Should Militaries Be Allowed to Scan and Halt People?

[marauder]

Just a point here, but, unless it's been changed I'm pretty sure that the military NPCs scan you too.

The police NPCs do it more often (like 6 times between the fort bush trade lane and manhattan's docking ring) but I do remember being scanned by military NPCs and ordered to drop cargo.

Therefore why can't player military factions?

Plus, I also remember that police factions never have been that popular because the military gets all the HFs, VHF and capships. While people seem to think that police factions should only use LFs.

Just something to think about.

EDIT:

After reading the other thread about police factions and their ship use... Perhaps it should be worded differently.

Something like that while the police can stop and scan/demand cargo within say, 10k of planets, bases/stations and tradelanes then military can only do so beyond 10k of planets, bases/stations and trade lanes.

That way theres a definate seperation of the two. Police patrol the lanes, around planets and bases/stations while the military patrol the areas in-between.

just another thought to mull over.