Detinus Republic Laws


Classification: Open

Valid as of:13.204




[OOC: Assume the DTR laws to be similar to those of any nation. The laws presented below are only an adaption to reflect game mechanisms but in the game they are valid.]

DTR TERRITORIAL LAW

Article 1 - Territory of the Detinus Republic

1. The territory of the DTR comprises of all star systems or parts thereof claimed on behalf of the DTR, and the area holding a DTR Installation.
2. Installations include Starbases and Outposts. Space stations are counted as Starbases.
3. The Detinus Republic is the proprietor of all artifacts, derelicts and exploitable resources in DTR territory except for the resources legally produced at other Starbases or Outposts.

Article 2 - Access

1. All starships and ground parties, except those affiliations listed below, may freely enter territory claimed by the DTR and travel, trade and explore at will within the confines of DTR law provided that they do not enter restricted territories or the system is under DTR Martial Law.
2. IND positions must register with DTR authorities (andy@spacious.com or nic@spacious.com) before entering DTR territory to receive the same benefits otherwise will be treated as hostile.
3. Affiliations which are banned from DTR space are:
- Pirates (PIR)
- Imperial Services (IMP)
- Frontier Exploration and Trade (FET)
- Galactic Trade and Transport (GTT)
- Galactic Crest Security (GCS)
- Dominion (DOM)
- Deweik of elder Nation (DEN)
4. All positions in DTR territory are subject to DTR jurisdiction.
5. All information gained in DTR territory must be made available to the DTR within 2 weeks.
6. The DTR reserves the right to actively scan any position in DTR space and demand the tech manual of any unknown item discovered on board.

Article 3 - Restricted Territories

1. If the security of the state is at stake the DTR Senate can declare any part of their territory to be a Restricted Area at any time.
2. The starports of all DTR Installations are Restricted Areas unless the InstallationŐs market message explicitly indicates otherwise.
3. Presence in a Restricted Area is illegal under Article 12 of the Penal Law for all positions except those of the DTR unless they have an explicit permission from the DTR Speaker, the DTR Internal Minister or the DTR Defence Minister. In the case of Starbase starports, the Starbase governor can also issue a landing permission at his Starbase.
4. The DTR shall maintain a list of Restricted Territories (see appendix A) which must be made accessible to the general public for reference. Changes to this list shall be announced in public.

Article 4 - Starbases and Outposts

1. A permit must be obtained from the DTR Speaker or the DTR Internal Minister prior to building any Starbase or Outpost. The permit can include restrictions, taxes and other obligations and can be revoked if these are not observed.
2. Illegal Starbases and Outposts can be posted and seized by force.
3. Merchandising, exchange, training, shipyard and platform control complexes may not be built without permission from the DTR Speaker or the DTR Internal Minister.
4. The restricted location data of the Starbase or Outpost must be supplied to the DTR Magistrate within 4 weeks of construction.

Article 5 - Bylaws

1. The owner of an installation has the right to set and enforce bylaws.
2. All bylaws, whether new or modifications of existing bylaws, must first be approved by the DTR Speaker or DTR Internal Minister. Bylaws will come into effect the week after obtaining DTR approval.
3. This right is applicable to the immediate perimeter of an installation, including the starport. It never includes the orbit or orbital quadrant.
4. The presence of an installation or the permission to build an installation in DTR territory does not remove the DTR claim to the territory in question.

Appendix A/Territorial Law: Restricted Territories

The following areas are Restricted Territories (see Article 3 Territorial Law):
- All Installation starports unless otherwise explicitly stated in the market message;
- Venice system, orbital quadrant gamma 9 including all planetary bodies;
- Venice system, orbital quadrant delta 1 including all planetary bodies;
- T.Tauri system, orbital quadrant gamma 9 including all planetary bodies;
- Straddle system, orbital quadrant delta 7 including all planetary bodies;

DTR MARTIAL TERRITORIAL LAW

Article 1 - Application

1. The DTR Speaker can place an entire system under Martial Territorial Law if he deams that the security of the system is at risk.
2. Martial Territorial Law status shall be indicated by means of a comm. sat message broadcast throughout the system in question and, where applicable, by a warning message to the general public.

