Editing Kharadron Overlords (section)

==The Code==
{{topquote|The Code is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules.|Hector Barbossa}}

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'''Artycle 1: The Rules of Governance'''

*Point 1: Leaders shall be chosen by proof of skills. No title of nobility shall be granted by the Kharadron Overlords. Titles and ranks are earned by merit.

*Point 2: No endeavour should be undertaken if the outcome results in the loss for the sky-port.

*Point 5: If backed by either the majority or full vote of the Tommraad, a Krenkha grogna (Vote of No Confidence) can be called. The entire crew (or equivalent) must vote. A majority of ‘out’ results in the election of a replacement as appropriate.

*Point 7: The title of Lord-Magnate is given to any whose profit-reaping brings them into the top ten per cent of earners within the last wind cycle. The Lords Magnate are afforded first choice of fleets and will be amongst those considered to replace any fallen, decreased or incapacitated members of the Admiral Council.

-Amendment 12: In the event that the Admirals Council cannot come to a majority consensus regarding matters of commerce (as defined in Artycles 2 and 7 of the Code), then the Lord-Magnate with the largest contribution in aether-gold shares over the last wind cycle shall provide the deciding vote.

'''Artycle 2: The Rules of Prosperity'''

*Point 1: An act that does not make profit or lead to eventual profit is not worth doing.

*Point 2: Admirals, Captains and Master Shareholders shall each receive two shares of a galkhron.

*Addendum Point 3: An Arkanaut shall recieve one share of a galkhron. Deductions from this share will be made for maintenance of skyvessels, aether-armour and aethermatic equipment, plus supply of borg and gorog.

*Point 3, Footnote 27, Paragraph C: (rules for dividing homogenous plunder by weight)

*Point 26: If in the pursuit of duty, a captain encounters a threat that might impact the financial or physical well-being of their shareholders, they are expected to respond with all reasonable force. Any external entity that threatens the accumulation of profit should be subjected to immediate destruction.

-Footnote 21: Make fair use of all the gold in the sky.

-Sub-clause 12: During an active state of war immediate sanctions shall be imposed upon the enemies of the Kharadron Overlords, the severity of which is to be decided by the Geldraad. As long as the enemy draws breath, they shall be subject to a total trade embargo, and any officer of the fleet who attenpts to open negotiations with such a party shall be considered guilty of the highest treason and punished accordingly.

-Amendment 3, Footnote 16: Representatives of the [[Ossiarch Bonereapers|uzkulrik]] clearly cannot be considered subject to be second stipulation of Sub-clause 12 of Artycle 2, as they do not breathe.

'''Artycle 3: The Articles of Justice'''

*Point 1: The profit margin must be evaluated before the deployment of sky-fleet assets.

*Point 2: Upkeep of a skyvessel is essential, even over Kharadron lives.

*Point 5: All hazkal brewed within a sky-port is subject to regular inspection, to be carried out by the Board of Brewmasters. Any guild-company found guilty of thinning their product with bilgewater, using inferior hops or failing to allow appropriate fermentation time shall be fined to the full extent that the Code permits, and its owners de-bearded and branded with the mark of the guzungrim.

-Amendment 21. Footnote 6: Brewing stations located within the high airs cannot be subject to point five of this artycle. In addition, the sale of inferior hazkal within foreign ports shall be permitted, because the umgi are content to drink any old swill.

'''Artycle 4'''

*Point 1: Every ship-hand is to obey orders without question.

*Point 5: In times of war, allies must be aided unless to do so would prove pointless. Waste no duardin blood on unguz throlt.

'''Artycle 5 ''': 

* Point 6: All boarding actions must be authorised by the captain (or the highest ranking officer).

'''Artycle 6: The Rules of The High Airs'''

*Point 2: On the high airs a vessel from any sky-port may seize airships deemed to be a piratecraft of taken by piracy and arrest the persons and confiscate all property on board. The Admirals Court of the sky-port which carried out the seizure may decide upon the penalties to be imposed. If the suspect vessel refused to adhere to the rule of law and surrender its cargo for inspection, the use of lethal force is acceptable in order to encourage compliance.

