The tribunal gathered in the assembly hall’s judgment section. Wuchen sat under guard in plain clothes, with counsel beside him. The broken brush and command ledger remained sealed apart from his reach.
The chair announced the interim judgment. Wuchen was removed from the office of Heaven Registrar and stripped of access to command seals, provincial nodes, and Registry funds. He would remain alive in guarded confinement while the inquiry continued into forced contracts, suppressed repairs, and orders issued during the storm.
The ruling acknowledged that the old network had protected towns and that Wuchen’s administration had directed real defense work. It also found that he had ordered stations to reconnect without current safety readings and used contracts that included descendants who had never signed. The tribunal recorded the contribution and the unlawful control as separate findings.
Wei’s falsified forms and Gu’s design role went to separate reviews. Their testimony and later repair work remained in the file, but neither man received an automatic pardon.
Ning asked that the casualty docket stay open for another month so families could correct shelter counts or report someone missing. Bai requested that seized Registry assets fund replacement carts and medicine, with each purchase made public. The chair accepted both requests as provisional conditions of restitution. She also read the custody terms: Wuchen could request counsel and medical care, but he would have no access to seals or records.
