Oversight In House Intelligence IDs And Rules?

[JonasHudson]

I suppose you could change it. ID rules, for BIS as example, prevent us from going higher than a cruiser, and can only fire in self defense while outside our ZOI. So say we find an unlawful base, or a GMS base in (ex) Orkney or Tau-23...we could RP around it, but can't fire on it anyways with anything big enough to threaten it as an intel ship. So all we could do as intel is report the base's existence, if BAF had zoi we'd call in the heavies. If not we could try contacting other factions capable, or simply resort to harassment of supply ships etc with smaller craft at worst. So even being able to enforce laws inrp way out there, we'd still be limited to what we can do on our own. And frankly, as it is, we still can show up way up there and harass any Gallic ships supplying any bases. Either way, we'd still call in appropriate factions with real firepower.

As to reporting Junkers who pirate outside of house space...well if you do see it while flying an intel ID, and it was legit rule wise, you could still pass an individual bounty on them intead. Intel ID's should always have that option.

The Bretonia Intelligence Service is the Bretonian covert operations service, who specialise in spying and sabotage outside of Bretonian space

As to piracy, the only real form of sabotage available to us is piracy, or NEMP attacks. Sabotage here means attacking shipping behind the lines at the very least.

Otherwise, tracking criminals outside of house space can still be done, but individually by the agent. You can't police them there, but can call the bounty in. Start a profile, you can RP around that, just cant take it as far as having them branded as criminals inside house space. A Sirius wide bounty can sometime be worse. Far as I always believed, any ship you encounter uncloaked you could bounty from any ID, so for intel to want to help out like that should be fine. In our case, if we saw said Junker pirating a Bretonian Lawful in Tau-23, we could move in to assist ourselves. If its pirating a FL and it rubs you the wrong way, bounty. If it was Kishiro or Samura...is it our business? We aren't cops, we have other concerns and can't always risk our own mission for strangers. If you want to police outside house space, in that place, fly as IMG (or BHG) you can attack any pirate just for the unlawful act still, can't you? It also lets you confiscate contraband. For that sort of role, you'd see me with an FL IFF and IMG ID, and I'd rp as an IMG mercenary out to provide anti criminal support. (or straight up Freelancer, and register on a BB in advance).

I'd also like to mention the use of cloaks. I think intel and Spec Op ID's should be able to do just about anything cloaked. I've gathered data while cloaked, acknowledged events and discussion, but not passed any bounties, criminal accusations, or pushed for FR5's due to info gained while cloaked. But for intel factions, we should be able to use stuff we see cloaked to pass bounties and criminal accusations at least. Why? Because if you are cloaked and inside house space especially and you do see something or hear something, why should you ignore it because you were cloaked, and why would you hold back because you were cloaked? Like if a pirate is attacking miners, and you fly in cloaked, perhaps you can't or prefer not to engage for whatever reason, or you just show up to see the trader blow up, why would you reveal yourself to be able to use the scans and pics to report him back to the police or military, or bounty him yourself?

Safest thing would be allow at least intel ID's to rp anything cloaked up to the point of envoking faction rights. If you can prove you were there, invisible or not, info gathered should be valid to rp. Giving intel ID's that ability is a start, because then tough to acquire intel can be gatherd by the right ID's. As to FR5 worthy offenses, its like a strike system. Seen once cloaked, strike one, we can tell our police/military about the pirate threat, then its up to them to catch them in the act out in the open to get the FR5. Sound reasonable?

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