Chapter 407: A Perverse Logic Is Also a Logic

After being approved by the Human Civilization Governing Committee, an announcement was released under the official account of Human Civilization on the Silver Alliance Network.

The title was "Strongly condemn the coalition forces of the five major civilizations, including Lanso and Joao, for brazenly attacking our non-military targets", and the content described in detail what happened in the past period of time next to the neutron star numbered RXJ185635-3754 in the direction of the Corona Australis.

The announcement first stated that this was a completely non-military and normal scientific expedition. For this purpose, Human Civilization dispatched a total of 50,000 people, including 20,000 elite scientists, and detailed the composition of the scientific expedition fleet, attached a large amount of evidence, and explained from multiple angles that this action was completely unrelated to the military.

Afterwards, the announcement described how the coalition forces of the five major civilizations brazenly went out and directly destroyed the entire scientific expedition fleet, committing cruel massacres, seriously deviating from the purpose of the Silver Alliance, and seriously violating the regulations of the Silver Alliance.

Finally, Human Civilization claimed that it would never give up on this matter and would definitely file a lawsuit with the Silver Alliance Court.

In fact, as early as the incident, human civilization had already issued a notice, strongly condemning the coalition of the five major civilizations, and demanding compensation, severe punishment of the murderer, and public apology.

The ending of the incident, of course, did not cause any waves. The five major civilizations were too lazy to even issue a notice, and did not even make a single excuse, completely ignoring the human announcement.

What a joke, we are now in a state of war! Not to mention destroying one of your scientific expedition fleets, even if we destroy all the residents of your entire planet, so what? What a big deal?

Is there not much of this kind of thing in the Milky Way? Didn't you humans destroy several third-level civilizations in a row and massacre hundreds of billions of people?

The notice was over at the time, without any waves. The relevant civilizations that have always been paying attention to the development of human civilization, no one expected that humans would bring up the old matter again, and the wording was much more severe, and they would even go to the Silver Alliance Court to sue.

This is a bit inexplicable.

In addition, human civilization made a lot of noise some time ago. It won the first place in the Milky Way Cleanup Operation, was promoted to the fourth-level civilization quickly under heavy pressure, and surpassed the Yunguang civilization. I don’t know how many civilizations that have dealt with humans and those that have not dealt with humans have begun to pay attention to humans, so this announcement has actually attracted some attention.

Many civilizations have begun to pay attention to what the human civilization is doing, how this matter will progress next, and whether this incident involves the secret struggle of some advanced civilizations, and whether it will have a certain impact on the situation in the Milky Way.

After all, abnormal things must be demons.

Under the gaze of countless eyes, whether it is obvious or hidden, the human side has made its movements public.

Humanity publicly submitted an indictment to the Silver Alliance Court, publicly sued the scientific expedition fleet for being destroyed by the coalition of the five major civilizations, and established a special legal team for this purpose.

"Is the human race really going to play? Really sued?"

In the meeting room of the heads of the five major civilizations, the heads of state were all a little surprised.

This is really unexpected.

It is normal for civilizations to go to war, launch propaganda wars, win external support, and engage in verbal battles. Everyone does this. Some people even file lawsuits in the Silver Alliance Court, but I have never seen anyone file a lawsuit for such a small matter.

"Are you crazy? Even if they win, what? Hand over the murderer? We just hand over some death row prisoners, can they prove that they are not the murderer?

Apologize? What's the use of an apology? Can it be compared to a warship? Compensation? Fifty thousand people, at most a compensation of tens of thousands of silver coins..."

The movements of human civilization really make the heads of state who have seen a lot of storms and waves confused.

"If something is out of the ordinary, it must be a demon."

A head of state said in a deep voice: "Let's not talk about what conspiracy humans have. In short, we must not give them what they want.

If he sues, we will respond! If they want to win the case, we will make them lose! Then they will be humiliated!"

"Yes. It's just a verbal lawsuit. Which civilization doesn't have a group of legal talents! Just respond to the lawsuit!"

The heads of the five major civilizations quickly unified their opinions and sent a luxurious legal team composed of the legal elites of the five major civilizations to respond to the lawsuit.

