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There are a lot of Amentan countries. Vanda Nossëo representatives are dispatched to all of them. These Elves (two with black hair, one with silver) take a shuttle down from the lightleaper to a country called Calado, and radio ahead to request permission to land at a elegant modern spaceport.
okay by comparison Voa and Tapa look like thriving modern democracies
"They'll have their own attorneys advising them on what testimony best serves their interests in the case, but it could be that they're better off stating that they thought they were executing a lawful arrest order. If you'd told them to kill the Elves would that also be legal -"
"Only if the Elves were behaving violently or trying to escape. ...escape less magically. But I wouldn't have been much questioned if I'd said that happened."
"See, if some of our people got kidnapped in a country that was formally anarchic, 'there are no local laws against what I did' wouldn't be a defense. So it's going to be helpful to be able to describe to the court something that would still not be permitted even if we decided to permit - the usual operations of the Calador government, so that acknowledging the proceedings of the Calador government doesn't amount to 'anything's legal'."
"It would not have been legal to kill them unless certain conditions obtained; it simply would have been fairly easy to fraudulently claim those conditions."
"And it wasn't apparent to you they were in any more distress than anyone would be at having their ship towed down -"
Sigh. "They make very good witnesses. Perfect memories, all agree to the truth effect, all followed whatever their procedures guide said to the T."
"You're going to have very photogenic very sad people testifying to the court that they were traumatized and had no idea what to expect next because no one gave the faintest indication this was an arrest or that there were any legal constraints on their future treatment."
"I would have told them they were not free to go. I wouldn't have ordered them killed, to be clear, I didn't want them dead, it just would have been legal if they'd resisted arrest."
"Okay. I can also put together a motion for the court to kick this back to Calado for evaluation there, if you expect that to go in your favor - it's not very likely to be approved but it doesn't hurt to try - or technically I could move to have Ambaróna try it but I don't think that looks any better odds-wise."
"The nation of origin of the victims. It wouldn't be that hard to get the case moved there, but it's an Elf country, they're going to be even more inclined to sympathize with Elves who got imprisoned and one of their royals got involved which I am not confident would not influence the court."
"I will file a motion to move it to Calado but I don't expect it to get approved. Are there other questions I can answer for you -"