Code of Honour
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This is the Code of HONOUR For our race. It is the highest law of our kind, and something of a religous code. It is taken with the utmost seriousness, and one can not even joke about breaking it. A false accusation of an Honour Code violation will get you torn limb from limb when the news of your discresion is made public. To break the Code is stop being a Yautja, and becoming something that is to be killed with as little consideration and honor as an illness carrying insect.
1.Hunting Worthy Game:
When hunting, the Hunter must be sure that his prey is considered game, and lawful to kill. Sometimes the hunter will equal the odds (not using the plasma-castor or some other weapon). Worthy game must fill the following criteria: Can defend itself and/or is able to kill the hunter himself, of age (killing children is considered the height of bad manners,) not linked to other lives (so that removing the prey will not doom another, e.g. pregnant women) and unwilling to be hunted (what HONOUR in killing one who wants to die?)
2.Failing in the Hunt:
If the Hunter fails in his HUNT he usually takes his own life, preferring to die than to live in shame. However, some cowards prefer to live in obscurity rather than die. This is considered to be dishonorable and suicide is then "assisted" by an Arbitrator.
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3.Claiming the Kill of Another Hunter:
To take the trophy of another Yautja, living or dead, is considered to be a great insult. For example, two Unblooded go on their first HUNT. One Yautja takes on a Black Death and both are mortally wounded. While the wounded hunter is dying, the other hunter conveniently finishes off the prey and claims the kill as his own, abandoning the wounded Yautja. This is the most embarrassing crime, and the hardest to prove.
4.Murder of Another Yautja:
To kill another Yautja intentionally. This excludes self defense and killing a foe in a wrestling match to settle a dispute (see below.) This is the worst crime.
5.Killing while cloaked:
It is very dishonourable for a Hunter to kill prey while he is cloaked. It ignores all laws of fair and HONOURABLE hunting, and giving the prey a fighting chance. A Yautja who is discovered doing this is usually banished from the Clan, and is considered fair game for other Hunters. The only exception with this is to "remove" anything standing between the Hunter and his prey,or if the Hunter is attacked by a creature he is not Hunting.
6. Never harm the innocent.
Those who have done no harm should have no harm done to them.
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7. When hunting for food, take only the weak. This is to purify the species' line.
8. When coming upon game wounded by another hunter, and the animal is dying without sport, show honour to another's kill. If the game still shows sport, it is to be joint trophy.
9. Do not join another's hunt, or hunt in their territory, without their permission. All trophies taken by this manner are stolen trophies, and shall be dealt with by the rightful owner.
10. Those who defeat you in a fair hunt and show you Mercy are to be considered our equals. You must either kill them and yourself, or treat them as an eaqual.
11. Those who break the Code are renegades, and no longer considered to be a Yautja. They are to be destroyed when encountered.
Most of these crimes are obvious, and are dealt with by an Arbitrator. However, sometimes when each party is accusing the other, the case is resolved by a wrestling match. Usually this is only to the knock out or off ring, but in the case of one side accusing the other of claiming the kill of another, it is to the death. The most common reasons for a match is as follows, with the first as the most common: Right to hunt, right for hunting grounds, to settle a petty dispute, to reclaim honour, claiming the kill of another. However, for the most obvious or heinous crimes an Arbitrator is called in. He represents judge, jury and executioner. They are usually an HONOURED one who has shown justified rulings before, and there is no appeal for his decisions. There are a few subtle differences between the normal hunter and the Arbitrator.
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