Intergalactic Summit

Section I: Introduction - The Knighthood of the Merciful Crown shall indulge in the institution of slavery to an extent it deems prudent and just, as to be laid out by this document, and hereby accepts responsibility for the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of those in its most merciful and benevolent care.

Section II: Reasons - The practice of corrective enslavement shall be used in lieu of imprisonment, which is a wasteful and unreasonable practice that does no service to humanity, its societies or the heavenly mandate of God, Lord and Protector of all mankind in its meekness and ignorance. It is for the purpose of (re-)education and enculturation that this Order shall practice the bondage of its fellow man, with the final intent of releasing morally upstanding and peaceable individuals into the freedmen’s nations of origin, and to provide non-profit based labor to particular businesses, initiatives and enterprises deemed worthy of this charity by the Grand Master and his Counsel.

Section III: Proprietorship – No individual considered to be a knight or employee of the Knighthood of the Merciful Crown shall be allowed exclusive ownership over another man or woman. All slaves considered to be under the control of the Order shall be under the direct control of the Order itself and its leadership, and not any single member of that body. Should an initiate be found to already hold slave stock as property, that slave stock must be legally sold to proper third parties, legally freed, or donated to the Order before that initiate be sworn in as a brother or sister of the Order. Disciplinary action shall apply should a knight retain personal ownership of any slave after joining the Knighthood in full. Once legal ownership has been transferred, the leadership may choose delegate responsibility of the slaves back upon the donator, or they may be utilized for other purposes as subject to the discretion of the leadership. Upon exiting the Knighthood a knight may request that the Order consider returning ownership of his former slave stock.

Section IV: Limitation of Proprietorship - Hence this decree, no slave shall ever be kept by the Knighthood of the Merciful Crown for the sake of profit, luxury, or propagation of the institution of slavery itself. The enfeeblement of mind, weakness of spirit and laziness of body these reasons cause is to never be allowed by any knight to enter their character, nor by the Order to enter its ranks. Additionally, no enslaved individual may be used to crew a Knighthood combat ship, or otherwise be placed in an inordinately dangerous situation for the sake of convenience of effort or cost.

Section V: Subjects – The Knighthood of the Merciful Crown shall take and retain slaves of only two types: prisoners of honorably conducted warfare, and committers of/accomplices to criminal acts (as deemed criminal by the Order). Any slaves that are in bondage through accident of birth or abduction from peaceful occupations shall be freed or donated to other organizations/individuals as considered prudent by the leadership. The Order shall consider any individual captured on the field of battle as its property, to be utilized or tried for crimes at its behest.

Section VI: Practice – The labor of Knighthood slave stock may be used by the Order itself for limited purposes, such as to to staff hangars, offices, its headquarters and other low-risk, low-importance positions. All other slaves will be outsourced as rental labor to entities and individuals of the Order’s choice. Rental charges shall be collected at a rate that is only enough to cover the Order’s administrative costs for management. All renters shall agree to the Order’s terms for slave treatment. A slave may not be worked for more than ten hours a day. For every eight hours of labor, at least one hour of religious or academic education must be administered to them. No Vitoxin, transcranial microcontrollers or similar methods and devices may be used for the purpose of slave control amongst the Order’s slave holdings. Glaive collars may be used in exceptional cases, and may only be administered with the consent of the Order. If a method of control exceeding this is deemed to be required, it shall be administered by the Order and not the renter. Slaves may be donated to select mining corporations if they prove to be beyond the Order’s methods of control.

Section VII: Terms of Release – Slaves taken as prisoners of war shall be utilized until the war they were captured in has ended, they are used in a fair and equal prisoner exchange or they are unable to perform basic labor. If any of these conditions are met they will be released to their nation of origin. Slaves taken as criminals will not be eligible for prisoner exchange, and will only be released if the Order deems them capable of living law-abiding and peaceful lives in their nation of origin.