Hypocrisy

[Orin]

Let's listen to a IRL comparison...

An armed drug dealer drives his cleverly disguised super duty van through New York, not knowing that his good "friend" Eddy just ratted him out to local authorities. Suddenly...

Three tanks roll into his path, one of them utterly crushing the front of his car. Soon after, the piercing shriek of three F-22 Raptors struck down from above with a devestating salvo of automatic weapons fire. The lightly armored vehicle was utterly torn to shreds...

"Bogey down, Alpha Leader. Heading back to base, over."

Point taken? A lil' ole cardimine or artifacts smuggler rolls into NY and we've got Naval Capital ships all over him. What? This makes no sense. If a Hellfire assault force wages war on Liberty, roll in the heavy artillery, by all means. But a smuggler or two? Or a few Rogues (Freelancer's equivilent of petty crooks)? Maybe send a few Naval fighters. There are much more Navy pilots than there are LPI, so I'll give them that, but honestly. The LPI should be taking care of more than the Navy. Real goverments don't roll out the cavalry in case of a few criminals.

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