Editing Selphids (section)

=== Laws ===
The greatest law of Selphids is the [[Minacien Wall]]. It is an agreement not to perform any action or deed that would incur the wrath of other species.<ref name=":1" />

It dictates that no body they snatch is allowed to be alive. Breaking that law is punishable by death or exile, and the only escape is to give up one's individuality to join a Mind.<ref name=":0" /> The other races remember the oppression under Selphid rule and the Selphids remember being despised and hunted after their regime was overthrown. For that reason, Selphids police themselves and punishes anyone trying to inhabit a living body.

Still, some Selphids are willing to make exceptions to that rule, mostly for reasons of self-preservation:
* [[Okasha]] was allowed to remain inside [[Geneva Scala]]'s body with Geneva's permission, as Geneva would otherwise be quadriplegic. Okasha was later replaced by [[Idis]], with permission from higher-ranking Selphids who are hoping that Geneva might save their race from the ''Wasting'' disease
*[[Jelaqua Ivirith|Jelaqua]] temporarily hid in [[Moore]]'s body after the corpse she jockeyed was too badly mutilated to support her. She left Moore quickly for a new body, and pledged all witnesses to silence about the affair. Her ride had been in consent.
Other violations of the Minacien Wall include modifying memories and thoughts with telepathy, reviving dead bodies to use as living vessels, cloning people to be servants, copying and creating artificial consciousnesses, and creating superminds like in the days of the Empire.<ref name=":2" /> Transplanting Galas-muscles into dead bodies also nearly violates it as well.<ref name=":1" />