The Kusari State Police

[Echo 7-7]

Welp, IDs aren't supposed to be InRP items, that would be close of metagaming.
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While I have no comments on the current KSP's behaviour at the moment, I'll throw in my 2 cents about IDs.

The ID itself is not an item which exists within the roleplay environment. It as purely game-mechanical object designed to assist players on a non-roleplay level, to provide assistance as to how they should treat another player's character with their own character. (This is in addition to the IFF, which should be a primary/initial form of identification, but not necessarily the only one.)

Due to the limitations of Freelancer's game engine, the ID is a simple tool which can be used to provide information about a character to another character without having the other character explain exactly who they are. For example, when a Police ID'd ship approaches a Pirate ID'd ship, the Police ship is able to identify the other ship as being flown by a pirate. To justify this sudden possession of information, which has been provided by a meta mechanic, but is not meta information itself*, one might say that the Police ship identified the pirate on a database of known criminals.

*The only in-character data that can be gleaned from the ID item is its title. An additional feature it provides are a listing of server rules pertaining to a particular rule, but these are irrelevant, as these rules also do not exist within the roleplay environment. A competent roleplayer is able to explain in-character why his/her character will not perform an action which violates the rules on their ID.

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