Sky People/Council

The Council is the governing institution that made executive decisions for the Ark and now Arkadia. It is headed by the Chancellor. Below the Council are the general Officers who make up the Ark's bureaucracy and the Guard who maintain law enforcement and safety.

Through Project Exodus, the Council planned for the eventual return of the Sky People to Earth via Exodus ships. They also created the Exodus Charter which contains the new laws for governing once the Sky People returned to the Ground.

History
After decades aboard the Ark, the Council still makes decisions for the public. Traditionally, each Council member is appointed by the Chancellor and approved by the other Council members, as in the case of Diana Sydney. Those who are on the Council are acknowledged as leaders and often possess classified information. Information from the Council is disseminated to the rest of the Sky People via "Station Representatives."

The Council also decided the fate of people accused of wrong-doing on The Ark. Due to the resource scarcity on the Ark, all adult criminals were punished with death and juvenile offenders were imprisoned until they turned 18 when they were either freed or executed. Certain matters, like The Culling, are put forth by a 4-vote majority. If it is a tie, then the Chancellor acts as the tie-breaker. If the Chancellor abstains, then the matter is put to a re-vote in ten days.

Project Exodus
"There are 2,237 people on this Ark and there are only enough dropships to carry 700. We are on the Titanic and there aren't enough lifeboats."

- Jaha to The Council

Project Exodus was the plan to send the people on the Ark to the ground in approximately three more generations. Originally, there were eight Exodus ships, which weren't enough to carry everyone from the Ark safely to the ground. This was a flaw to be fixed in the next 100 years but they ran out of time.

One of the dropships was used to send the Delinquents to Earth to find out if it was inhabitable. After Diana Sydney's mutiny that left The Ark crippled and the remaining dropships unusable, they ended up using the Ark itself to bring everyone to earth.

Exodus Charter
The Exodus Charter was created by the Council on the Ark in preparation for the eventual return of the Sky People to Earth since the vastly different environments required different rules and regulations.

Under these rules and regulations, unauthorized use of firearms was to be punishable as a felony with 10 shock lashes and only the Ark Guard was allowed firearms. The punishment for high treason was execution.

Chancellors
The Council is headed by the Chancellor. Certain matters, like The Culling, are put forth by a 4-vote majority. If it is a tie, then the Chancellor acts as the tie-breaker. If the Chancellor abstains, then the matter is put to a re-vote in ten days.

Diana Sydney
While Diana Sydney was Chancellor, she worked on the Exodus Charter and Project Exodus. She was voted out in favor of Thelonious Jaha, but maintained quite a few supporters. Prior to the Delinquents being sent to Earth, she began her attempt regain power by initially trying to have Chancellor Thelonious Jaha assassinated. When that failed, she had a bomb set off during the Unity Day celebrations, killing four Council members in the process, and stole an Exodus ship with her followers, leaving the Ark crippled. Mount Weather caused the Exodus ship to crash, killing all on board, including Sydney.

Thelonious Jaha
Thelonious Jaha was the last Chancellor aboard The Ark. He was Chancellor when the discovery of the flaw in the life support systems occurred in 2148 and subsequently he ordered the 100 to earth to see if it was survivable. He was also responsible for The Culling. Following the disastrous results of Diana's mutiny, he managed to bring the people in the Ark to Earth, but needed to remain behind to launch the Ark to Earth and passed the Chancellorship to Marcus Kane.

Marcus Kane
Councilor Kane was Chancellor Jaha's second in command and briefly the acting Chancellor when Jaha was incapacitated after being shot by Bellamy Blake in an assassination attempt. After the Exodus from the Ark, he became the first Chancellor on Earth, Kane established Camp Jaha and began enforcing the rules set forth in the Exodus Charter. After less than a week in office, Kane resigned in order to lead a diplomatic mission to make peace with the Grounders, passing to Abby the Chancellor's pin.

Abigail Griffin
Under Abigail Griffin's chancellorship, a tentative peace with the Grounders was established and the war with Mount Weather was ended and won with the remaining Delinquents being brought back to Camp Jaha, which was soon renamed to Arkadia. At Arkadia, Chancellor Griffin helped establish a working community, complete with stables, a hangar bay, and a medical facility. After four months as chancellor and head doctor for the Sky People, Chancellor Griffin tried to pass the chancellorship pin back to Kane, however, he refused and suggested an election instead.

Charles Pike
Charles Pike was the former Chancellor. After Chancellor Griffin decided to step aside as Chancellor, an election was held. With support from Bellamy Blake and survivors of Farm Station, Pike won the election. His first acts as Chancellor was to free himself from prison, declare the Skaikru membership into the Coalition as invalid, and order a massacre of 300 Trikru warriors, who had been sent by the Coalition to protect Arkadia from the potential threat of the Ice Nation. At the end of Season Three, he is stabbed to death by Octavia Blake as a revenge for Lincoln's death.

Council Members
Traditionally, each Council member is appointed by the Chancellor and approved by the other Council members. Those who are on the Council are acknowledged as leaders and often possess classified information.

Officers
An Officer is a high rank in the bureaucracy of the Ark. Above the general officers is the Ark's governing Council which is led by the current Chancellor. The Ark's officers have information not accessible to most of the Ark's residents. Certain key knowledge is further restricted to just the Council itself.

Notes and Trivia

 * In Contents Under Pressure, it is revealed that Project Exodus only had enough dropships to bring 700 people to earth.
 * Under the Exodus Charter, unauthorized use of firearms was to be punishable as a felony with 10 shock lashes.
 * Abigail Griffin was punished in "Reapercussions" with 10 shock-lashes after committing said felony (providing guns to the Delinquents).
 * As of "Spacewalker," it appears this law is no longer enforced with even John Murphy being given a gun by Major Byrne.
 * Bellamy, Clarke, and Jasper have all been leaders of the Delinquents, who are Sky People but were not Chancellors or Council members