Idea - Space Interpol

Sounds cool, but doesnt the USMC do that?

 

maybe
the laws would have to be justified and agreed upon as a basis for all laws
then as in America, each state (or colony in this case) will have their own laws, but by law the universe must obey some simple and agreeable ones
for example:
slavery is illegal
murder is illegal without justification
cult-like behavior that instigates murder
etc.

 

That actually, now that I think about it, sounds pretty good.

 

this sounds like the most evil thing ever

have fun outlawing florans that are not inherently bad for practicing slavery, defining what is and what isn't a cult on an universal basis, pushing your own laws and ideas that are going to be the product of your culture and philosophies to all the colonies

 

I guess this could be done, but it would probably end up being portrayed as a rather evil and disliked faction lol
EDIT: a bit like the judoon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judoon they'll just piss people off

 

The big thing with this is actually getting a place with your own jurisdiction. You may be able to enforce said law on your own planets, but getting to the point of doing it galaxy-wide would require more than that. Primarily because the galaxy has its major areas that are governed by major bodies. And each area has its own laws, as well. Just mentioning that, because of that fact, galaxy-wide laws would be difficult to even situate, much less enforce.

 

Hm. I like this idea. I'd be willing to create some kind of office or whatever that would be Space Interpol's HQ if need be.

If a method of fixing Lotus' programming can come into play, then she would be more than willing to help in this. She was made to create peace, after all. Even if a few heads roll in the process.

 

For once, I'm behind one of your ideas. Pretty much a lawful good politically-neutral Criminal Investigations Service. I liek. Maz would liek.

Now I just need to get a reason to actually want to talk to the character of yours starting this.

 

there is nothing wrong with this oocly, but on an ic standpoint the enforcement of laws not everyone agrees on is very controversial and that is how lawmaking works in real life, so you need the general populace's opinions

 

In other words: yes.

 

Along with this, Space Interpol could easily act as a Universal Court that could hold trials and such. There would be no bias since Space Interpol is just there to keep peace, after all.

 

What he said. You can make all the rules and laws you want, it's getting people to agree to be a part of it that's going to give you problems.

It's a neat idea, one we tried to bring in with the Marshal Service. But good luck getting everyone to agree to it.

 

Technically--and Unix/Sixxon/Moar correct me if I am shoving this idea into the mud with misinterpretation--their goal isn't necessarily to make EVERYONE agree with EVERYONE'S diverse laws or even their own "standard" laws. Their goal is something more to the effect of "Oh, someone clearly murdered an innocent on your planet, X, then fled to hide on Planet Y to avoid the penalty of your law? That's not right! We'll gladly nab them alive and bring them back here to be tried for their crimes." or "Your daughter was wrongfully kidnapped and is possibly being either tortured or sold as a slave? That's terrible! We'll do what we can to locate her and bring her back alive."

Of COURSE they'd be a bit hesitant in matters along the lines "Your cultural laws dictate that you must 'Kill Sssstab kill sstaab sstab sstab' anyone who you think looks funny and the innocent bystander you were going to kill-stab fled the planet in fear when he caught on to your intentions? ...Well good luck with that." or "You visited planet Y and saw someone commit something that's a crime on planet Z? ...Ok, so what?"

It's an employable galactic law enforcement agency who act completely within the laws of the individual settlements and can only act outside of said laws when the leaders of said settlement throws their support with them and allow them to do such. This is especially true when the settlements meet the "generic" criteria outlined in their tenants of upholding proper justice, which ultimately no matter what culture, species, beliefs, or morals are represented is a consistent theme in any organized system that isn't run by a sadistically insane crime lord that just wants to kill everyone and doesn't care who/what/where/when/why. People don't like it when other people do mean things to them, and they want the mean people to be punished for being mean to them.