1. Minimal Office Holders
    The Game of Imperial Nomic shall always include at least two not necessarily distinct players who are office-holders: The Imperial Emperor / Empress (TIE) and The Humble Scribe (THS).

    2. What TIE Says Goes
    The decision of TIE is final and no correspondence will be entered into. The initial holder of the position of TIE is Eric "Rico" Plumb, who is also THS.

    3. How to Play
    A Proposal is submitted by sending it by electronic mail or the World Wide Web to THS, who must publish via the World Wide Web the current ruleset, proposal list, and current scores of all players.  Any player may join at any time by e-mailing TIE and expressing a desire to join.  Each player must represent a distinct person in RL (real life).

    4. Rights and Responsibilities of TIE
    TIE will judge each proposal submitted and accept, reject or ignore it. To ignore a proposal, the condition by which it is ignored must be explicit elsewhere in the ruleset. TIE may, at any time, modify or remove any existing rule or enact new rules, by the issuing of a Proclamation. In addition, e may, at any time, issue a Directive calling for proposals in a certain area.  If TIE so chooses, e may reward players for following such a Directive.

    5. Rights of THS
    The Humble Scribe may rewrite a proposal to clarify its meaning, as long as the rewriting does not alter the meaning.

    6. Automatic Queueing System
    If a player has submitted two undecided proposals for a Judgment Period and then submits a new proposal, the new proposal will replace the oldest of that player's undecided proposals.

    7. This Is How You Do It
     Any player may, at any time, submit a Point of Order to raise any issue relevant to the game.

    8. Application of Rules
    Each submission will be numbered and a new rule will apply to all submissions numbered greater than or equal to its own proposal unless it specifies otherwise.

    9. Resolution of Conflicts
    When several rules apply at the same time and have different consequences then the rule with the lowest number is applied first. Other rules may then be applied so long as they do not conflict directly with a rule that has already been applied.

10. Points Etc.

• A player gains 3 points each time one of eir proposals is accepted.  A player loses 1 point every time one of eir proposals is rejected.  A player loses 2 points every time one of eir proposals is ignored.
• If a player's score is a perfect square, perfect cube, or a prime integer, then, on their pointing this fact out, they shall gain 10 points and 2 Force Points.
• A player gets 50 credit chits when they are first made a player.  All existing players retroactively get 50 credit chits. A player gets 10 credit chits whenever e has a proposal accepted.
• A player gains a gold star each time eir score is equal to or greater than (150 + 50*g) where g is the number of gold stars e currently owns, and currently is both a TIE Bomber and a TIE Interceptor.  When a player gains a gold star in this manner, eir score is set back to 0 points and e loses the TIE Bomber and TIE Interceptor titles.  If at any time a player has 3 gold stars that player may trade them in for a Deathstar.  Doing this ends the game with the player owning the Deathstar being declared TEW (The Exalted Winner).  Ranking is as follows: First place goes to TEW.  All other players are ranked by the following criteria in order, with ties being broken by criteria further down the list: Number of gold stars, number of points, light weapon strength, alphabetically by name.
• A player may only become a TIE Interceptor by catching a pass thrown by a member of the other team in a game of StarBall.
• Any player who successfully causes damage to a planet other than their own earns the title TIE bomber.

