Heading the trader off at the pass.

[Dusty Lens]

Just an observation about the roleplaying : In roleplay terms, dropping lifeless cargo is one thing. Committing mass murder against a few thousand passengers is another level altogether. Perhaps you should make a distinction between the two. There's nothing to stop you doling out expensive repair bills and blowing off all their guns and equipment.

*taps on the "terrorist" sign*

Though to be fair I, at least, have never engaged in exploding the scattered ejection pods of the hapless persons who had secured passage for destinations unknown. Though when one is engaged in the process of calling attention to ones cause in a rather noisy fashion sending a few thousand passengers hurtling about in lifeboats is a good way to remind people of what's going on.

We don't need to slaughter Libertonians and potentially demonize our cause in the eyes of the people who support it. Doesn't mean we're going to let a buncha folks who're dropping coin to a shipping company have any leeway when passing us by.

As to the homegrown/foreign question: It's worth noting that we keep our paws off of Universal shipping transports. In addition to granting us some kickbacks and pressing various bits of legislation that keeps Xenos off of the chopping block and back into Huntsville circulation whence snagged there is a level of "homegrown" that makes that affair slightly more attractive.

Doesn't mean we like them though, as they're pretty much giving us a legup as it's good business.

But, the end point being that the majority of Liberty's exports, what the homeboys are moving, are being produced by the same folks that cut the lower majority out of the picture. It's hard to smile and nod at a fellow pushing consumer goods produced at for profit prison factory.

Edit: Zoners... Ugh.

I like the Zoners and the Zonie way of life a great deal. What I don't like are Zoner battleships full of Xenos and Zoners who suddenly join in a fight, or "Zoners" with police tags carrying the same grindastic trade goods as everyone else.

Double Edit: But I think the question has been resolved in a "rules" sense.