Not long after, the Silver Alliance Court opened a trial of the matter through remote video. Because of the high attention received by this matter, the Silver Alliance Court also adopted an open trial method.

Any civilization can apply for a seat for the Silver Alliance Court. At that time, the relevant signal will be sent by the Silver Alliance Court.

The trial began, and after a series of previous procedures, the trial officially began.

The human side spoke first.

The faces of the human legal elites were full of grief.

"According to Article 332 of Section 76 of the Silver Alliance Treaty, non-military forces such as scientific research, civilian, and commercial forces enjoy war immunity in non-battlefield environments and non-combat conditions, and are not sufficient to have any impact on the war situation. No fleet or civilization has the power to attack them.

Our total of more than 50,000 people took the scientific research fleet to the neutron star for scientific research. It does not involve military affairs at all, is not in a battlefield environment, and does not meet the conditions for participating in the war.

But the coalition forces of the five civilizations brazenly attacked innocent civilians, brutally massacred more than 50,000 people, and destroyed all our scientific research facilities. Such behavior is horrible and outrageous. It blatantly violates the Silver Alliance's ban and seriously challenges the bottom line of the Silver Alliance.

The following is our evidence. "

The human lawyers showed the evidence in detail to the trial judge, the opponent, and the audience, including the scale, composition, and scientific research process of their own scientific research fleet, as well as all records of the enemy's attack and destruction.

These records have to be said to be extremely detailed. After all, the facts are there.

In the end, the human lawyers' eyes were red: "Tens of thousands of people died tragically, and tens of thousands of families were broken.

If it was on the battlefield, life and death would be left to fate, regardless of life and death. But these people, they are not soldiers, and they did not go to the battlefield!

They just went to perform an ordinary scientific research mission. They just wanted to complete their work, get a salary, and then support their families! Their wives, children, parents, and friends at home are still waiting for them to go home!

But at this moment, they were buried in the sea of ​​stars, and no bones were left!

And the murderer who caused all this was the coalition of the five major civilizations!

I want to ask you, have you ever defeated us on the battlefield? You can't do anything to us on the battlefield, so you only dare to attack our civilians! You are so bullying and afraid of the strong, are you still considered soldiers? ! "

The speech of the human lawyers was like a loud bell, awakening and shocking, and I don't know how many people were infected for a while.

At this moment, I don't know how many spectators secretly stood on the side of humans.

Anyway, it's none of my business, and expressing emotional support will not affect it.

"Dear judge, we have finished our explanation."

"Please let the lawyers of the five major civilizations speak."

"Dear judge, I want to explain one thing.

At this stage, we are in a state of war with the human civilization. The civilization territory and the civilization fleet are all battlefields!

You said that the fleet at the neutron star was just a scientific expedition fleet and had nothing to do with military affairs. So, when your fleet was dispatched, did you report to us? Did you get our permission?

If I remember correctly, no? If not, how can you prove that it was just a scientific expedition fleet?

We seriously suspect that you are secretly plotting something under the guise of a scientific expedition fleet. In this case, it is reasonable and legal for us to destroy your fleet! "

The human side was furious: "What nonsense! Any level 4 civilization can see from the composition of our fleet that this is a scientific expedition fleet, but you can't see it? Besides, which law of the Silver Alliance stipulates that we need to report to you?

On the contrary, the Silver Alliance law clearly stipulates that it is not allowed to attack non-military fleets! You openly violated the Silver Alliance regulations. Do you want to replace the Silver Alliance regulations with your own internal regulations! "

The two sides used this as a battlefield and launched a war of words.

No matter how the five major alliances' lawyers defended, the human side always stuck to one theme and stuck to the Silver Alliance regulations.

You said to report, you said we couldn't tell the difference, you said we had no obligation to tell the difference, you said this was the default behavior within the Silver Alliance - since the two sides went to war, they would do whatever they wanted, no matter whether you were a soldier or a civilian, everyone had been like this for so many years, and so on, no matter what the five major alliances said, the human side always stuck to the provisions of Article 76, Article 332 of the Silver Alliance Treaty.

