A captain may claim but one ship, and no more. 

A captain must command a crew, for a ship without hands is adrift in the void. 

A crew must honor their captain, as a ship must honor its helm. 

 The title of captain may be fairly challenged in a duel to the death. The victor claims ship and crew. 

Three captains together may place a bounty upon any soul. 

The same three captains who placed a bounty, may withdraw it, but only by unanimous accord. 

Should all three captains who placed a bounty perish, the bounty is no more. 

A bounty, once placed, must be honored by all who sail the void. 

The marked may call for a trial by the three captains who placed the bounty upon them. 

A trial, once called, must be held and its verdict honored. 

To rise against one’s captain without fair duel is mutiny, and mutiny is a breaking of the Code. 

To break the Code is to invoke Karman Law. 

No captain nor crew shall strike a bargain with the voidspawn, for they seek only ruin. 

No ship shall fire upon another without cause, lest they invoke Karman Law. 

Plunder taken is plunder shared; a crew who does not share spoils is no crew at all. 

A ship abandoned is a ship claimed. A coward who flees their ship forfeits all rights to it. 

A duel called must be met, but a duel refused is a duel lost. 

A captain slain in fair duel surrenders their ship and command; none shall seek vengeance for a death by the Code. 

No soul may be taken as cargo; slavery is the trade of cowards and tyrants. 

No bounty may be placed in falsehood; a liar’s bounty turns upon them thrice over. 

A ship in distress must be given aid, unless they be foe or false. 

A meeting of captains is sacred; to break the peace at parley is to invoke Karman Law.