Mmm?

Transfer of power has historically been a somewhat delicate subject, in these parts.

...it's going to take a while for people to feel comfortable assuming they can be critical of the government without getting killed, isn't it. He can't immediately think of a way to speed that up.

May be one of those things that will take an Elf-while for the population to shake off.

"I could plant people who say horribly mean things about me and conspicuously fail to suffer any consequences?"

...He's an Emperor, he can do whatever he wants.

"What I want is for people to have a good sense of what I will do, and I don't know whether it'd be helpful towards that end or not."

If he wants people to say mean things about him, that might encourage the behavior.

"I want people to be aware that if they do, nothing will happen to them. Back home they usually know that and still don't say mean things because they mostly approve of how the empire's being run. That'd be a nice way for things to work out but I'm not too set on it."

They're kind of skeptical. But there's no harm in trying, probably.

All right, this empire will have some artificial dissidents! Some of them will object to tax policy and some of them will object to the end of the war and some of them will just dislike him personally and complain about his ears being suspiciously pointy.

Nothing will happen to them.

Pointy-ears gets the most traction in popular sentiment. All that residual anti-alien bias and so forth. Some people he did not plant being voicing similar opinions. The others are mostly ignored.

People he didn't plant also don't have anything happen to them. That's about all he's interested in doing; he's not going to plant dissidents angry about the end of slavery. 

He, uh, may want to make some sort of a public statement about whether he is actually an alien. Some of these rallies are getting restive.

He's a Quendi; this is his home city (he shows Ambaróna, not Tirion) and some other places in his home galaxy. People can have very restive rallies if they like; if they damage property or assault others then there'll be a problem. 

What, he's just going to admit it? This faction says he has no business being Emperor if he's not human. (It is a small faction, but very loud.)

Do they say that. He thinks he'll ignore them.

They think they'll try to blow up some his hospitals and schools to get his attention.

Black Codex catches that. He has them arrested. Is there, like, a standard justice system, how objectionable is it -

The previous administration would have just disappeared dissenters like these. But there is a judicial system he can hand them to. They'll probably get a life sentence in the mines somewhere.

...how common is that?

Being sentenced to go off and work somewhere unpleasant? That's pretty much the standard for serious crimes. The exact term of indenture can vary, of course.

...bombing schools and hospitals is sufficiently horrible that maybe with humans who'd do that sort of thing there isn't a better way to do sentencing. It's probably better than locking them in cages. Sure, public trial.

The trial goes as predicted. The ringleader gets a death sentence.

The Emperor'd like to talk to him, is that possible?