Chapter 1,245 Apostle Xiling’s Legal Thoughts
There seems to be no doubt about the trial of the Merova radicals. All those we captured were senior officers of the Merova radicals. It was these people who committed the series of unforgivable crimes. , when they were tried, the only problem faced by the imperial court was that the existing code could not even set a maximum sentencing limit for them.
Ninety percent of the radical officers committed several felonies, each of which exceeded the sentencing ceiling!
Therefore, at the beginning of the trial, according to usual practice, the court's coordinating host made a prejudgment for these Melova officers to apply unlimited sentences. In other words, after analyzing all existing codes and cases, the coordinating host believes that even if the trial ends, the second outcome will not occur. This punishment is an extremely special judgment conclusion of the Imperial Court, and its other name is "The Fourth District".
This can be said to be a very rare situation. The extreme execution ground in District 4 actually rarely appears in the imperial court judgments. It is only applicable to those who have been strictly reviewed and determined that any existing punishment is not enough to cope with them. Extreme criminals who commit crimes that would not appear in large numbers under normal circumstances. Since the establishment of the Fourth District and the Imperial Court being linked to the Fourth District, there have been only a few hundred such criminals: and this is the number accumulated among the trillions of people in the entire macro world. A normal intelligent creature, if it is mentally sane and the basic moral environment around it is normal, no matter how cruel it is, will not be easily crazy enough to enter the fourth area. Even if it completely abandons its conscience, an intelligent creature with a brain will not be crazy enough to enter the fourth area. There should be a minimum psychological limit, so the space passage leading to the fourth area, nicknamed the "Flea Trail", is usually quite deserted, and few new prisoners are sent in.
As a result, this time the Imperial Court may have to send a group of people in at once... It can only be said that Barian successfully led a group of villains that shocked even the court host, so much so that I heard that the coordinating host planned to send a group of people there specially The Merovas open a database of cases. Take them out of criminology one by one. Make up a subject alone...
But despite the prediction. The normal trial process must still be carried out. Today is the day for the trial of some senior officers of the radical faction. At the initiative of my sister, I took her to the court.
This court located in the Shadow City is the highest judicial authority in the empire. It is only used to deal with extreme criminal situations submitted by lower courts, as well as direct crimes against the Imperial Military. It is not in the main city of Shadow City, but "directly below" Shadow City. We know that Shadow City is actually an aerial city floating in space. It is like an inverted island hovering over the mother planet Gaia. All the residents of Shadow City live on the front of this aerial city, but the back of this aerial city is not empty either. There are also a smaller number of imperial facilities scattered here, which are arranged along the raised back of the sky island, like a complex of palaces built against the mountain. Most of these facilities are the city maintenance devices of Shadow City, such as energy centers, mathematical stabilizers, and synchronized data transmission arrays with Gaia. The remaining facilities include some military factories and secret departments. These buildings are scattered in the vast desolate hills on the backside of Shadow City, forming a sharp contrast with the bustling capitals of all realms on the other side of the earth.
The Imperial Supreme Court is located in the center of this dark, desolate land. At the highest point of the raised Kongdao ridge. It is a huge symmetrical cross-shaped building, the main part of which is a circular vaulted hall. With this hall as the center, four rectangular corridors extend symmetrically around it. The entire building is made of solid interstellar alloy and glows with a silvery white cold light. There is no decoration on its surface. From the air, the court looks like a sharp cross nailed to the ground.
In front of the entrance of the court, there is a giant holographic projection of Sandora and I. This should be equivalent to the stone lion at the door... Okay, I know this is a bit problematic, but this is how I have always understood it. Under the giant projection, a line of large characters was written in imperial script:
Confess everything! Those who enter this door, lying is like lying to the emperor!
"...I still feel like two stone lions..." After silently reading the powerful characters floating in the air, I couldn't help but bring up the association of stone lions again, "I heard Sandora say, the old empire In the era, there was this rule at the entrance to the Supreme Court of every region. They had to place a statue of the emperor and write this sentence. But now the empire is governed by two emperors at the same time in the same ruling area, so it can only be done on one side of the gate. Just put one away..."
My sister was a little absent-minded. If it were normal, she would have had a lot to say when she saw the two provocative projections at the door. But now, she just waved her hand and pulled me in.
The trial scene and law enforcement process of the Imperial Court may be very different from the court in many people's minds.
