Naturally lit indoor spaces

Usage examples of atria.

You are charged with killing fifty-seven sentient entities on the planet Atria XVI.

Manslaughter, murder three, involuntary homicide—none of these terms exist in Atrian law.

I don't know if he was drunk or sober, but, for whatever reason, he voluntarily or involuntarily—he swears it was the latter—turned off his T-pack while walking down a major Atrian thoroughfare.

The heat of his body would have killed every Atrian within two hundred feet of him.

Seems we're cultivating the Atrians’ friendship, so he's got to stand trial.

But for those crimes that could be committed by non-Atrians, they were meaningful in the extreme.

And, finally, there was only one court on Atria, because of the relative absence of crime.

As yet, his case hadn't been heard on Atria XVI, for on that unthinkably frigid world there were no bills of indictment, no pretrial hearings, nothing but a simple verdict of innocent or guilty.

First, the only Atrian who won a court case on any other world was executed upon returning to Atria XVI, because they thought the judgment had been too lenient.

Assuming he hasn't been sleeping all afternoon, he should have figured out what form of communication passes for video on Atria XVI.

My interpretation is that under Atrian law, murder need not be premeditated, but is defined simply and explicitly as the taking of one or more Atrian lives, by any means whatsoever, with or without motive or preknowledge.

If you cannot prove, absolutely and beyond question, that Man Krantz did not cause the deaths of fifty-seven Atrians, then you are wasting the court's time.

If, in the next instant, my life-support system should fail, due to a malfunction that is clearly the fault of the manufacturer, a tremendous amount of heat would shortly escape my protective suit, enough heat to destroy every Atrian in the room.

And let us also keep in mind that you have found—hypothetically, to be sure—that a law can be impractical, and that the death of an Atrian is not necessarily the responsibility of the destroying agent.

Heinrich Krantz, a man with no prior criminal record, found himself on a crowded Atrian thoroughfare.