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The Imperial Penal Code, also known as the Imperial Legal Code and simply Imperial Code, was a body of laws issued by the Galactic Empire. It represented the branch of Imperial legal statutes concerned with criminal law. It consisted of seventeen volumes.

Documented extracts include:

• Imperial Legal Code, Section Fourteen, Subsection Nine, Part C-dash-one, and Section 2127, which laid out the requirements for legal assassinations.^[1]

One particular model of the groomer (an advanced model of the older XP-21) contained all seventeen volumes of the code.

Behind the scenes[]

It is unclear whether the Imperial Military Code was included within this body of law as a subsection (eg, Section 14), or whether it was an independent statute, with the Imperial Legal Code representing the wider law, not limited to the military, but applicable to the galactic community of Imperial citizens.

Appearances[]

• Death Star
• The Star Wars Holiday Special (First mentioned)
• Dark Nest III: The Swarm War

Sources[]

• Imperial Sourcebook
• Shadows of the Empire Planets Guide
• Pirates & Privateers (as Imperial Code, Imperial Legal Code)
• "Imperial Garrisons" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 12 (as Imperial Code)
• Stock Ships (as Imperial Code)
• Platt's Smugglers Guide
• The Far Orbit Project (as Imperial Code)
• The Essential Guide to Droids
• The Official Star Wars Fact File 3 (SEN 1-2: Imperial Mark IV Sentry Droid)
• The New Essential Guide to Droids

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