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| STARFLEET RULES & DIRECTIVES PAGE TWO |
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| GENERAL ORDER 10 If there exists eyewitness testimony by senior officer or similar verifiable evidence that an individual has violated the Prime Directive, said individual may be relieved of duty by a dully sworn representitiveof the Federation government and placed under immediate arrest. The governmental representative shall then take such action as he deems necessary to minimize the results of the violation. |
| GENERAL ORDER 11 Starfleet officers with the rank of captain or higher are granted full authority tonegotiate conditions of agreement and/or treatieswith legal representatives of non-Federation planets. In such circumstances, the acting officer carries de facto powers of a Federation Special Ambassador. Any and all agreements arranged in this manner are subject to approval by the Chief of starfleet Operations and the Secretary of Starfleet. |
| GENERAL ORDER 12 Federation officers may violate Neutral Zone areas as designated by treaty only if such action is required to save the lives of Federation citizens under conditions of extremme emergency. |
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| GENERAL ORDER 13 Except when orders state the contrary, Starfleet personel will respect the territorial integrity of independent planetary systems and governments, and will not violate territorial space belonging to such worlds. |
| GENERAL ORDER 14 Starfleet personel may intervene in local planetary affairs to restore general order and to secure the lives and property of Federation citizens only upon recieving a direct order to do so from a civilian offical with the title of governer or higher. |
| GENERAL ORDER 15 No flag officer shall travel into a potentially hazardous area without suitible armed escort. |
| GENERAL ORDER 16 Starfleet personnel may extend tecnological , medical, or other scientific assistance to a member of a previously unrecognized sentient species only if such assistance in no way compromises the Prime Directive or the security of the Federation or Starfleet. |
| GENERAL ORDER 17 Starfleet vessel captains are to consider the lives of their crew members as sacred. In any potentially hostile situation, the captain will place the lives of his crew above the fate of his ship |
| GENERAL ORDER 18 Upon being accused of treason against the Federation, Starfleet personnel may demand a trial conducted by the Federation judiciary. If the individual is aquitted, Starfleet Command shall have no further recourse against the accused in said matter |
| GENERAL ORDER 19 Except in times of declared emergency, Starfleet personnel may under no circumstances convey personnel or material between planets or planetary systems when there is reason to believe that said personnel or material may be used to conduct aggression. This order applies to independant worlds within the Federation as well as to Federation members. |
| GENERAL ORDER 20 Officers and personnel of Starfleet Command may employ whatever means necessary to prevent the possession, transportation, sale, or commercial exchange of sentient bieng held angainst thier wishes within the boundaries of Federation space. |
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