Imperial Penal Code

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"I have infinite patience, sir, being a droid. However, I am constrained to point out that your current actions would seem to be in violation of the Imperial Legal Code, Section Fourteen, Subsection Nine, Part C-dash-one, which forbids tampering with autonomous droid function without official permission."
―P-RC3[1]

The Imperial Penal Code, also known as the Imperial Legal Code and simply Imperial Code, was a body of laws issued by the Galactic Empire. It represented the branch of Imperial legal statutes concerned with criminal law. It consisted of seventeen volumes.

Documented extracts include:

One particular model of the groomer (an advanced model of the older XP-21) contained all seventeen volumes of the code.

The Imperial Code was enforced separately and parallel to local systemic laws. For example, while smuggling some restricted spice would be fined with a small fee according to the Imperial Code, the same violation was punishable by execution in some particular systems.[2]

Behind the scenes

It is unclear whether the Imperial Military Code was included within this body of law as a subsection (eg, Section 14), or whether it was an independent statute, with the Imperial Legal Code representing the wider law, not limited to the military, but applicable to the galactic community of Imperial citizens.

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Death Star
  2. ↑ Shadows of the Empire Planets Guide
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