Badges are great at making you look official. Seriously, you flash a badge at someone, half the time they won't even check, you get the attitude right. Fall over themselves to help you 'cause you had a bit of plastic wrapped card. Marvelous! *sudden thought* Do you even have police? You know, to protect and serve, maintain order, enforce the law, prevent and detect crime, all that?
They certainly seem like useful things to have. I'll have to see one sometime.
*shakes her head* No, nothing like that. Each Queen and her court sees to the maintaining of order in her district or territory. Those who have broken the law are either dealt with by those they wronged, or brought before the Queen if those wronged aren't able to take care of it themselves.
Quasi-fuedal. Like the Shi'ar. Well, except the Shi'ar kinda have police. Except they're more military enforcers than part of a judicial branch; more army than police force, but with elements of both. And all the local... um. They report to local... um, there's no equivalent title, really. Sort of like a General, but also Judge. And keeper of their domains. Who in turn report to the high, uh... council? And the council reports to the Majestor or Majestrix, the Imperial Leader of the Empire. Which is a hereditory position occupied by members of the Neramani family. ...aaand you really didn't need to be told any of that, sorry.
I suppose a Queens guards would serve as something like police, though Queens in Kaeleer don't seem to have them the same way Dorothea does. So, that would be like your Shi'ar's military enforcers, yes?
There aren't really laws, per se. Not like you seem to have them. A Queen may do as she pleases until someone stronger than her stops her. If Queens come into conflict, then the one stronger, or the one with the higher status would generally win.
Of course, Dorothea's not a Queen, but she has Queens who bow to her due to her strength. None of them have a dark enough Jewel to stand against her save Jaenelle and Karla in Kaeleer.
Rule of power. The Kree have a similar system except they all have this weird thing where if the Supreme Intelligence tells them to do anything, they ALL just do it, not just the little weak guys. Even though it's pretty much just a talking brain and they have all the massive weapons. Doesn't seem to bother them that it's set them up to die a couple of thousand times. Weird. And there's that whole thing where if you're Kree, you're in the Kree military whether you know it or not. ...do you have, like. I dunno what to-- Like, chivalry laws? I mean, social, not legal laws. Like rules of conduct? Like on Titan, even the worst of enemies wouldn't enter each other's rooms without permission. I mean, there's no law against it, they just... don't.
We have Protocol, yes. Social laws designed to keep the balance of power in check. To protect the weaker among us. To care for the land and the landen--those who are not Blood. Who have no Craft. No magic. Not everyone follows it and it's been twisted into something to oppress, but that's not what it's supposed to be.
*nods* The Skrull's edicts against mutants started as an attempt to stop a disease, sort of like an accelerated cancer, in which their natural shape-shifting abilities went into overdrive, each cell attempting to transform repeatedly and independently... These days it's used as an excuse to weed out anyone that might a threat to their genetic 'purity'. Good intentions always seem to get usurped.
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Date: 2006-04-12 08:51 pm (UTC)Sometimes Uncle Saetan gets all frustrated and yells at Daemon, but calls him Lucivar. See, we could avoid all of that!
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Date: 2006-04-12 08:49 pm (UTC)You're no fun.
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Date: 2006-04-12 08:54 pm (UTC)I heard that rumored somewhere.
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Date: 2006-04-12 08:58 pm (UTC)The badge is clearly the most important thing if you're making such a claim.
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Date: 2006-04-12 09:09 pm (UTC)*shakes her head* No, nothing like that. Each Queen and her court sees to the maintaining of order in her district or territory. Those who have broken the law are either dealt with by those they wronged, or brought before the Queen if those wronged aren't able to take care of it themselves.
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Date: 2006-04-13 08:49 pm (UTC)I suppose a Queens guards would serve as something like police, though Queens in Kaeleer don't seem to have them the same way Dorothea does. So, that would be like your Shi'ar's military enforcers, yes?
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Date: 2006-04-13 08:57 pm (UTC)Of course, Dorothea's not a Queen, but she has Queens who bow to her due to her strength. None of them have a dark enough Jewel to stand against her save Jaenelle and Karla in Kaeleer.
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