Article 2 - Martial Law Status

Systems under Martial Territorial Law are governed by the DTR Defence Minister in precedence over the DTR Internal Minister. The DTR Stellar Armada doubles as a police force and has all executive rights.

Article 3 - Entry Restrictions

1. Positions except those of the DTR require a permission to enter a Restricted Territory. All positions found to operate without permission in a system under Martial Territorial Law will be posted.
2. An entry permission can be issued by the DTR Speaker or the DTR Defence Minister. It can be issued to whole affiliations or individual ships and may be limited to a specified time period.
3. The entry permission for individual starships is voided with immediate effect if they change their affiliation or upgrade to another class. For IND positions change of ownership is treated like a change of affiliation.

DTR PENAL LAW

Article 1 - Criminal procedure

1. The combined judiciary of the DTR is represented by the DTR Magistrate. His office is to judge legal issues of all kind, to produce statements and legal analyses upon request and to provide legal guidance and advice to all DTR citizens and to the legislative.
2. The DTR Magistrate is exclusively bound to the Constitution and Laws of the DTR.
3. If a criminal case is brought before the Magistrate by the Public Prosecution Authorities the accused must be informed about the trial and must be given an opportunity to mount a defence.
4. As a result of the trial the accused can be acquitted of the charge or be found guilty of violating DTR law; in the latter case he shall be fined or posted in accordance with the law. The outcome of the trial and the reasons shall be announced to the general public.

Article 2 - DTR Public Prosecution Authorities

1. The DTR Public Prosecution Authorities are to prepare a legal response to any breach of DTR law, be it deliberate or by recklessness or negligence, by action or omission.
2. The Public Prosecution Authorities shall investigate possible violations of DTR law in order to uncover the truth and present their findings to the Magistrate for trial if appropriate. They are not entitled to judge the case nor to take punitive action against possible offenders.

Article 3 - Fines

1. Fines are to be paid to the political account of the DTR Speaker. They may be paid on behalf of the fined position by any position of their affiliation except for IND positions who must pay their own fines themselves.
2. If a fine is not paid within a proscribed period the DTR will post the offending position.
3. Fines for second, third, forth etc, offenses will be multiplied by 2, 4, 8 etc.

Article 4 - Posting

1. Positions that have been posted by the DTR are considered to be enemies of the state. Every DTR position may attack a posted position at any time. The DTR Stellar Armada has standing orders to engage all DTR posted positions on sight unless ordered otherwise.
2. Posted positions or positions that support or defend a posted position in a fight with DTR positions cannot demand a compensation for damage received in battle.
3. Posting a position also revokes all mutual treaties between the DTR and said position unless explicitly stated otherwise by the DTR.

Article 5 - Attacks against the DTR

Positions that attack DTR positions or support such an attack will be posted.

Article 6 - Murder and abuse

1. Any position found guilty of abusing sentient lifeforms is fined up to 1,000,000 Stellars. Abuse of sentient lifeforms includes, but is not restricted to,
a) harmful exploration/scientific actions.
2. Severe cases of abuse, especially if they lead to death, and intentional murder are punished with posting and can lead to the banning of the affiliation.

Article 7 - Banned items

1. The following items are banned. They may not be produced in, imported into or transported through or be owned by any position in DTR territory:
a) items falling under the type Chemical Weapons (70), including but not limited to:
- Necrotic Chemicals (30950)
- Nerve Gas (880) and its blueprint (10880)
- Chemical poison (5001)
- Chemical bomb (5002) and its blueprint (15002)
b) items falling under the type Nuke (69), including but not limited to:
- Thermonuclear Weaponry (14) and it's blueprint (10014)
- Nuclear Device (357) and its blueprint (10357)
c) items falling under the type slave (6), including but not limited to:
- Human Slave (502)
- Dewiek Slave (518)
- Feline Slave (534)
- Naplian Slave (550)
- Hive Slave (566)
- Wimble Slave (582)
- Flagritz Slave (598)
- Aquaphid Slave (614)
- Kastorian Slave (630)
- Falconian Slave (646)
- Krell Slave (662)
- Native Slave (690)
- Pleasure Slaves (30007)
d) items falling under the type Meklan, including but not limited to:
- Meklan - Human (709)
e) Bio-Chemical Warfare (8589) and all technology derived in part or on whole from this technique, including but not limited to:
- Agent X (5000) and its blueprint (15000)
- Chemical bomb (5002) and its blueprint (15002)
- Nerve Gas (880) and its blueprint (10880)
2. Transgressors shall be posted. In minor cases they shall be fined 50,000 to 500,000 Stellars.
3. Banned items must be handed over to the DTR immediately. Failure to comply warrants posting in order to seize them by force.
4. The DTR Speaker can temporarily authorise positions to hold banned items in order to free slaves, dispose of items or otherwise deal with them according to their nature and in accordance with DTR law.

