I would never pardon a follower if they did ME wrong, but if they made a “mistake” and were then penalized by the legal community, I might decide to save them from doing prison time — particularly if they’re a delicate primate who wouldn’t last very long in a prison population composed of heavier hominids with questionable sexual practices.
I once had an aide-de-camp, a ethically deficient uber-chimp named “Pipper”, who was a consummate lickspittle. Pipper did everything I told him, no matter how demeaning or insane. I mean, I once asked him to take the Imperial Shuttle to the Immersia VI to get me a shrimp-and-banana frappe in the middle of a close fought battle with the Slug People of Neebie-neebie. (The Gorilloid-with-Fezes Brigade finally turned the tide of battle in our favor when they abandoned their signature broadswords for salt shakers.)
But Pipper was quite happy to get me the frappe, even though Immersia VI is an all-water planet, and he can’t even swim.
And then he was arrested for illegally wire-tapping a few of the other Imperial uber-chimp’s phones. Now, technically speaking, he wasn’t allowed to do that, even though I’d ordered it, so he was convicted. But in the end, I kept him out of the soap-dropping machine.
What if they do something wrong to you?
Well, let’s just say there wouldn’t be much less for the judicial system to convict.
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