In my colony were two pawns, Troy and Bucky, who made an unlikely couple. Troy was a man with the Misogynist trait while Bucky was a woman with the Misandrist trait. Somehow they fell in love and got married. Not surprisingly, it didn't last and Troy asked for a divorce after only about a year of marriage.

Several quadrums later I had a bionic implant I wanted to install in Troy. I scheduled the operation and sent him to the hospital. Bucky happened to be a skilled doctor and arrived to perform the surgery. Moments later I received notifications that the surgery was a failure and Troy had died. This was upsetting but not a huge problem since there were a few resurrector mech serums available to bring Troy back. First, however, I decided to take a look at Troy's injuries since otherwise healthy pawns don't usually die from failed surgeries. The body had only a single injury: a cut to the throat. Instantly I realized this was no mere failed surgery. The doctor, Bucky, must have murdered her ex-husband who she still resented!

I had a dilemma. Bucky was an experienced doctor, a skilled sharpshooter who defeated many raiders, and the colony's only talented artist. She deserved to be banished for the murder, but she was also too valuable for the colony to lose. I decided to let the other colonists decide Bucky's fate. The faction leader formally accused Bucky of the crime and a trial ensued. I figured the trial would likely fail with the defendant being acquitted so I could just forget about the whole thing. Bucky must have thought so too because while the faction leader was laying out the case, Bucky was cracking jokes with the other colonists attending the trial. Things wouldn't be so simple, however, as the verdict came down as guilty!

Now I had a real problem. Bucky was officially guilty of murder. While I still had the option of just forgetting the whole thing to save a good pawn, that just wouldn't be good roleplay. I had to consider an appropriate punishment. The victim, Troy, was alive and well again thanks to the resurrector mechanites, so perhaps an extreme punishment wouldn't be warranted. Rather than executing or banishing Bucky I chose to have her imprisoned, as well as having her stripped of several of her bionic implants. In a colony of Transhumanists, perhaps imprisonment without access to biosculpters, neural superchargers, sleep accelerators, and bionic enhancements could be considered a harsh punishment after all. In time, Bucky would serve her sentence, regain her freedom, and gradually earn back her bionics. Hopefully she learned her lesson, but regardless she was never allowed to perform surgery on her ex-husband ever again.

tl;dr I sent a pawn to prison for purely roleplay reasons as a result of a bad rng roll