BHG Warships. A flawed concept?

[NonSequitor]

Athenian raises a good point in regards to the 'blanket bounties' (nice term btw!)... there are two sides to every coin.

Here is an alternative to outlawing blanket bounties:

Blanket bounties are outlawed and can ONLY be placed by Law Enforcement factions, and to be enacted within space directly controlled by that faction ONLY. For example, Bretonian Armed Forces could place a blanket bounty on all pirates in Bretonian controlled systems.

This would allow blanket bounties to be in effect in 'civilized' space and prevent blanket bounties placed on a system such as Malta or Gamma, where bounty hunter cap fleets could just run amuck.

Really any other blanket bounty other than what i've described above would be obscenely out of RP, and bankrupt any character or organization. You place a blanket bounty for all pirates in a borderworld system, and you've suddenly got every bounty hunter in the known worlds swarming there and killing everything in sight. Only a government would be able to afford this, and even then - they would only spare the funds to protect their own directly controlled territories.

I say, if some merchant or private company has the credits, they may post blanket bounties. Imo. If they run out of funds, they simply suspend the bounty until further notice.

And, as I and countless others have said already, no bounties will be offered to BHs flying cap ships in 4.85. Period. (notable exceptions being the Orca and the new gunship). Why? Because all the cap ships will be in the Omicrons, Sigmas and Omegas. Why will the cap ships be there? Because there's this big war-thingy going on there. Since the naughty BH cap ships will be preoccupied with pew-pewing the Order, the Nomads and any unfortunate third party elements who get in between the BH and that Nomad tech, they will not be wandering off into House Space. Nor will they be allowed to.

So, If you're a regular BH (as opposed to the BH Guard, also know as Core BH) you may fly your LF/HF/VHF/bomber/gunship/gunboat wherever your work takes you (Kusari being the exception - stupid isolationists).

I think that this is clean-cut division of tasks and ZOI: BH hunt the bounties throughout Sirius, BH Guard fight the war in the Omicrons, Sigmas and Omegas. Simpler than medieval plumbing.

Oh, one final point. Athenian is a righteous dude.