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[Moberg]

All the guys saying "Navy shouldn't be scanning, thats police work" need to remember this is SPACE. The police may take care of smuggling in little dinky donky village planetside, but space smuggling is definitely the navy's domain as well. Did the hordes of navy NPCs scanning you not tip you off to that?

And all those saying "Scanning shouldnt be done in caps" Enjoy playing mission 2, where the navy puts BATTLESHIPS on every jumpgate to do exactly that. As well as the fact that every stationary battleship scans npcs that come into range and asks their destination.


You guys really need to stop trying to force your own views of how things should be, onto freelancer lore, and RP properly.

You, however, fail to mention the circumstances in which the battleship was used. A Rheinland cruiser was on a diplomatic mission in the system, as such increased security and awareness is advised. Then, said cruiser was destroyed right infront of the capital. At that time, the Navy simply wanted to lock the system down and / or control all ships that go in and out of the system.

On another note, they had information about an important person whose information can be used against smugglers, heading towards New York. The lockdown / control caused by the destruction of the Donau was only beneficial to the entire mission against Sean Ashcroft.

I think permanently using battleships for that who travel around the system the whole time is simply a waste of resources.