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The Valar announce that they've done as much as they can in Singularity (they can't bring back peoples' babies in that critical period either, but they can get them earlier versions) and are setting up portals between there and Sanity as soon as they are confident they've cleaned up the plague. A bunch of Elf architects have this wild idea for a fivedimensional city where alternating intersections are interdimensional portals between various Valinors and they get eagerly to setting it up.
dismissal
wealth-of-nations
I did in fact mean to get her in trouble, it was irresponsible to claim it'd been disproven off the evidence you had.
Jake's trial takes a long time to wind through the courts; a war crimes approach doesn't suffice, but they end up constructing a similar legal approach to evaluating crimes committed in the pursuit of the destruction of unjust social institutions like slavery, forced migration, factory farming, concentration camps, and so on. The burden is on the defense to demonstrate that there was an ongoing atrocity, the atrocity was permitted under local law and the actor had no meaningful expectation of successful legal recourse, the actor selected targets for their value in ending the atrocity and took reasonable measures to reduce collateral damage, and the actor is able to testify that given nonviolent avenues of pursuing an end to the atrocity they would in the future take them.
Jake's lawyer delightedly demonstrates each point, at some length. He is acquitted; one Elf animal rights group gives him a medal.
Then the Elves'll offer him one, no binding at all, so he can go back to Fairyland without having to deal with them.
They can communicate to the GCP that he was acquitted, here's the trial transcript and the three court decisions necessary for his lawyer to even have the opportunity to present this defense.
alicornucopia
...well, human courts do not accept this defense and it was humans he tortured to death and they regret giving his name to the Elves.
A thing about justice systems, writes Ingwë, is that sometimes they do not deliver the result you personally find most emotionally satisfying. This is not a bug, it is a feature.
alicornucopia
The GCP is not seeking emotional satisfaction, and your people's persistent misunderstanding of our priorities is both condescending and a demonstration of the depth of the problem.
alicornucopia
You don't have jurisdiction. You can't take criminals who harmed human beings and declare them innocent. If you don't care if demons hole your planets that's one thing but having determined you're incompetent to look out for the interests of human victims we find you unsuitable to try their attackers.
We will keep that in mind should any situation arise in which your opinion of our suitability is relevant.