Who can arrest and execute:

• Factions of all types can issue warrants for arrest and for execution against their own members, this is known as In Faction Arrest and Execute (IF A/E).
• Governments, Mercenaries, Bounty Hunter and Pirate factions can issue warrants for arrest and execution against anybody in the galaxy. This is known as Out of Faction Arrest and Execute (OOF A/E)
• Government, Mercenary, Bounty Hunter, and Pirate factions can implicitly arrest and execute within their own territory.
• Freelancers cannot arrest or execute. Someone wishing to do so must have the proper privileges within the faction for which they are arresting.
• Members of a faction can not issue an arrest warrant against their own leader, and cannot attempt to arrest their leader while they are in the same faction.
• It is possible to arrest both player characters (PCs) and non-player characters (NPCs). As NPCs do not have a unique handle, arrest warrants can only be issued for them on sight.
• Government-type factions may arrest and execute everyone within their territory. "Government Territory" is defined as any planet, system, sector that they control, and any super capital ship, capital ship, frigate, corvette, or space station that they own.
• Regular factions may authorize Government, Mercenary, and Bounty Hunter factions to issue warrants, arrest and execute within the faction's territory. "Faction Territory" is defined as any planet, system, or sector that they control, and any capital ship or space station that they own.

There are several special cases:

• Deep space and uncontrolled sectors are considered territory for all government, mercenary, bounty hunter, and pirate factions.
• Uncontrolled systems are considered territory for the faction that controls the sector.
• Uncontrolled planets are considered territory for the faction that controls the enclosing system.
• Faction owned super capital ships, capital ships, frigates, or corvettes that are in hyperspace are considered territory for the faction that owns them.
• Arrest is not possible aboard all other ships during hyperspace travel.
• Ships, vehicles, and other entities that are docked aboard a faction owned super capital ship, capital ship, frigate, corvette, or station are considered the territory of the faction.
• Planetary control extends to the square in orbit above a planet.

In order to arrest a player character (PC), you must be equipped with stun cuffs in your hand(s). If the arrest is successful the stun cuffs will be equipped to the target. Upon release the stun cuffs will fall to the ground.

To arrest, execute or release someone, you must be at the exact location of your target. This means you must be located in:

• Same room, if the target is in a room.
• Same surface coordinates, if the target is on the surface of a planet but not in a room.

If a faction is dissolved, all prisoners will be released and all warrants will be deleted.

If you are arrested, your right-hand menu will display the following image:

• Success or failure of an arrest will be calculated immediately when the arrest attempt is performed.
• After an unsuccessful attempt to arrest a character, the target is protected against any other arrest attempts for 24 hours.
• Any character has a default behaviour in case he is arrested. The possible reactions to an arrest are:
  • do not resist
  • try to talk the arrester out of it
  • run
  • hide
  • fight

• Any character can choose a general default reaction, and can also set a reaction to internal faction arrest and for every potential faction that may arrest him. This can be set on your Faction page in the Darkness interface (even if you are freelance).

  Example
  

  I can define for my character that he will not resist any arrest attempt by his own faction, and will usually try to run away in case of any other faction, except for the Galactic Empire, in which case he will fight.

  If no default behaviour is set by the player the automatic default will be hiding.

• For each selected reaction, different skills are used to determine success or failure of an arrest. In each case a primary and secondary skill is used. These are:

  method	primary skill	secondary skill
  talk	diplomacy	management
  run	speed	dodge
  hide	target: stealth arrester: perception	dexterity
  fight	strength	projectile or non-projectile weapons (whatever is higher)

  The primary skill is counted with the full skill level, the secondary with half the skill level.

• A random factor will further modify the outcome. This is necessary to determine the outcome when arrester and target have identical skill levels, and because there will never be a 100% probability of success. Even the most skilled character around can have a bad day and be taken off guard. The random modifier for arrests has been modelled in such a way that small fluctuations happen all the time, helping to determine the outcome when skill levels are identical. Large fluctuations will be rare, but it is possible, although extremely unlikely, that a character with level 5 skill will fail to arrest a skill level 0 character.
• After any attempt to arrest a character or NPC, or after a character or NPC has been released, the character or NPC will be immune to arrest attempts for 24 hours. This arrest protection does not apply to NPCs of your own faction so that it can not be abused to protect them against arrest by another faction.

