04-04-2021, 07:15 AM | #21 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Legal Immunity
Even if you are a for-real intelligence officer running dangerous covert operations, what a player wants for the operation and what a professional civil servant in the Foreign Service can sign off on being authorized are going to be wildly different, diplomatic pouch or no.
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04-04-2021, 08:19 AM | #22 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Legal Immunity
The only diplomatic pouch that was seen in play in the EU on Mars campaign was a large crate that came in from Brussels. The contents were petabytes of one-time pads, and the Ambassador's official supply of high-quality coffee beans.
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04-04-2021, 02:28 PM | #23 | |
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A compromise to ease co-existence between the OP individual and society establishes the legal fiction they are sovereign nations. They don't own any actual territory, but they enjoy the equivalent of diplomatic immunity, and any place they choose to live is treated like an embassy. As a rule, Muggle authorities treat the character with the same respect due to a superpower or nuclear state. In practice, the super agrees they shall not threaten the security of the world, and the human governments agree to look the other way about any crime they may do. The only feasible check, should such a super go rogue and do something like large-scale atrocities or environmental devastation, would be a posse of superpowered individuals that is strong enough to overwhelm them. However, those other high-powered wizards or supers, assuming they exist, cannot be bothered to intervene if their peer occasionally abuses some unlucky Muggle. Quite likely it is b/c they enjoy the same privileges and find it too convenient. Last edited by Irioth; 04-04-2021 at 02:49 PM. |
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04-04-2021, 05:21 PM | #24 | |
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04-05-2021, 07:45 AM | #25 | ||
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Legal Immunity
These posts from Legal Enforcement powers thread are probably relevant: once you start extended Legal enforcement powers and Legal Immunity the difference between them can get blurry.
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It seems like there's a pretty plain divide between them though: Legal Enforcement Powers is built around an authority to make demands with the force of law (in particular demands to surrender to your arrest and demands to let you conduct searches, but I could see that being extended). If someone defies your authority it's not just you they're defying, it's the entire system that accords you your Powers. Legal Immunity doesn't give you any coercive power at all, it simply prevents regular laws from being enforced against you. If you have extreme Legal Immunity you might be able to kidnap someone or toss their house and get away with it, but your victim isn't obligated to cooperate. However, the higher levels of Legal Enforcement Powers and of Legal Immunity do have much the same trend towards 'no rules govern your actions'.
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04-05-2021, 05:31 PM | #27 | |
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04-05-2021, 05:38 PM | #28 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Legal Immunity
One cliche from cop shows is a villain with legal immunity. A diplomat's dependent or even a prince involved in some outrageous crime. Of course in real life that is usually for parking violations and if he behaves badly enough will be declared persona non grata (a fancy word for "tossed out on his ear").
https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Diplomatic_Impunity
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