• Any player thwapped loses 1 point.  If a player has been thwapped 10 times, e may declare emself a Masochist.  Masochists do not lose points as a result of being thwapped, they kinda like it.  The Masochist with the most thwaps may declare emself the Master Masochist.  This Master Masochist must include a strange masochistic saying to go with any proposal. If a saying makes TIE chuckle, e may award the player up to 10 points.
• TIE may thwap a player whose proposal has just been rejected.
• If a prison break is successful, the Leader of the Rebellion may thwap the Grand Moff.
• If there are no Rebel Prisoners, the Leader of the Rebellion may thwap any TIE Fighter once per 10 game actions.
• A player who does not refer the the game by its proper name ("De Imperial Nomic" or "Imperial Nomic #29") may be thwapped by TIE at his lesiure.
• If there are no Prisoners, Vader may thwap any TIE Minion once per block of 10 game actions.  If nobody is Vader, the Grand Moff has this privelege.
• If there are any Prisoners, the Grand Moff can thwap a Prisoner once a day, but must refer to em as "Rebel scum."
• Whenever a player becomes Grand Moff, the person who was last Grand Moff automatically thwaps the new Grand Moff.  If the new Grand Moff is a Masochist, instead of getting thwapped, he gives 50 credits to the previous Grand Moff.
• Whenever a TIE Minion has 3 proposals in a row accepted since eir last thwap from the Wookie Monster (P38), there is a 50% chance that the Wookie Monster will become angry at the Minion for giving the Empire more control over the game and thwap em unless the Wookie Monster is Depressed.  However, if the Minion is a masochist, the Wookie Monster will instead give em a wedgie.  A player thwapped by the Wookie Monster gains an extra 5 credits from the guy with the white shirt and black vest who follows the Wookie around; a player wedgied by the WM gains 10 credits.
• A player in Cell Block 1138 is thwapped twice a day by the prison guards.  A player in Cell Block 1138 may not submit proposals, but may submit points of order, provided they are prefaced with the phrase "Boring Point of Order Anyway".
• If a player gains the title of Obi-Wan or Vader through winning a duel, they automatically thwap the loser.

• Any text between a left square bracket and the next right bracket thereafter [like this] is a comment and has no game effect.  Any text between a pair of left curly braces and the next pair of right curly braces [like the text that used to be here] is applied once only and then deleted from the Ruleset.
• Any untitled proposal will be ignored.
• Any player making a particularly poignant, amusing, or otherwise appropriate reference to Star Wars shall be rewarded by TIE with from 0 to 5 points at TIE's discretion and judgement on how funny, appropriate, etc the reference was.
• If at any time a player can cause a game action to spell out a proper english phrase then that phrase shall occur pending the approval of TIE.  The action of this phrase is such that it can supercede other rules.

• The TIE Fighter with the most credits is Leader of the Rebellion, unless e is Obi-Wan, in which case the Fighter with the second most credits is the LotR.  If there is a tie, there is no LotR.  The LotR is responsible for all prison breaks.  E may spend 30 credits to bribe Imperial officials in order to change one Prisoner back into a TIE fighter, ignoring any Rules which suggest e couldn't do that.
• The TIE Fighter with the strongest Light Foil is Obi-Wan.  If Obi-Wan loses a duel against Vader, the whole Rebellion becomes depressed. The Wookie Monster becomes too busy mourning to thwap anyone until Obi-Wan manages to win a duel against Vader.
• As soon as there are 5 more TIE fighters than players who are not TIE fighters, TIE is overthrown and proposals are now voted on, instead of being ruled on by TIE.
• While there are 5 or more TIE Minions, the Outlaws may declare a Raid.  Each Outlaw has three days to send in the name of a TIE Minion to Raid.  If two or more Outlaws submit the same name, that Minion becomes a Rebel Prisoner.  A Rebel Prisoner cannot become a TIE Minion or TIE Fighter.  If all of the Outlaws submit the same name, that Minion is brainwashed into becoming a NWO member.
• Every game action whose number is divisible by 10, unless Vader is Depressed, the Empire's Automatic Vise-Like Grip (AVLG) will pick a random TIE Fighter to choke.  This causes the Fighter to lose 10 points, 10 credits, and counts as a thwap.  This Rebel may submit an extra proposal in the next Judgment Period if e so chooses due to the clarity of thought inspired by being so near death.

