There seems to be no doubt about the trial of the Melova radicals. We captured all the senior officers of the Melova 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 law could not even set a maximum sentence for them.
Ninety percent of the officers in the Radical Faction committed several serious crimes, each of which exceeded the upper limit of sentencing!
Therefore, at the beginning of the trial, according to the usual practice, the court's coordinating host made a prediction for these Melova officers that the unlimited penalty would be applied. That is to say, after analyzing all existing codes and cases, the coordinating host believes that even if the trial is over, the second result will not occur. This penalty is a very special judgment conclusion of the imperial court, and its other name is "the fourth district".
This can be said to be quite a rare situation. The extreme execution ground of the fourth district actually rarely appears in the judgments of the Imperial Court. The extreme criminal of a crime that would not appear in large numbers under normal circumstances. Since the Fourth District was established and the Imperial Court was linked to the Fourth District, there have been only a few hundred criminals of this kind: and this is the number that has only accumulated among the trillions of people in the entire macro world. A normal intelligent creature, when the mind is sober and the surrounding basic moral environment is normal, no matter how cruel it is, it will not be easy enough to go crazy enough to enter the fourth district. There should be a minimum psychological limit, so the space passage leading to the fourth district, dubbed the "flea alley", is generally 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 Barryan successfully led a group of villains that shocked the host of the court, so much so that I heard that the coordinating host planned to give it to this group of Mayors. The Lowa people developed a case database, extracted them one by one from criminology, and formed a separate subject...
However, despite the pre-judgment, the normal trial process must still be carried out. Today is the day for the trial of some senior military officers of the radical faction. At the initiative of my sister, I brought her to the court.
This court located in Shadow City is the highest judicial organ of the empire, and it is only used to deal with extreme crimes 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, hovering above the parent planet Gaia like an upside-down empty island. All residents of Shadow City live in the front of this aerial city, but this The back of the air city is not empty either. There are also a small number of imperial facilities distributed here, and they are arranged along the spine of the raised sky island, like a group of palaces built against the mountains. Most of these facilities are the city maintenance devices of Shadow City, such as the energy center, the math stabilizer, and the synchronous data transmission array with Gaia, and the remaining facilities include some military factories and secret departments. These buildings are scattered and arranged in the large desolate hills behind the shadow city, in stark contrast to the bustling capital of the worlds on the other side of the land.
The Supreme Court of the Empire is located in the very center of this dark, desolate land, on the highest point of the raised sky island's back. 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. The entire building was cast from solid interstellar alloy, glowing with a silver-white cold light, without any decorations on its surface. Looking from the air, the courtroom looked like a sharp cross nailed to the ground.
In front of the entrance of the court is a giant holographic projection of me and Sandora, which should be equivalent to the stone lion at the entrance... Well, I know this is a bit problematic, but I have always understood it this way. And under the giant projection, there is a line of big characters written in imperial characters:
Confess everything! For those who enter this door, lying is like lying to the emperor!
"... I still feel like two stone lions..." After silently reading the line of bold characters floating in the air, I couldn't help but bring up the association about the stone lions again, "I heard from Sandora that every day in the old empire era This is the rule at the entrance of the highest court in every sky area. There should be a statue of the emperor, and then write this sentence. But now the empire has two emperors ruling in one ruling area at the same time, so we can only put one on each side of the gate. it's..."
My sister was a little absent-minded. If it was normal, she would definitely have a lot to say when she saw the two provocative projections at the door, but now, she just waved her hand and dragged me in.
The trial scene and law enforcement process of the Imperial Court may be very different from the court in the impression of many people.
