Distinction between LPI & BHG in Liberty

[Athenian]

Incoming Transmission
To: All parties
From: Office of The Director, S/D Agency, New London
Subject: Liberty
Priority: Normal

Message reads:

Thank you for your recent communication regarding the activities of the Bounty Hunters Guild in Liberty.

The Guild as you may well know is a confraternity of individuals, some of whom operate in para-military fashion while others are loners who shun the company of others. Given the stampeding I have seen in Liberty once a known criminal raises his head within a light year of Houston, one can understand all too easily why the latter adopt their approach. Perhaps the Guild has erred on the side of a liberal distribution of licenses and identity cards. But that is another day's discussion. As professionals, we must ensure we monitor and regulate ourselves with wisdom.

Each Guild member must act according to a code. "To hunt a criminal, one must think like a criminal." This comes more easily to some of us than to others. Make no mistake, though, we are in this for money and because it is the one thing many of us can do well. Added to this, for many of us, it is the only option left to us.

Why is the Guild in Liberty? How much time have you? The Guild was born in Liberty at a time when the current spiralling crime levels began. But the past is another country, as they say, and I won't digress in that regard.

Bear in mind that these "Bounty Hunters" are people too. We count many citizens of Liberty among our ranks, from Texas as well as New York. In fact, I attended a "hoe-down" at the family homestead of one of our top-ranking agents on Houston recently and was most impressed by the fiddle music, alcohol and lax attitude to the laws of god and man regarding incest.

Enclosed are facsimiles from our lawyers which reflects our understanding of the legal justification for our continued involvement with the fine individuals of the Navy and Liberty Police Incorporated. If you read them carefully, I'm sure you will find all you need. These are the contracts the Search and Destroy Agency operates under.

A minor note: any individual not following the directives of the Navy and Police in Liberty may be committing a crime if they use violence in a manner that goes beyond the remit of these contracts.



Transmission ends

ENCLOSED FILES:

Notice on Fort Bush bulletin board

General bounties

100,000 credits for the destruction of any Outcast, Hacker, Rogue, or Xeno fighter. Requirements: Must be a Bounty Hunter, must fly a fighter-class ship, does not cover LF Mk 1s (Daggers, Bloodhounds, etc.)

150,000 credits for the destruction of any Outcast, Hacker, Rogue, or Xeno bomber. Requirements: Must be a Bounty Hunter, must fly a fighter-class or bomber-class ship

200,000 credits for the destruction of any Outcast, Hacker or Rogue gunboat. Requirements: Must be a Bounty Hunter, can fly up to a gunboat-class ship

50,000 credits for the successful interdiction of any smugglers, either by forcing them to drop or destroying. Requirements: Must be a Bounty Hunter, must fly a fighter-class or bomber-class ship

NOTE: any 'assists', where an LPI vessel is present, results in 50% of the normal pay. Any 'assists' where the LN/LSF are present results in 75% normal pay. Proof must be in the form of gun-camera pictures. If the ships are LH, HF, LR, or XA ((player faction)) ships, the pay is increased by 25,000 credits. MERCENARIES AND FREELANCERS ARE NOT PAID

Due to the recent excessive influx of the narcotic substance widely referred to as "Cardamine",
the Liberty Navy High Command places a bounty on absolutely ALL smugglers of this substance.

The bounty can be collected by:

The DarkWing mercenary organization,
The Jupiter Guild mercenary organization,
The Search/Destroy Agency,
The Independent Miner's Guild,
The Colonial Remnant,
All Bounty Hunters,
And lastly, all lawfully-aligned mercenaries who are registered in and permitted into Liberty space.

The bounty can be collected if the following circumstances are met:

I: The ship in question is transporting more than one hundred (100) units of the "Cardamine" substance in it's cargo hold.
VISUAL CONFIRMATION IS REQUIRED.

II: The ship in question is intercepted and destroyed by the person wishing to collect the bounty.
VISUAL CONFIRMATION IS REQUIRED.

III: The ship in question is intercepted and destroyed in one of the following systems:
Alberta, Bering, Cortez,
Galileo, Hudson, Kepler,
Magellan, Minnesota, Ontario,
Quebec, Yukon,
Sigma-13, Sigma-17, Sigma-19, Sigma-60,
Tau-23, Tau-29, Tau-31, Tau-37,
Omega-3, Omega-5, Omega-7, Omega-11,
Omicron Delta, Omicron Kappa and Omicron Minor.
VISUAL CONFIRMATION IS REQUIRED.

IV: The "Cardamine" substance is destroyed.
For each cargo unit of the "Cardamine" substance that is prevented from reaching Liberty,
the Liberty Navy will pay one hundred (100) Sirius Credits.
All who wish to collect the bounty are to contact the Liberty Navy over this communications channel.

Signed,

Admiral John Talon

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Former member of "the most paranoid group of people in the community"
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