Rule clarification

[tfmachad]

why wouldn't a pirate patrol? remember the Corsairs are involved in a war... several in fact, they also have a known home system, with a home planet; Crete, and known bases, that they would want to defend... it makes absolute sense that they patrol their space for potential threats.

When I said that I was more thinking about the generic Pirate ID. For me, the difference between two Corsair tagged ships, one IDed Pirate and the other Corsair is that the second one belongs to the general militaristic organization that would answer directly to the Corsair nation organization/government/rulers. The Pirate IDed ship would be more loosely affiliated, maybe a guy born in Crete, friendly to the Corsair organization, but not directly linked to them. I said it would be out of RP because if you take that interpretation into consideration it would be like a civilian doing military/police stuff.

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because they way i read it now, is that anything bigger than a gunboat is all talk but effectively useless and impotent.. other than giving a warning....
"don't dock there im in a battleship you have been warned"

but then the smuggler thinks : "well the cap ship cant shoot at me, and the fighters have to catch me, so la la la I'll just dock anyway...."

is that OORP?
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The issue I see in this, and I don't really know whether there's will or way to implement enforce it is that strict unlawful territories like Omicron Gamma could be treated as an inverted reality from the lawful territories. Pirates, namely Corsairs in our example, would be the law enforcers in those areas. So if a trader enters Gamma with a load of passengers it's pretty much like he is entering New York hauling Cardamine. The difference is that LSF can blast the offender with anything they got, while the Corsairs wouldn't be able to do the same if they happen to be flying their pimp battlecruiser to impress the chicas when they spot the tour bus, which is pretty much lame if you think of it, but it's in the rules anyway. I really don't know if this could/would be changed and I'm afraid to even consider the implications of it. To be honest, I shiver to the though.

The way we are now, if you're sitting by yourself in an unlawful battleship yes, there's little you can do but swear at the guy. Oh wait no, you can't do that.:D

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