The recent FR5 against the 101st got me wondering regarding the consequences of ones actions if the person witnessing and reporting the deed is cloaked. I know this used to be an issue before back when Kruger (or was it Daumann? @Jack_Henderson can say which it was for sure) used to follow IMG on cloaked liners to spot them doing roleplay that puts IMG in bad light with the Rheinland government. That eventually lead to some rules regarding lawful roleplay consequences™ and a clear set of systems in which that could happen as well as forcing only certain IDs to be able to witness in certain systems. You can read the rules regarding that here at the bottom of the post. But at the same time there is nothing like that regarding unlawfuls in the rules, even if the 2 major unlawful factions are big enough to count as a pseudo-house (Corsairs and Outcasts).
Though I think I'm starting to drift off from the original intent I had for this thread with all this storytelling - how do you guys feel about facing consequences from being spied upon by a cloaked ship without having a way to be aware of it's presence? On one side I see it as a a utility of the cloak for intelligence gathering which is nice, but on the other there's the obvious room for abuse that we have seen with the IMG/Kruger thing.