Article 8 - Exploitation of Resources

1. Permission to exploit any resource must be obtained 1 week prior to exploiting the resource.
2. Resources can either be classified as renewable or non-renewable.
3. Exploitation of any non-ore basaed non-renewable resource without permission will result in a fine of between 100,000 to 500,000 stellars. In severe cases, this may result in the Installation licence being revoked.
4. Over exploitation of any renewable resource can result in a fine of between 10,000 to 250,000 stellars. In severe cases, this may result in the Installation licence being revoked.
5. Very rare ores are the property of the DTR and may not be exploited without permission of the Senate.
6. Illegal drugs may not be exploited, produced or sold to the local population. Transgressors will be fined 10,000 to 500,000 stellars as can concurrently be charged under Article 15 - Contraband.

Article 9 - Merchandising Complexes

1. A permit must be obtained prior to building any merchandising complexes at an Installation.
2. If granted, the permit will include the maximum number of complexes which may be built at the Installation and the amount of trade goods which can be sold to the local population.
3. A separate permit must be obtained to sell lifeforms to the local population. Drugs may not be sold to the local population.
4. Transgressors can be fined 10,000 to 500,000 stellars. In addition, if the number of merchandising complexes is over the permitted number, then the permitted value will be halved (rounded down) and the excess complexes will be torn down. Failure to tear down the excess complexes can result in the Installation license being revoked.

Article 10 - Platforms

1. A permit must be obtained prior to building any platform control complexes or having platforms of any size in DTR territory.
2. Permission will only be granted for platforms to be located above an affiliations Installation. If granted, the permit will include the maximum number of platforms and hulls which can be present.

Article 11 - Support, Defend and Enemy Lists

1. Platforms must have all DTR on their defend list at all times.
2. Installations, platforms and warships may support and defend their own affiliation as well as the DTR and have DTR posted and/or banned affiliations on their enemy list.
3. Compensation claims against the DTR for any loss will be immediately rejected.

Article 12 - Piracy

1. Piracy is defined as any attempt to seize other property using naval weapons or armed ground forces to overcome resistance. All positions with a PIR registration have been found guilty of piracy by the EEM and are automatically considered pirates. Pirates other than PIR are posted; in addition the DTR is in a constant state of war with all PIR positions.
2. Positions found to deliberately support pirates without qualifying themselves as pirates in the act are fined 5,000 to 500,000 Stellars or, in extreme cases, posted. This includes positions who fail to engage positions with a PIR designation upon encountering them in DTR space without good reason.

Article 13 - Theft

1. Unauthorised removal of other items or failure to return stolen goods on demand from the rightful owner is fined 1,000 to 150,000 Stellars.
2. The DTR explicitly authorises the removal of resources from DTR space which are available in unlimited supply, provided that no other law is violated in the process.

Article 14 - Recklessness

1. Reckless or grossly negligent behaviour is punishable if it poses a danger to the life or welfare of sentient beings or endangers other commodities of value. Depending on the circumstances of the offence the offender is fined 1,000 to 300,000 Stellars.
2. In extremely grave cases fines of at least 200,000 Stellars or posting of the offending position can occur. Extremely grave cases include, but are not limited to, unauthorised actions that threaten to take a heavy and/or irreversible negative effect on:
a) an ecosystem;
b) the security of the DTR;
c) an alien artefact.
3. Compensation claims are not substituted or otherwise affected by a fine.

