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What You Are In The Dark: Teir (honor, in the Eldraeic sense) and the Code of Alphas are very, very clear on this point. Honor is not face or reputation; they are not honor. They are nice rewards for it, but you should throw them away unquestioningly if the necessity
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Sacred Hospitality: Absolutely. And even more so once spacer culture arose, because if hospitality was sacred when it was merely cold and hunger that would kill you, it’s even more so when you consider the very large number of ways in which space can kill you, given half a
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Obstructive Code of Conduct: The Imperials would certainly argue that the Fundamental Contract, with its insistence on protecting people’s life, liberty, property, and contracts would be one of these. (Of course, some non-Imperials would point out that, given the very large number of societies in the Galaxy that aren’