IMPERIAL EDICT 97
This Executive Order is the enabling act for the activities of Imperial Agents and the use of Imperial Warrants. Unusually obscure for such a wide-ranging and powerful edict, it is nonetheless on file at all Imperial installations. The edict text runs to 34 pages plus encrypted appendices. Much of it is pure legalese; when distilled down, it is extremely direct—assist designated holders without reservation.
Imperial Edict 97 requires unlimited assistance to the holders of specific documents, written, oral, or electronic, without regard to rank, privilege, station, protocol, or security. Holders are the equivalent of the Emperor himself.
Holders may be designated Agents, or may be empowered through an imperially-signed Warrant.
Imperial Star Marines are the designated implementers of the Edict: trained in its terms and instructed to obey a holder’s orders “even if it’s stupid, or suicidal, or without explanation?”
THE RULES
Agent Standing Orders (Executive Summary)
Rule 1. You speak with the voice of the Emperor. Brook no resistance.
Rule 2. Millions of lives depend on your actions;you may need to spend some of them in the process.
Rule 3. You act through your team; build it (quick- ly) by whatever means available.
Rule 4. Your team is your greatest asset: use them; depend on them.
Rule 5. You hold the ability to punish and reward; do both.
Rule 6. Right action requires intelligence