-Amendment 10, Footnote 13: An Arkanaut Captain or Admiral has the right to recover salvage from the wreckage of any vessel destroyed upon the aether-tides of the Garaktormun. This shall not be considered an act of piracy as defined by Artycle 6, and all material recovered shall be considered the property of the recovering crew.

'''Artycle 7: The Rights of Ownership''' 

*Point 1: In order to make a valid claim upon minerals or salvage one must first ensure that the object of said claim is not currently under claim. Newly discovered aether-gold deposits must be marked with angazuben before they can be considered the property of any sky-port. Once a claim is staked, it is illegal to harvest at the site without the owner's permission.

*Point 4
Subsection B: In the case of shipwrecks, a ship, its cargo, or other property can be claimed. The recoverer of another's ship or cargo after peril or loss upon the high airs is entitled to a reward commensurate with the value of the property so saved.

*Point 5: Any untended barrel of ale or strong liquor may be considered salvage.

-Sub-Amendment 327B: In Order to prevent the integrity of the Code against further frivolous and mendacious alterations that undermine the grand tradition of this constitution, no further sub-amendment regarding Artycle 7 shall be brought before the Geldraad.

'''Artycle 8: The Tenets of Defense'''

*Point 12: Guild representatives must be received and accorded all honours due their rank. Their skills are at the fleet's disposal.

-Section 3: Each wind cycle a Musterpress shall be held upon the Brynruf. This shall consist of six days of physical competition and rigorous examinations, the nature of which shall be decided individually by each sky-port's Admirals Council. Upon the culmination of the Musterpress, Admirals and Captains of the fleets shall have seven days in which to offer contracts of service to the contestants.

-Sub-Amendment 3F: In times of crisis - as decreed by the Geldraad - representatives from the Grundstok Corporation shall have first option upon all candidates chosen by Musterpress, and shall be allowed to buy out the contract of any Arkanaut at seven twelfths of its set price.

'''Artycle 9, Point 7''': Use of excessive firepower is permissible as long as the end justifies the means.

-Amendment 3: If a duardin obtains a properly signed and approved grudge-clause, they are given the Rune of Mark and considered exempt from any other statues of the Code. Any plunder seized during an act of vengeance must be taken to the Admiralty’s Court so that galkhron can be performed.

-Amendment 11: The Kharadron Code cannot be altered.

'''Artycle 14''':

-Amendment 73: Declarations of Affection may be issued without prior approval of the Admirality Board when expressed within periods of not less than 1 (one) hour before commencement of business activities.

'''Artycle 37:4''':  the appropriate response to mindless aggression is heavy firepower, coupled with a retrograde advance.

'''Artycle 45, Footnote 21, Amendment 8''' All sales are final<ref>https://www.warhammer-community.com/hammerhal-herald/#hammerhal-16</ref>.

'''Artycle 104'''

*Point 3, ‘Right of Greater Claim’: Any interception of souls (or "soul-''like'' substances", following the ruling of M. Thyrx v. [[Total War: WARHAMMER#Original Characters|Sarthorael]]) would be governed by the Passages of Plunder, Salvage, Flotsam and/or Jetsam.

-Sub-Amendment 1, ‘Ownership Rights of Deceased Property’: Souls (or "soul-''like'' substances") held in transit between the Realms of Death and Otherwise are not classified as ‘deceased’ until reception of goods.

-Footnote FB: (defines "reception of goods" discussed above)

'''Artycle 486, Section 3, Amendment 14, Sub-amendment 12a, Footnote 64, vis''': Kharadron Code Artycles invented by Warhammer Community writers in order to promote model releases by way of meta-textual reference humour.

'''Artycle 747''' ''Biannual Tempest's Eye Sky-Race Derby rules''<ref>https://www.warhammer-community.com/hammerhal-herald/#hammerhal-21</ref>.

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