Smuggling Is Not Unlawful

[Champ]

I don't believe it is well known, so I feel compelled to write that it is the consensus and guiding logic of the staff that smuggling;

i.e. a trader intentionally carrying what is considered contraband by lawful authorities in the space they're in, and is thus committing a crime according to houses' law;

does not constitute an unlawful action for the purposes of ID rules like "may not participate in any unlawful actions except as described above." Therefore, any corporate ID can haul any contraband and it is not in contravention of the server rules. Interspace can haul cardamine, Bowex can haul slaves, Republican can haul human organs.

I might be totally wrong in thinking that it is commonly believed that lawful ID'd characters may not do these things, so vote above!

I am personally of the opinion that this grants a great deal of leeway and advantage to lawful ID'd ships, being that instead of using a Freelancer ID'd 3600 space-limited transport to smuggle, 5K lawful corporate IDs could, if able to access a sell point or fence, travel the exact same route. I personally think that this is inconsistent with the characters implied by the ID. I'm not saying no employee of any corporation is involved somehow, I just think that for balance purposes, outside of an SRP, it wouldn't have been permitted, or at least should have been explicitly written into rules (or a better clarification thread which I'm working on sorry sorry sorry).

"What do you think?"

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