to liberty authorities from [collectors]

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[color=#000000]commodore,

we do not find this comparison fair-- the proposal was to permit a handful of specific callsigns to use reconditioned trains. i agree that permitting everyone and their mother to use these quasilegal ships freely would, as you said, cause huge problems for the good citizenry of liberty. a small number of known, law-abiding vessels licensed and registered to use the ship would certainly not create any problems, as you can count on us not to smuggle (or suffer severe consequences.)

you also assume that smugglers only use this train. in my days as a junker i have seen many smugglers operating all sorts of vessels-- mammoths, borderworld transports, and occasionally even storks and mastodons with forged paperwork! i suppose it would be best to ban all of these vessels too?

we can of course increase the registration fee to cover the background check for pilots to receive licenses if that would assuage the problem . . .

carlos ortiz