Palace Decree: Yngvarr Viduggla Court Martial

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Administrating the final Report is Titular Prince Justinian Kade, as requested by the Emperor and validated by the Grand Ekhein. The following results are notified to the Marshal's Cabinet and beyond.

Prince Justinian Kade and by proxy the Emperor must firstly strongly condemn citizen protests against any government official regardless of their legal circumstances. Protesting without government consent and inciting violence or discontent towards government official is treason. The Empire has a legal pathway for protest from citizens to address incompetence, criminality, and treason, through bureaucratic form 47-B pursuant misuse of power and other such legal situations. The State Metropolitan has been informed to beat down with all necessary force any further public protests not in line with the penal codes of the Empire and not sanctioned by the Crown. The Emperor wishes for malcontent to be communicated calmly and orderly, not in a recalcitrant manner befitting an infant.

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Regarding the Court Martial of Graf Yngvarr Viduggla, the Prince finds the following on the Points:

• Treason
  • Betraying the Emperor: Denied, in line with low support. The exact legality of the information post announcement is dubious at best and so no real cause can be tied to sustain this point. That being said, the Count Yngvarr Viduggla did show an almost lackadaisical attitude to the words of His Imperial Holiness, which is concerning.
• Incompetence
  • Antagonizing fellow marshals: Sustained, despite low support. While the reasoning itself for the argument was flawed, the Marshal admitted to feeling compassion for the Hvitskaggers. The so-called nation of Hvitskag has been attacking Regalian states and been at war with the Empire at large for nearly 30 years, with thousands if not tens of thousands of casualties over that timespan, both Velheim and non-Velheim. To show compassion for a people so savage and brutal, and so hostile to the Empire, shows frightening priorities in the Marshal.
  • Undermining public perception of the military: Sustained with broad support. Spreading panic about casualties should be highly discouraged for bereaved families in Regalia. Regalian families do not have a quick communication line between armies and the home front due to expensive courier fees. Any reference to a massacre results in hundreds of scared families mobbing the bureaucracy with requests for casualty confirmation.
  • Failing to pursue military campaigns: Denied, in line with low support. It should however be noted that while expansion is not an express duty, the Marshal uses extremely flawed logic to do nothing.
  • Attempting to court martial invididuals: Sustained, despite low support. Public information showing the exclusive authority of the War Minister to Court Martial has been available since last year. Exclusive rights on the bill of rights per minister are not shared as indicated, and one does not walk and exclaim to commute prisoner sentences because it is an exclusive right of the Civics Ministry. If this is understood regarding the Civics Ministry, then it should be understood regarding the War Minister also.
    
  • Public firing subordinate without evidence, then re-hiring: Sustained, despite non-existent support. The defense attempted to use the non-sensical "clone argument", a matter now infamous in the scholar's court as ignorant assumptions on factuality that is unsupportable. More importantly, the Black Hand has identified the target individual as friendly with the criminal Haqet who is notable in responsibility of thousands of Regalian deaths. One does not simply break bread with the ally, or friend, of a mass-murderer, and bait them into believing there is a job availability.
  • Skewed judgement in pursuing military operations: Sustained, despite low support. House Bancroft secured information that the Marshal is not privy to. This shows a basic lack of self-informing on ongoing events.
  • Deceiving and mistreating subordinate: Sustained, in line with high support. The Count has absolutely no defense at all. His response was deflective.

With all matters held in the balance, the Court must find the Count NOT Criminally liable, NOT Treasoning in conduct, BUT incompetent in leadership. The report, and subsequent writings of the Count's personal defense statements showcase a severe lack of priority awareness, personal glory-seeking in government office, and loyalties frames outside of the Empire.

The Emperor has verified this conclusion, and decreed that Yngvarr Viduggla shall be dishonorably dismissed from the Marshal position. As however the Mandate of Northern Defense is still valid, and as the Crown wishes to correct an earlier misjudgment in the will of the individual, the Emperor decrees to appoint Duke Ardige Viduggla to resume the position from which Count Yngvarr Viduggla has been vacated to prevent a break in command. Yngvarr Viduggla is not banned from acting as a General, but is henceforth barred from a position of Marshal leadership until his Imperial Holiness should deign to revert such a decision.

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On a more personal note. I, Titular Prince Justinian, am concerned about the sudden turn in the direction of disloyalty of the Velheim people once more. With the sudden and more recent up-tick in Empire-unfriendly politics and policies from the Velheim Dukes, added onto this Court Martial which exposed that the priorities of the Velheim nobles do not fall in line with the base-line expansionist and benedict ideals of the Empire. That if the situation was any different, and if they would, the Velheim would immediately leave the Empire, or so at least the impression created by their leaders. A matter of Velheim preservation by preventing them from being annexed into the Empire supposes that the Velheim subjects of the Emperor are worse off than the Velheim subjects outside of the Empire. This inherent secessionist attitude is likely to dictate the coming weeks of court relations. A cycle of rebellion, peace, compromise, rinse and repeat only for a backsliding, indignance and resistance. This repeating cycle of us coming back to this point has to end at some point. And it should be interesting, or perhaps concerning, to see what the movements around court in the coming weeks will be to effectuate a more permanent solution to the endless tug between loyalty and isolationism. A matter of public dialogue perhaps. Or for the Velheim to define what loyalty actually means or whether it is merely situational.

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[bwmwags3]

"Fine work," The celate says as the charges against the Viduggla plumet on the scale. Heavier than the feather upon Almar's scales, "Almar has ruled this these charges valid. Thus, the Viduggla deserves this in full and Ezekiel has much explaining to be done. Seems tbe Blackhand has uncovered what the people could not, as per usual. Blessed be their work in the shadows to preserve the light!"

"may the seditionists please realized the ineffectuality of flashy statments when actual ministries exist for such complaints to be lodged to. If you need a arbiter just asks the civics for Ness' sake," He handed the results to his daughter with a smile, "What do you make of this?" @UmberFright