The regulations are the regulations, I don't care about your unspoken rules or tacit understandings, I just ask you, are you going to violate the Silver Alliance regulations? As for other things, what do they have to do with me?

After several days of fierce debate, during which the court was adjourned for a while, the five major alliances finally found that it was not feasible to avoid the Silver Alliance terms and use unspoken rules, tacit understandings, and actual situations as excuses to explain this matter.

"Then change the strategy! Debate with the human side within the framework of the Silver Alliance legal provisions! "

The five civilizations alliance finally made up their minds.

So, the legal elites of the five civilizations found that within the legal framework, there seemed to be only one point they could use.

Article 332 of Article 76 of the Silver Alliance Treaty stipulates several situations: one, non-military forces such as scientific research, civilian, and commercial.

Two, in a non-battlefield environment and non-war conditions.

Three, not enough to cause any impact on the war situation.

Only when these three items are met at the same time can you enjoy war immunity.

Among these three items, the first and second are very obvious.

That fleet is obviously a scientific research fleet and does not have military power. The area around the neutron star is also obviously not a battlefield environment, let alone the conditions for participating in the war.

Then what is left for The only loophole we have is the third one.

Generally speaking, according to general understanding, a small-scale scientific research fleet is also obviously not enough to have any impact on the war situation. But if you look deeper into this sentence, you can still find some loopholes.

For example... We suspect that your scientific research fleet is there to research some new high-lethality weapons. Once the research is successful, it can gain an advantage on the battlefield. Does this count as an impact on the war situation?

You say no? Bring evidence. If humans submit records of research projects as evidence, then how do you prove that you did not conceal, hide, or forge research records?

After all, the scientific research fleet is yours. If you want to forge records, who can tell?

Or to be more direct, if your technology advances, it will also have an impact on the battlefield situation. This seems to cover too much, but it makes sense logically: do you dare to say that your research results will not be used on the battlefield?

Even if it is civilian technology, then, if your logistics force is strengthened, it can also affect the battlefield situation.

Sure enough, after changing the strategy, the five major civilizations immediately gained the upper hand at the trial and debate.

"Do you have evidence to prove that you are not researching weapons of mass destruction? According to the footage we have taken, you have deliberately bombarded neutron stars many times, causing neutron star quakes. Are you researching new kinetic weapons?"

"Can you guarantee that your research results will not be used on the battlefield? No? Then what is your basis for saying that it will not affect the battlefield situation?"

The legal elites of the human side were speechless and blushed.

In the audience, many representatives of civilizations sighed in their hearts.

In this incident, no matter from which aspect, the human side is the one who is right. The defense of the Five Civilization Alliance is pure sophistry.

But there is no way, the Silver Alliance law is imperfect and has loopholes.

The debate ended with the defeat of the human side.

But this trial is not over yet.

In this case, the Silver Alliance judge has the final say.

This time, every audience representative can perceive that humans occupy morality and justice, while the Five Civilization Alliance occupies reason.

A perverse reason is also a reason.

Generally speaking, in this case, the Silver Alliance judge will rule that the side that occupies morality and justice wins. After all, there are so many audiences, and social impact must be considered.

Besides, what humans ask for is not excessive, just a compensation of tens of thousands of silver coins, and some death row prisoners just add a few words of apology for the dead.

It can be regarded as full of sincerity.

As long as the human side is judged to win, this trial will be considered to be explained to the inside and outside, to the Silver Alliance, and to the interstellar society, which can be said to be convenient for both public and private.

Even from the heart, the audience also hopes that the human side will win.

But...

The voice of the Silver Alliance judge was transmitted to the ears of every participant through the translator: "Human civilization sued the five major civilization alliances for slaughtering their scientific research fleet, and the case was lost.

The reason is that the human side cannot prove that their scientific research fleet will not affect the battlefield situation.

The total cost of this trial is 170,000 silver coins, which will be borne by the losing party.

This trial is over."

The figure of the Silver Alliance judge disappeared directly, and the communication was directly interrupted. (End of this chapter)