Article 15 - Contraband

1. The DTR shall maintain a list of items (see appendices A and B) which are restricted in DTR territory due to inherent dangers or other reasons. Unless an explicit permission from the DTR Speaker or the DTR Internal Minister has been obtained the same restrictions apply as mentioned in Article 7 (Banned Items) under paragraphs 1 and 3.
2. Transgressors are fined the amount specified for individual items in the appendices times the mass units involved plus a base 1,000 to 10,000 Stellars. 3. The DTR shall confiscate the items for storage, use or disposal in accordance with the law.
4. Changes to the list of restricted items (appendix A) shall be treated as and be subject to the same procedures as a change to this law; changes to the list of illegal drugs (appendix B) only require the consent of the DTR Speaker, the DTR Magistrate and the DTR Surgeon General.

Article 16 - Espionage

1. No position except those of the DTR may have an agent at a DTR Installation without the consent of the Installation owner. Transgressors will be fined 30,000 to 500,000 Stellars; in severe cases they can be posted.
2. It is illegal for all positions except those of the DTR to enter a Restricted Area (see Article 6 of the Territorial Law); this also includes the omission to immediately leave a Restricted Area at the first opportunity. Trespassers are fined 20,000 to 500,000 Stellars or are posted.

Article 17 - Cloaking

1. Positions with a cloaking device of any type, either installed or uninstaled, must register with the DTR Speaker, the DTR Minister of Internal Affairs or the DTR Minister of Defence prior to entering.
2. Cloaking, by means of a cloaking device or otherwise, is prohibited in DTR space unless a permission was obtained from the DTR Speaker, the DTR Internal Minister or the DTR Defence Minister. Transgressors will be fined 50,000 to 500,000 Stellars.

Article 18 - Independent Positions

IND positions may not enter DTR space unless they have registered themselves with the DTR authorities (see Article 2.2 of the Territorial Law). For unregistered IND positions all DTR space is treated as Restricted Territory.

Article 19 - Reports to the DTR

All positions in DTR space are obliged to report any fact of obvious importance to the DTR. This includes the finding of a hitherto unknown planetary bodies, asteroid belts, nebula, sentient species, alien artefacts or proof that DTR law has been violated. Failure to inform the DTR is fined between 1,000 and 100,000 Stellars unless another Article of this law has been violated in the same act or omission.

Appendix A/Penal Law: Restricted Items

The following items and substances have been declared Restricted Items with regards to Article 15 of the Penal Law. This list automatically also includes all substances listed in appendix B, Illegal Drugs. Sentient lifeforms on this list are not considered to be items by the DTR, nor are their basic rights revoked. Their presence on this list reflects the disdain of the DTR for the creation of artificial species. Sentient lifeform can never be owned or used as items and may move about freely in DTR space, i.e. hire transportation. However, since they cannot organically reproduce their "production", either by themselves or by a third party, is illegal under Article 15 of the Penal Law.

ItemFine in Stellars per mass unit
Chemicals type (79)50
Defoliants (881)200
Synthetic Defoliants (883)200
Phanali (701)200
Vines (30302)50
Vine Seeds (30301)80

Appendix B/Penal Law: Illegal Drugs

All items with a value of source over 0.20 and under the item class drug (51) are considered dangerous drugs with regards to Article 11 and appendix A of the Penal Law. The fine is 100 times the local market value times the MUs of drug present, with a minimum fine of 10000 stellats, Illegal drugs includes, but is not restricted to, the following examples:
ItemFine in Stellars per mass unit
Apotheosis (30051)200
Araldo Potion (30125)60
Bexon (30098)150
Black Lotus (30133)30
Brainglow (30329)50
Cool Cat (30092)200
Corlagalan (30156)180
Cortalon (30126)300
Dalium Hydroxide (30130)30
Dark Dalium Hydroxide (30485)50
Dinictophosphate (30303)100
Enzymic Drugs (30325)80
Essence of Newt (30121)120
Euphoria Plant (30129)30
Haven Opium (30557)50
Kinshi (30132)200
Kusuri (30369)280
Mojo (30260)50
Murk (30308)80
Myceal Dopaphase (30117)100
Organic Poison (30187)300
Pencilin (30213)50
Scorpian Venom (30055)300
Sleep Easy (30361)50
Slug Juice (30219)50
Tyburn Kinshi (30157)350
Immortality Alpha (30161)120