NPC scanning habits

[Jinx]

lawfuls scan you no matter waht faction you are - but thats OK...

they only want living cargo - which they consider to be treated in an unresponsible way by the char. - what does it mean for the char? - a few thousand bucks slip his pocket... no big deal.

however, there are the odd - .... lets call them ... collectors of living cargo. the most unlikely chars that fly around with hundreds of BHG pilots, other lawfuls - or sometimes pirates. those people loose a lot when being scanned. - but then, gotto ask yourself ... why do you fly around with so many anyway?

i have met zoners with well over 150 BHGs in their hold, when asking them why the frell they do so - they answer rubbish like - they started it // they are my enemies // i hate them. - all very *good* RP answers indeed. but mostly its a testiment of how much they know about the relations between the factions...... not. ( same happens with BHG chars that fly around with hundreds of pirates - instead of delivering them to a prison station )

i don t need to collect hundreds of pirates or others before i can release them. so whenever i have so many aboard, its more a trophy than a bounty hunt...and for that, i find it OK when the lawfuls ask for them.

when i fly around sirius and i kill the occasional ambushing pirates at the lane, i end up with maybe 3 - 10 pirates. when asked to drop them by the random patrol, i regard them with THANKS, cause they take away the tedious business from me to take them to the next police station. - and so i d drop them.

it was said before that pirates don t ask for cargo unless the player is white ( neutral ) to them. - now to be specific...

zoners are MEANT to be white to basicly everyone. ( no, not green to pirates... junkers might be green sometimes, but zoners are not ) - they are asked to drop their cargo... thats life. when hanging around FP11, you see regular fights between corsair NPCs and zoner NPCs, cause the zoners refuse to drop the cargo.

furthermore, zoners are on the negative white scale with house units ( or meant to be ) - they do not like the core systems, they avoid them whenever possible and only use htem to either buy some quick supplies or pass through ( ideal case ) .... the lawfuls don t like zoners either. zoners are a bit like gypsies in the modern days. - they might be around, they buy your stuff, but they don t pay your tax, cause they don t live there.

for the police, they are "the usual suspects", not as shady as the junkers for sure, but on another level. junkers are the usual lowlife criminals ( that are not really criminals ) - something the police always got to make up their mind about... useful, but in doubt suspicious enough. - zoners are rich, but that doesn t make them less suspicious.

one might comapre them to the jews in the medieval times. rich, influencial - and a lot of people disliked them for just being that. jealousy without much reason - and we know what it can turn into back then, the authorities disliked most jews, too ( mostly cause they were dependent on them ) - so its part of being a zoner to be confronted by dislike. zoners are not meant to meet a happy face wherever they go - except when they meet other zoners.

so maybe the scanning is annoying - but its nothing i d call annoying in an ooRP way.

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