-keep out of omicron 100!-

[Tenacity]

So a trader or smuggler "works for" the factions they trade with? So an artifact smuggler works for both the Corsairs and Liberty? Pretty much all (or at least most) artifacts are destined to Manhattan. So by your logic, the smuggler works for both the Corsairs and Liberty ... ironic. Guess Liberty shouldn't be complaining much since Manhattan sells counterfeit software. My smuggler moving this counterfeit software would be working for Liberty right? After all ... Liberty DOES sell contraband. Manhattan buys all kinds of contraband and sells counterfeit software. And Houston sells slaves.

The artifact trade is run by the corsairs. A large portion fo the profit from that trade gets back to the corsairs.

Likewise, the outcasts run the cardamine trade and recieve the majority of profit from it.

No money is getting to liberty with either of these goods - in fact, money is being -taken- from liberty by the smugglers who sell the contraband there.

So explain why traders are justified for the Diamond / Niobium route that passes through Sigma 13, Chugoku and Hokkaido. Is this cheating as well? They're all neutral with pirates and terrorists. Smugglers ... pay careful attention to what that word means ... are designed to ferry cargo "undetected" by authorities. Smugglers entire goal is to get cargo from point A to point B without being detected ... SO ... if they pass through undetected by you or even your NPCs ... the smuggler has done his job effectively. A smuggler's success is to make you ... the lawful guy ... think the cargo he's carrying is legal. Its YOUR job to scan him and verify the cargo is not contraband. If you're not there and your Order NPCs don't do their job (which they do scan and demand contraband is dropped) ... then you can only blame yourself.

If the order npc's dont do their job, the player has fixed his/her rep to achieve that effect - and that is against server rules, and sanctionable.

In a normal house system, a smuggler might be able to hide the fact that he's carrying contraband - thought it's very unlikely, even one unit of cardamine will get scanned by NPC police/navy and you'll get attacked for having it. Most smugglers in house systems fly through open space to avoid such patrols - they dont take any such precautions in omicron 100, they simply fix their rep and fly straight past battleship Isis like nothing is out of the ordinary.

The difference here is that omicron 100 is -not- a 'standard house system'. Nobody is allowed in that system except order tagged and ID'd ships. A smuggler is not order tagged, and not order ID'd, and as such should be hostile to all the npcs and bases in that system - if they arent, they're OoRP.

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