There is no seat for the jury, no defense lawyers for both parties, and the "judge" does not need any defensive action, nor does it accept any subjective third-party allegations. All trial-related information gathering is done by a completely independent team of "collectors". The members of this team are senior secret agents and information recording experts. They think purely rationally when they work. They do not make any comments on criminal acts and perpetrators. Their only job is to collect all available information 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 an accurate snapshot of a period of history, including the scene when the crime occurred, the actions of all personnel, and all The causes of the above-mentioned actions by the personnel, the consequences of each related individual action... everything is made into a list without any rhetorical elements. And that information was submitted to a special jury. The trial group consists of three court hosts, three judges, and three recorders. The court host is divided into coordinating host, database host and logical host. The coordinating host is responsible for unifying and comparing all the information—from the collector team and the database host—to ensure that each piece of information is accurately corrected to ensure full compliance with the Code. The coordinating host will predict the entire case in advance based on its own comparison results. This pre-judgment result is not linked to the final judgment, but it will be recorded and used to correct the next generation of hosts in the future, and then the coordinating host will compare itself The results are submitted to the logic host, and the logic host begins to analyze the case according to the Imperial Code, and at the same time corrects the final sentencing according to the perceptual thinking mode of intelligent creatures, while the database host does not participate in any analysis work throughout the process, it is only responsible for accurately submitting the data available for analysis, Then save 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 kind of trial guarantee absolute fairness
— No, it only guarantees 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 apostles of Xiling do not have the time to study an absolute fairness the result of. The code of law that prevails in the entire empire's ruled area is actually more like a "final border". Within this final border, each race can formulate its own laws according to its own morality and worldview, and it can do whatever it wants, but once contacted At the "final frontier", the three mainframes of the Imperial Court will ignore your race, ignore your thoughts, and convert everything about you into data, and then compare it with the Imperial Code, as if a person who is not qualified screw into a standard screw hole, and any unqualified parts will be ruthlessly chipped off, and the judge, as a sentient intelligent creature, whose worldview and morality play the only role in this process You can choose to be cut in place with one knife or divided into twenty knifes and slowly cut - and this selection process has nothing to do with you.
So the Imperial Court is not so much a legal department as it is a "debugging" factory full of Xiling's characteristics. In this factory, there is no need for too much communication between the "bad parts" being "repaired" and the engineers responsible for "repairing". The "trial" in the impression of the Apostles of Xiling is like this. Special creatures that will never violate the code of law under certain circumstances, they have difficulty understanding why intelligent individuals actively violate the interests of the race and the motherland, so they regard these criminals as "malfunctioning machines", if the machine is broken, then It needs to be repaired, and if it is too bad, it needs to be disassembled and thrown into the reactor. As far as the court hosts are concerned, they can't see the difference between a general who escaped on the battlefield and a screw with one thread missing. Both need to be "sharpened", but the former will be cut to death.
So what if something is so broken that it can't be "repaired" at all, and even thrown into the reactor may contaminate the furnace
That's what's known as the Uncapped Penalty—District 4.
It has to be said that such a court is completely different from the judicial organs established by the perceptual and conventional races, and it even challenges the worldview of many people, but as I said just now: it never guarantees that its judgments are universally applicable Any worldview 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 Apostles of Xiling: Be a good part, otherwise it will be recast. Things: 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 what this part thinks, under the condition that the interests of the empire are guaranteed, there is no People care about irrelevant things.
However, ordinary races in the empire's ruled area don't have to worry about being thrown into such a court, and I don't have to worry that such a court will make those civilians who are not suitable for the iron-blooded thinking of the empire feel uneasy. The reason is simple: the imperial court does not judge the parents. …
The law formulated by the Apostles of Xiling is very interesting. It has no civil law, no economic law, and no contract law-these various legal categories make those one-minded guys very confused. Even Sandora said that she couldn't understand why these principles What should be obeyed by the whole people still needs to be enacted by law, so that the people can understand what to do. The most entries in the Xiling Code are formulated for things that sound like fortresses such as imperial military orders, race survival, and world safety. They feel that only things like the life and death of the universe and the continuation of race development are necessary for legislation, so Ordinary races have almost no chance of going to the imperial court. The "final boundary" of the Imperial Code is wider than you imagined, and crimes within this scope still need ordinary "human justice" to solve. And those guys who accidentally touch the "final frontier" and go beyond human justice...
Basically, no one will have an opinion when thrown into the imperial court.
To put it simply, in the area ruled by the empire, most of the regular races must abide by the human justice, and it is still the human justice that is responsible for managing them. The imperial code is a conceptual level standard that is impossible for ordinary people to break the law. , regard the Imperial Code as a "house" used to regulate the scope of people's activities, then the building area of this house has reached one million square kilometers... So I looked up, and the mortal races who marveled at the mountains had to live in this place. Find a floor tile in the unprecedented big house and build your own house...