• The TIE Minion with the most points is Grand Moff, unless e is Vader, in which case the Minion with the second most points is Grand Moff (most recent Moff in case of a tie.)  E may spend 30 credits to bribe Rebels to turn a Rebel prisioner back into a TIE minion, ignoring any rule which suggest the player couldn't switch allegiances so soon.
• The TIE Minion with the strongest Light Epee is Vader.  If Vader loses a duel against Obi-Wan, he becomes Depressed.  Until e manages to win a duel against Obi-Wan, nobody is caught in the AVLG, since Vader can't concentrate enough to do it to anyone.
• When there are five TIE minions, all TIE fighters are no longer TIE fighters, lose 10 points, and become Outlaws.   Any player who declares eimself a TIE fighter while there are five TIE minions loses 20 points, and becomes a Prisoner instead of a TIE fighter.

•  The NWO member with the most points is the leader and must have the nickname "Hollywood Hulk."
• NWO members must always have a nickname and a signature move; those without may be thwapped once a day by Hollywood Hulk until they do.
• NWO members may not leave voluntarily; they must be removed by TIE.
• When a NWO member has a proposal passed, e is encouraged to perform eir signature move on a non-NWO player.

• All players automatically join the PSL (Professional Starball League) when they join their first game of Starball.  There is currently no way to leave the PSL.
• All players who are members of the PSL get a 5 Credit bonus for every goal their team scores.  The person who actually scored the goal gets an additional 5 credit bonus.

• Vader and Obi-Wan duel once each Sunday.
• Any TIE Fighter or TIE Minion can spend 100 points to corrupt a player from the opposite side, causing em to switch allegiances.  This loss of points cannot send a player into negative points.

• Any player may hire a Corellian smuggler for n credits, where n can be any number less than or equal to the number of credits the player owns.  THS will then roll a d10.  On a 9 or 10, the Smuggler runs off with the money, which disappears from the game.  On a 1 or 2, the Smuggler is intercepted by the opposition and the cargo is confiscated.  On any other number, the player who hired the smuggler receives 1.5*n credits, rounded down.  If the cargo is confiscated, the two leaders other than the leader of the faction who hired the smuggler each get an equal share of the n credits.
• A player may purchase Electric Cheekbones for 25 Credits.  The ownership of Electric Cheekbones shall be kept secret.  Whenever any player (excluding TIE) thwaps a player who has Electric Cheekbones, the thwapper's hand shall glow blue, and fiery lightning shall escape therefrom.  This lightning will cause the thwapper to lose 5 points, and it is considered good form for em to utter a scream of pain at the next opportunity.  When a player is forced by the rules to thwap another player, and the second player has electric cheekbones, the first player is considered to have "Learned Their Lesion", and will never again be forced by the rules to thwap that player.  If, later, the first player voluntarily thwaps the second player, and the second player no longer has electric cheekbones, then the first player is once again free to thwap the second when forced to by the rules.
• Each player may possess at most one ship at any one time.  Ships have a Wow-Factor which ranges from 1 to 10.  Buying a ship costs 100 * the square of the Wow-Factor in Credits, and includes the costs for all on-ship weaponry.  Ships may be sold for 50% of their purchase price.  When a player purchases a ship, e must give it a name which has not been used by any previous ship in the game.
• Players may get in contact with Point Forgers.  A player may spend a number of credits (N) in an attempt to have the forgers create a number of points (P) which look and act exactly like the real things.  However, the Forgers are not always successful, and if not paid well enough will automatically botch their job.  So the chance of such a move succeeding is 0 if N is 0, and otherwise is the greater of 0 and (N-P)/N.  If such a move fails, then Imperial spies will note the forgery, and the player will be interned in Cell Block 1138.