There are no seats for the jury, and there are no defense attorneys for both sides. The "judge" does not need any defense behavior, and does not accept any subjective third-party accusations. All trial-related information gathering is done by a completely independent team of "gatherers." The members of this team are senior agents and information recording experts. They think purely rationally when working. They do not make any evaluation of criminal acts and criminals. Their only job is to collect all useful intelligence and submit it to the court host. , the intelligence they collect does not allow descriptive and rhetorical information. In fact, the intelligence provided by the "collectors" is more like a precise snapshot of history, including the scene at the time when the crime occurred, the actions of all personnel, and all The triggers for people to do the above actions, the consequences of each relevant individual action... everything is made into a list without any rhetorical elements. This information is submitted to a special adjudication panel. The trial team consists of three court hosts, three judges and three recorders. The court host is divided into the coordinating host, the database host and the logical host. The coordinating host is responsible for unifying and comparing all information from the collector team and the database host, and accurately correcting each piece of information to ensure full compliance with the Code. At the same time, the coordinating host The entire case will be prejudged in advance based on its own comparison results. This prejudgment result is not linked to the final trial, but it will be recorded and used to correct the next generation of consoles in the future. Then the coordinating host submits its comparison results to the logical host. The logic host began analyzing the case according to the Imperial Codex. At the same time, the final sentencing is corrected based on the perceptual thinking mode of intelligent creatures. The database host does not participate in any analysis work in the whole process. It is only responsible for accurately submitting the data for analysis, and then saving the data uploaded by the recorders. As a case.
In fact, the main judges of the court are these three hosts, and the work of the three judges is more like assisting the work of these hosts. As for the three recorders, they have no right to make any suggestions.
So does this trial guarantee absolute fairness?
No. It simply ensured absolute compliance with the laws of the Empire.
Every race has its own worldview, and even every intelligent individual has its own worldview. Under this premise, a universal and absolute fairness does not exist, and the Xiling apostles do not have the time to study an absolute fairness. the result of. The code that applies to the entire empire is actually more like a "final boundary". Within this final boundary, each race can formulate its own laws according to its own moral values and worldview, and can do whatever it wants, but once it comes into contact To the "final frontier". The three hosts of the Imperial Court will ignore your race and your thoughts. It converts everything about you into data, and then compares it with the imperial code. It is like putting an unqualified screw into a standard screw hole. Any unqualified part will be ruthlessly cut away and judged. As a perceptual and intelligent creature, the only role that the reader's worldview and moral values play in this process can only be to choose whether to be cut in place with one knife or divided into twenty pieces and slowly chipped away, and this choice process has nothing to do with you.
Therefore, the Imperial Court is not so much a legal department as it is a "debugging" factory with Xiling characteristics. In this factory, there is no need for too much communication between the "bad parts" being "repaired" and the engineers responsible for the "repair". This is the "trial" in Apostle Xiling's impression. As a kind of absolute loyalty, under normal circumstances They are special creatures who would never violate the code under any circumstances. It is difficult for them to understand why there are intelligent individuals who would actively violate the interests of their race and motherland. Therefore, they regard these criminals as "ill-functioning machines". If the machine is broken, then It needs to be repaired. If it is too damaged, it needs to be dismantled, scrapped, and thrown into the reactor. As far as the court host is concerned, they cannot see the difference between a general running away on the battlefield and a screw missing a thread. Both need to be "sharpened", but the former will be whittled to death.
So what if something is so broken that it cannot be "repaired" at all, and even if it is thrown into the reactor, it may contaminate the furnace?
That's the so-called uncapped penalty zone four.
It has to be said that such a court is completely different from the judicial institutions established by the emotional conventional races, and even challenges many people's worldview, but as just said: it never guarantees that its judgment results are universally applicable. Any world view is absolutely fair, but it guarantees that its judgment results are 100% in line with the laws of the empire. This is the unique law-abiding view of the Xiling apostles: be a good part, otherwise it will be recast. They will make everything in the name of the empire Things: including citizens, are regarded as some kind of parts, and parts should have their own technical parameters. If they do not meet the technical parameters, it is a crime. As for how to think of this part, when the interests of the empire are guaranteed, there is no People care about irrelevant things.
However, ordinary races in the empire's ruled areas do not have to worry about being thrown into such a court. I also don't have to worry that such a court will make civilians who are not suitable for the empire's iron-blooded mentality feel uneasy. The reason is very simple: the imperial court does not judge filial piety. …
The law enacted by Apostle Xiling is very interesting. It has no civil law, no economic law, and no contract law. These various legal categories make those people who are single-minded extremely confused. Even Sandora said that she could not understand why these laws were reasonable. Things that should be abided by by the whole people also need to be enacted laws so that the people can understand what to do. Most of the items in the Xiling Code are formulated for things that sound like a fortress, such as imperial military orders, race survival, and world security. They feel that only matters such as the life and death of the universe and the continuation of racial development are necessary for legislation. Therefore, Ordinary races have almost no chance of going to the Imperial Court. The "final boundary" of the Imperial Code is wider than you think, and crimes within this scope still need to be resolved by ordinary "human justice." And those who accidentally touched the "final boundary" and exceeded human justice...
Basically, no one would have any objection if it was thrown into the imperial court.
