police vs Pirates

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Note: I edited my previous post.

The hostage situation is actually a nice idea:). In such case I would probably follow the smuggler (if possible) until he unloads the passengers somewhere and then deal with him. Of course there are two problems, first one is what if he decides to flee outside of Liberty and the second one what does "deal with him" really mean since the only possible punishment is blowing up his ship.

And I didn't try to answer at all the real question --

When is a smuggler considered escaped?

EDIT: Ok, one idea after all -- if the smuggler already unloaded his cargo, he could say that he's not carrying anything illegal and therefore you have no evidence and no right to shoot at him. (So he's escaped as soon as he docked with a base and sold the contraband.)

EDIT2: But I agree with Spear that docking at a lawful base near which you got caught smuggling is a very bad RP.

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