Current possible uses of FPs, and their costs, are:

• Move an extra square in Starball (1 FP)
• Create a Force Field in Starball (1 FP)
• JMT a Starball action (50% chance of succeeding due to mind scramblers owned by each team) (2 FP)
• A TIE Minion may attempt to create a Light Epee (20 points + 20 credits + n FP, where min(5*n, 100) is your percentage chance of succeeding and the strength is 10*log(n))
• A TIE Fighter may attempt to create a Light Foil (10 points + 10 credits + n FP, where min(2.5*n, 100) is your percentage chance of succeeding and the strength is 10*log(n))
• Use a Jedi Mind Trick to force (ha!) another player to take a certain action (4 FP) A player who is JMTed once during a Judgment Period may not be Tricked again; if two or more players attempt to JMT the same player, one will succed randomly.  Any player who has a JMT fail for any reason cannot try another for three JPs.
• A player may specify that e is Concentrating (0 FP) in a particular JP, in which case a JMT has only a 25% chance of working on em, but may only submit 1 proposal in that JP.  At the end of the JP, the Concentration has a 40% chance of returning a Force Point.
• Any player with a light weapon may challenge any other player with a light weapon to a Duel (each player spends 1 FP for all that jumping around) The winner of the duel gains 5 points and 20 credits.  The loser of the duel loses an equal sum.  If the loser has less than 20 credits, the winner only gains as many credits as the loser has. The winner of a duel is the winner of 3 out of 5 contests.  A contest is decided by comparing rand(WeaponStrength of player a + Force points of player a) against rand(WeaponStrength of player b + Force points of player b).  The victor is the player with the higher value.  If a TIE Minion challenges Vader or a TIE Fighter challenges Obi-Wan, the winner of the duel gains the title appropriate to eir allegiance in addition to any other rewards, and the loser is thwapped in addition to any other penalties if and only if the title was transferred as a result of this duel.
• Telekinesis:
• Starball flag: 1 square in any direction, provided destination square is unoccupied and this is the only TK aimed at the flag this JP.  2 FP

• Move 1 square horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.  This move may not take the player off of the Starball field.  If two players attempt to move into the same square simultaneously, neither player moves and both lose eir next turn unless one has the Starball, in which case the other is considered to be attempting a tackle.  (P75)
• Drop the Starball in the current square, in which case the Starball is stationary.
• Pick up a stationary Starball, which comes into their possession.  A player may not pick up a ball currently in the possession of any other player.
• Throw the Starball horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.  The Starball moves in that direction until it:
• moves into the same square as another player.  That player has caught the Starball, and is now in possession of it.
• Attempts to move off of the field.  The ball then stays in the square it is currently in.
• When a player moves into the same square as another player, e may attempt to tackle the other player by specifying so.  Results are determined on a d10 roll, as follows:
• 1-3: Perfect Tackle.  If the tacklee had the ball, the tackler now does.  The tacklee misses eir next move out of shock.
• 4-7: Imperfect Tackle.  If the tacklee had the ball, it moves in a continuation of the tackler's move.  Both players remain in the same square.
• 8-10: Botch.  The tackler falls down and misses their next Starball move. The tacklee remains in possession of the Starball if e had it. (P56)
• A player may Charge in a direction, moving two spaces in that direction and losing eir next move.  If e moves into the same square as another player, that player also loses eir next move.  If either player had the Starball, it bounces 1 square in a random direction.  A Charging player who hits a member of the other team who doesn't have the Starball will be penalized by being sent back to eir team's starting square. (P58) A player who is Concentrating may not Charge.  (P92)
• Take a Defensive Plant stance.  A player in a Defensive Plant stays in the same square and may not submit Starball moves until either a Goal or Score is scored, in which case e may once again submit Starball moves, or an opposing player enters an adjacent square, in which case e immediately Charges that player, and may thereafter once again submit Starball moves.
• Spend 1 Force Point to create a Force Field for eir team in the square they currently occupy.
• Spend 2 Force Points to telekene a Flag one square in any direction, provided destination square is unoccupied, or 1 Force Point to TK an unpossessed Starball in any direction.  The Starball will continue moving in that direction until a player catches it or it would exit the field.