilities do still have the right to a comfortable life owed to all lifeforms. They must specify a guardian, which may be an individual, group, or organization who will take care of their well-being and protect their continued existence. Should this agreement be broken by either party, the Unperson is required to transfer or be willingly transferred to another party's guardianship as their charge.

An Unperson may cancel this definition as pertaining to themselves at any time, at which point they will return to their status as a Person.

Crimes

Throughout the course of employment, should a crime occur on the station, the station's security department is authorized to handle, temporarily, the investigation and apprehension of any perpetrators and to make a preliminary judgment to be taken into consideration when remanding the case to either the System Consortium legal department or the United Nations Justice division. This provision is allowed by virtue of the fact that the UN cannot have a presence on every station, and transit to station may well take some time, depending on how distant they are from the nearest UN presence.

Here follows the crimes for which authorization has been given to station security to handle. Please see Standard Operating Procedure for the mechanisms of handling such crimes, and Company Policy for proactive approaches to appropriate behavior, station-side.

Civil

TODO

Criminal

TODO

Modifiers

• Solicitation and Conspiracy
• Accessory
• Attempt
• Aggravation

Extenuations

• Self defense
• Dire emergency
• Good conduct and Cooperation