So sometimes I can't help but think that maybe the so-called God's dogma feels the same to mortals: God's codes are awe-inspiring and irresistible, but after you really get in touch with them, you will find that as a mortal , It is difficult to reach even the gates of breaking the law-Melovians should be proud of this. As a mortal race, they have committed almost all of the most serious felonies in the empire: while serving as imperial servants cases of treason, killing of officers, theft of imperial property, unlawful genocide, and attacks on the imperial court. The above-mentioned crimes are really not something ordinary mortal races can get. Sometimes, when the civilization gap between the two races reaches a certain level, all kinds of unimaginable and wonderful phenomena will really happen...
When my sister and I came to such a court, what we saw was naturally a boring scene. Apart from the special seats reserved for us, there was no "spectator crowd" at all. The elliptical trial hall is divided into two ends, one end is the position of the judge, and the three court hosts are three almost identical silver-white cylindrical machines. The three cylindrical hosts with a height of more than ten meters are tilted back about 30 degrees, half buried in the silver-white alloy wall of the hall, and on the seat in front of the base of the host, the judge is displaying the name of the next criminal. In the holographic projection, after a period of comparison and processing, the host and the judge will jointly make a judgment. After this, the perpetrator has a speaking period - during which you can announce a guilty plea, or you can announce a protest.
Yes, you can express objection to the verdict, which is a somewhat unexpected setting, if the person being judged is dissatisfied with the verdict and can provide more case information on the spot that is not within the scope of the “collector”’s knowledge , then his protest is effective. According to the logic of the trial of the Apostles of Xiling, 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” process. In practice, we have never encountered a situation where court “collectors” omit information. As for the several Melova officers who are being tried, they have no room for exoneration.
The judges of course noticed our arrival, but they didn't stop working, they just nodded in the direction where my sister and I were seated. The person who is now being sentenced is a senior military officer of Melova. In addition to those "general items", such as treason and plundering of imperial property, his crimes also include personally planning and implementing the extermination of three innocent low-level civilizations—and It was done in an act of revenge after those three civilizations declared their surrender.
The court host made a low humming sound. The coordinating host was submitting information to the database. The logical host was analyzing the data points after the comparison in an orderly manner. The database host was silent and did not express any opinions on the case. Three judges connected to the dedicated Network, and exchange some opinions with judges in other courts. After the logic host compiled the analysis conclusions into a document and released it, the three judges quickly judged the document to determine the correctness of the document and the accuracy of the comparison process. Sex, and then they told the prisoner the results of the trial—another guy who needed to be sent to the Fourth Ward, but his crimes were surprisingly minor compared to the rest of his countrymen, so his time in the Fourth Ward was only a few hundred years.
The Melova officer seemed unacceptable to the outcome of the trial, but he did not have the conditions to protest: he had no further testimony that could be taken by the coordinating host. So the officer became agitated in front of the judgment seat, like an ordinary person dominated by fear: even though they once thought they were gods.
At this moment, my elder sister suddenly stood up.
Maybe it's because she has been deified, or maybe it's for some other reason. The elder sister who has always been kind to others now has a faint stinging aura. The officers of Melova in front of the trial stand were stunned. The breath was a little familiar, and then they raised their heads one after another.
"Emperor... Your Majesty..."
A war criminal said in amazement that if it wasn't for the shackles on the seat, he might have slipped to the ground.
All the restless war criminals also quieted down... It can't be said to be quiet, but more like losing the ability to move in the face of great fear. The other war criminals waiting for trial also fell into the same state of panic. The face that reappeared in front of them took away everyone's courage and sense of resistance. , Tens of thousands of years have passed, it seems that the sense of oppression that the emperor brought to them is still there today. I couldn't help but glanced at my sister: Tens of thousands of years ago, when my sister was another person, what kind of ruler would she be
Finally, I turned my eyes back to the courtroom, looking for Barryan among the war criminals. At first, I couldn't find him. I thought he wasn't on the waiting list for this batch, but soon I found him in the corner. This once invincible tyrant bent his body, and seemed to be trying his best to hide in a shadow that would not be noticed by my sister. He was so depressed that I suddenly lost my interest in continuing to pay attention to him: with Tu La Zorby, this really is a total loser.
"It seems that there is nothing to see, they are already strangers to me," my sister sighed softly, took my hand and left the seat, "Ah Jun, let's go... Wait a few days, I will Meet that Turazzo again." RS