When under arrest a character will not have access to communication devices and is limited in his freedom. He can not:

• Move freely. This includes leaving the room, position, or party he is in, or piloting a ship or vehicle.
• Send goods or money.
• Administrate his personal or faction assets and his faction (regardless of whether he is the owner, leader, or a member with privileges).
• Leave or join a faction.

Any player character can force an arrested character into their party, regardless of if they were the arrester.

Darkness messages can still be sent to arrested characters since they are used for out of character purposes as well.

A PC or NPC can be released from arrest by a member of the arresting faction who has issue arrest privileges.

A PC or NPC can also be broken out of arrest by another character at the same location who has an Electronic Lock Breaker item equipped.

A character has the option to turn his character into an NPC and recreate as a new character at any point they wish. The NPC will have the same handle and race as the character had and any assets will follow the same rules as when a character is killed.

In order to execute a player character (PC), there must be a death warrant issued for the player character by your faction. The executor must have the enforce death warrant privilege or the executor has issue death warrant privilege in order to proceed with the execution. The player character must be arrested in order for execution to be an option. The Execution options can be found in the Faction Arrest and Execute option area, the same page on which warrants are displayed.

As with arresting, to execute you must be at the exact location of your target. This means you must be located in:

• The same room, if the target is in a room;
• At the same surface coordinates, if the target is on the surface of a planet but not in a room.

The target must also be a member of your party.

If a faction is dissolved, all prisoners will be released and all warrants will be deleted.

Issuing a warrant for someone's death is an act that will set you down a dark path, and should not be taken lightly.

If you have a Force Meter of -10 or greater, the following effects apply:

• If the target has a Force Meter of 20 or greater, you gain -2 to your Force Meter.
• If the target has a Force Meter less than 20 but greater than -30, you gain -1 to your Force Meter

If you have a Force Meter of less than -10, you will suffer no further effects.

Arresting someone is the job of security personnel the galaxy over. It will only affect your Force Meter in extreme cases.

If you have a Force Meter of 30 or greater, the following effects apply:

• If the target has a Force Meter of 40 or greater, you gain -3 to your Force Meter.
• If the target has a Force Meter of -40 or less, you gain +3 to your Force Meter.

If you have a Force Meter of less than 30 but greater than -30, the following effects apply:

• If the target has a Force Meter of 40 or greater, you gain -1 to your Force Meter.
• If the target has a Force Meter of -40 or less, you gain +1 to your Force Meter.

If you have a Force Meter of -30 or less, the following effects apply:

• If the target has a Force Meter of 40 or greater, you gain -3 to your Force Meter.
• If the target has a Force Meter of -40 or less, you gain -3 to your Force Meter.

If the target's Force Meter is not in these ranges, there is no effect.

Execution should be the last resort, reserved only for the most evil of people. As such, if you execute someone, you suffer the following effects:

If you have a Force Meter of 30 or greater, the following effects apply:

• If the target has a Force Meter of -10 or greater, you gain -5 to your Force Meter.
• If the target has a Force Meter between -10 and -30, you gain -3 to your Force Meter.
• If the target has a Force Meter of -30 or less, you gain +5 to your Force Meter.

If you have a Force Meter of less than 30 but of -10 or greater, the following effects apply:

• If the target has a Force Meter of -10 or greater, you gain -3 to your Force Meter.
• If the target has a Force Meter of -30 or less, you gain +3 to your Force Meter.

If you have a Force Meter of less than -10 but greater than -30, the following effects apply:

• If the target has a Force Meter of -10 or greater, you gain -2 to your Force Meter.
• If the target has a Force Meter of -30 or less, you gain -2 to your Force Meter.

If you have a Force Meter of -30 or less, the following effects apply:

• If the target has a Force Meter of -10 or greater, you gain -5 to your Force Meter.
• If the target has a Force Meter between -10 and -30, you gain -3 to your Force Meter.
• If the target has a Force Meter of -30 or less, you gain -5 to your Force Meter.

Executing without a death warrant is murder.

• If the target has a Force Meter of 40 or greater, you gain -50 to your Force Meter.
• If the target has a Force Meter less than 40 but no less than -40, you gain -30 to your Force Meter.