Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information: (a) Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the planetary defense or the defense of the Galactic Empire, with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the same planetary government or to the Galactic Empire, or to the advantage of any foreign power, tribe, or other planet, goes upon, enters, flies over, or otherwise obtains information concerning any vessel, spaceship, work of defense, navy yard, naval station, fueling station, fort, battery, torpedo station, dockyard, canal, railroad, arsenal, camp, factory, mine, hologram, broadcast, wireless, or signal station, building, office, research laboratory or station or other place connected with the planetary defense or the defense of the Galactic Empire, which will be referred to as the galactic defense, owned or constructed, or in progress of construction by a planetary government or the Galactic Empire, under the control of a planetary government or the Galactic Empire, or of any of its officers, departments, or agencies, or within the exclusive jurisdiction of a planetary government or the Galactic Empire, or any place in which any vessel, spaceship, arms, munitions, or other materials or instruments for use in time of war are being made, prepared, repaired, stored, or are the subject of research or development, under any contract or agreement with a planetary government or the Galactic Empire, or any department or agency thereof, or with any person on behalf of a planetary government or the Galactic Empire, or otherwise on behalf of the a planetary government or the Galactic Empire, or any prohibited place so designated by the Ruling Council or planetary government(with Imperial Oversight) by proclamation in time of war or in case of planetary or galactic emergency in which anything for the use of the Army or Navy is being prepared or constructed or stored, information as to which prohibited place the Ruling Council or planetary government(with Imperial oversight) determined would be prejudicial to the planetary or galactic defense; or
(b) Whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, and with like intent or reason to believe, copies, takes, makes, or obtains, or attempts to copy, take, make, or obtain, any sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, document, writing, or note of anything connected with the planetary or galactic defense; or
© Whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, receives or obtains or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain from any person, or from any source whatever, any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note, of anything connected with the planetary or galactic defense, knowing or having reason to believe, at thetime he receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain it, that it has been or will be obtained, taken, made, or disposed of by any person contrary to the provisions of this chapter; or
(d) Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the planetary or galactic defense, or information relating to the planetary or galactic defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the same planetary government or the Galactic Empire or to the advantage of any foreign power, tribe, or other planet, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the same planetary government or the Galactic Empire entitled to receive it; or
(e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the planetary or galactic defense, or information relating to the planetary or galactic defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the same planetary government or the Galactic Empire or to the advantage of any foreign power, tribe, or other planet, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the same planetary government or the Galactic Empire entitled to receive it; or
(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the planetary or galactic defense,
(1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or
(2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer -
Shall be fined under this title no more than 10,000,000 Imperial Credits or imprisoned not more than twenty years of hard labor on the spice mines of Kessel, or both. If unable to pay the total amount of the fine levied against the convicted up to an additional 10 years on Kessel may be added in its stead.
(g) If two or more persons conspire to violate any of the foregoing provisions of this section, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be subject to the punishment provided for the offense which is the object of such conspiracy.
(h)(1) Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall forfeit to the same planetary government or Galactic Empire, irrespective of any provision of a lesser law, any property constituting, or derived from, any proceeds the person obtained, directly or indirectly, from any foreign foreign power, tribe, or other planet, or any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign foreign power, tribe, or other planet, whether recognized or unrecognized by the same planetary government or the Galactic Empire, as the result of such violation.
(2) The court, in imposing sentence on a defendant for a conviction of a violation of this section, shall order that the defendant forfeit to the same planetary government or the Galactic Empire, all property described inparagraph (1) of this subsection.