To put it simply, in the empire-controlled areas, most conventional races still have to abide by human justice. It is still human justice that is responsible for governing them. The Imperial Code is a conceptual standard that cannot be broken by mortals even if they want to. If the Imperial Code is regarded as a "house" used to regulate the scope of people's activities, then the construction area of this house has reached one million square kilometers... So I looked up and saw that the mortal races who marveled at the mountains had to do this. Find any floor tiles in the unprecedented big house and build your own house...
So sometimes I can't help but think about it. Perhaps the so-called dogma of gods has the same feeling for mortals: the laws of gods are awe-inspiring and irresistible, but after you really come into contact with them, you will find that you are a mortal. Even the illegal gates are difficult to reach. The Merova people should be proud of this. As a mortal race, they have committed almost all of the most severe felonies in the empire: while serving as servants of the empire, Commit treason, kill superiors, steal imperial property, illegal genocide, and attack the imperial royal family. The above-mentioned crimes are really not something ordinary mortal races can get. Sometimes, when the cultural gap between the two races reaches a certain level, all kinds of unimaginable and wonderful phenomena will happen...
My sister and I came to such a court. What I saw was naturally a boring sight. There were no "onlookers" at all, except for the special seats reserved for us. The oval-shaped Judgment Hall is divided into two ends. At one end is the position of the judge. The three court hosts are three silver-white cylindrical machines that look almost identical. The crystal panels inlaid on their surfaces are constantly refreshing a large amount of data. These three cylindrical hosts that are more than ten meters high are facing the court. It is tilted back about thirty degrees and is half-buried in the silver-white alloy wall of the hall. On the seat in front of the host base, the judge is displaying the next criminal's name on the holographic projection. After a period of comparison After processing, the host and the referee will jointly make a verdict. After this, the offender has time to speak. During this speaking time, you can announce a plea of guilty or a protest.
Yes, you can express your objection to the verdict. This is a somewhat unexpected setting. If the person being judged is dissatisfied with the verdict and can provide more information about the case on the spot that is not within the scope of the "collector" , then his protest is valid. According to the trial logic of the Xiling Apostles, they will add new information to the comparison process, confirm that the information is true, and then fine-tune the trial results. It’s just that this is just a theoretical “reversal of verdict” process. In actual situations, we have never encountered a situation where the court “gatherers” missed information. As for the several Merova officers who are on trial, they have no room for escape.
The judges certainly noticed our arrival, but they did not pause their work. They just nodded in the direction where my sister and I were sitting. The person currently being sentenced is a senior Merova officer. In addition to the "general items" such as treason and plundering imperial property, his crimes include personally planning and implementing the extermination of three innocent lower civilizations and being This was done out of revenge after those three civilizations announced their surrender.
The court host made a low buzzing sound. The coordinating host was requesting information from the database. The logic host was analyzing the completed data points in an orderly manner. The database host was silent and did not express any opinions on the case. The three judges were connected to the dedicated Internet, and exchanged some opinions with judges from other courts. After the logic host compiled the analysis conclusions into a document and published it, the three judges quickly evaluated the document to determine the correctness of the document and the accuracy of the comparison process. Sex, and then they informed the prisoners of the trial results that another guy needed to be sent to the Fourth District. However, his crime was relatively minor compared to other compatriots, so his sentence in the Fourth District was only a few hundred years.
The Merova officer seemed to find it difficult to accept the outcome of the trial, but he was not in a position to protest: he had no further testimony that could be collected by the coordinating host. So the officer became restless in front of the judgment seat, like an ordinary person dominated by fear: even though they once thought they were gods.
At this moment, onee-sama suddenly stood up.
Perhaps because she has been deified, or perhaps for some other reason, her sister, who has always been gentle to others, now has a vague aura of coldness. The Merova officers in front of the trial stand were stunned for a while. They may feel that this The breath was a bit familiar, and then they all looked up.
"Emperor...Your Majesty..."
One war criminal said in shock that if it weren't for the shackles on the seat, he might have slipped to the ground.
All the restless war criminals also became quiet... It cannot be said to be quiet, but more like they lost the ability to move in the face of huge fear. The other war criminals waiting for trial also fell into the same state of fear. The face that reappeared in front of them took away everyone's courage and sense of resistance. They lowered their heads slumped, and did not even dare to continue to raise their eyes to look here. , tens of thousands of years have passed, and it seems that the sense of oppression brought to them by the former emperor is still there today. I couldn't help but glance at my sister: What kind of ruler would my sister be when she was another person tens of thousands of years ago?
I finally focused my eyes on the court again, looking for Barian among the war criminals. I couldn't find him at first. I thought he was not on the waiting list for this batch, but I soon found him in the corner. This once arrogant tyrant hunched over his body and seemed to be trying his best to hide in the shadows where his sister would not notice him. He could be so depressed that I immediately lost interest in following him: with Tula Seriously, this is a complete loser.
"It seems there is nothing to see. They are already strangers to me," my sister sighed softly, took my hand and left the seat, "Arjun, let's go... wait a few days, I'll meet that Turazzo again." (To be continued.)