Free Trader Mary's Dream
Copyright© 2005 by FozzieBare
The Right of Protection
Science Fiction Sex Story: The Right of Protection - Captain Alex Donovan has a reason to hate pirates and slavers. He also has a hot ship under his command. Can he ever get enough payback to live up to his ship's name? If his new crew have anything to say about it, he will!
Caution: This Science Fiction Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including Ma/Fa Ma/ft Consensual Romantic Fiction Science Fiction
(Author’s Note: Every so often, I may post some background on a key part of the universe that could use further explanation but I couldn’t find a way to shoehorn it into the text -- FB)
An excerpt from “Rights and Responsibilities” 37th edition
The Right Of Protection:
The Terran Federation formed from the remnants of the Terran Empire, a neo-feudalist reaction to the Collapse that shattered interstellar travel. Under the Empire, feudal relationships were normal, where citizens would pledge themselves to lesser nobles, and lesser nobles up the line, until the Emperor. Nobles were expected to take care of those underneath them, through a sense of noblesse oblige (the inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged.)
This was not always honored. This could become fraught with peril, as nobles literally had the power of life and death over their subjects. One of the ways that this power was fenced in was the Right Of Protection.
A person could make a request to another Noble to intervene in a matter between the requester and the 2nd Noble. If the Noble granted the request, the requester would transfer their allegiance to the new Noble, and the old Noble could not act against them without violating the Empire’s laws.
This was rarely requested, and usually having one or more of your subjects actually succeed in petitioning for a Right of Protection was a sign that things weren’t good in your area, and usually would be used against them in social circles.
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