Smuggling Is Not Unlawful

[Lonely_Ghost]

So, we take a situation- Your character is a captain of a 5Ker ship. He has made nice career, he loves his job, nice salary, package bonuses, premium health care. He is respected among his friends and family, and a son of the guy living next door to him, wants to become a ship captain too, when he grows up. Nice, don't you think? Would he risks with everything he have achieved, by taking part in some "shady" business? Yes? I guess your IQ is around 30...

You're making a lot of assumptions about how corporations in Sirius treat their employees for someone with an IQ higher than 30, almost as if Xenos, Unioners, Hessians, Molly's, all these revolutionary factions gave up that "luxurious corporate life" because they're masochists, amirite?

Not everyone becomes a 5Ker captain you know. Someone should be doing more "grounded" work. And therefore, those who are lucky enough to climb into 5Ker captain's seat, would surely be valuing their current status.

Either, your captain and whole ship's crew (what a unity!) decided to go rogue, operating outside of employer's company legal general operations. In this case, everyone on board would be considered as criminals, and are going to charged for: Unauthorised and illegal acquisition of corporate asset & conducting illegal transportation operations - smuggling. Your character can say "goodbye" to his previous life.

Implying they get caught, and every cop in Sirius is an unbribable paragon of justice.
Happy are those simple of mind.

Indeed, not everyone. You can be lucky once, twice, might be even five times in a row... But how it usually happens: "Last time, things went rly wrong". Once upon a time, you can run into "unbribable" one.
Therefore, reference to first argument.

If your ship was caught smuggling while being authorised to do it by your employer, company should face a lot of problem, your captain shall be still charged for smuggling, and possibly being thrown into jail.
So that how it would be inRP.

Implying a mega corporation that makes transactions in the billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions with their own monopoly of 5k transport factories can't afford an army of lawyers to bail them out for outright murder. Implying Liberty would destroy it's own economy to make a company like DSE "face a lot of problem" -as you put it because every now and then some employees decide to go the extra mile...as if the governments would even find out that they were authorized by the employers cause surely someone transporting Jump Gate parts as casually as Kyushu rice doesn't have measures against corporate espionage.
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Well, let's dig it deeper then. Let's assume, that corp, like DSE is caught authorising not very legal operations. And they are caught doing it.

Sure, company would not be dismantled right away, and will continue to operate, paying 0.0001% of their annual income as fine, might be.
But in same time, company would be caught in scandal- which would definitely impact on company's image, stock price and other intangible assets.
Company's shareholders won't be happy with that. Possible "inter-house" contracts could be threatened by this scandal, additional attention from foreign law enforcement groups is also going to be guaranteed.

Rly, for such purpose, if the DSE would ever be interested in doing any "gray" stuff, they would hire some freelancers, who are going to be completely unaffiliated with company, and even if getting caught- they never going to be able to prove anything. Simple like that.

It would be great to give something like that to every major shipping corp, with having a line written in their ID.

Government contracting corporations to transport questionable stuff is a thing, you know, just get the parties involved to write the RP up and there you go transporting human organs with your ALG Waste Disposal 5'ker.
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If the government needs to move some indeed "shady sh*t", there are special services to answer the call. No extra questions, much lower probability of information leak, generally safer.

Speaking about special requests/RP, the several can rly soon became Discovery Special RP server, with Outcast "defected" capital ships patrolling Manhattan's orbit, Nomads engaged in farming, and bounty hunters are pure pacifists, prohibited to mount guns on their ships, using only power of conviction.