Enemy of the Empire

"The pirate Kilwyo Kesh, having committed numerous and egregious offenses against the people and systems of the Golden Empire, is declared by Her Imperial Majesty Queen Rin the Invincible to be an Enemy of the Empire. Any citizen who can do him harm or bring him to justice is obliged to do so."

- Declaration of Kilwyo Kesh as an Enemy of the Empire

Enemy of the Empire was a designation in the Golden Empire, applied to the very worst of criminals who had either resisted capture or escaped confinement. Consuls had the authority to declare a sentient an Enemy of the Empire if he had been convicted of a an automatic capital crime but had escaped before execution; the Sovereign or a Royal Executor could also pass the status on "notorious criminals" who had not been tried because they had not been caught.

Being declared an Enemy of the Empire stripped a being of all protection from other sentients; it allowed any citizen of the Empire to kill the Enemy without penalty (and usually even with reward).

By 140 ABY, while a few sentients escaped death row, were declared enemies by Consuls, and were killed or recaptured and executed, only two beings had been declared Enemies of the Empire by Rin Sakaros herself: A civilian named Renamo Kemset identified Kesh in a bar, snuck up behind him, and stabbed him in the back. Zhin-Vel was killed in a fight with two Centurions of the Order of Keltrayu.
 * Kilwyo Kesh, pirate
 * Zhin-Vel, slaver and warlord