bounty hunter limits

[carlabrams]

Okay, first let's look at the two ID's for Bounty Hunters.

Bounty Hunter ID

Pilot carrying this ID is a member of the Bounty Hunters Guild, who:
* Can fulfill lawful bounty contracts
* Can trade and escort traders
* Can hunt pirates and terrorists across Sirius
* Can demand cargo or credits from ships carrying contraband and destroy them if they refuse to comply
* Cannot ally with any unlawfuls
* Cannot participate in any unlawful actions
* Cannot use any Liner except the Prison Liner

Bounty Hunters Guild Core ID (This is effectively the BHG Guard ID)

Pilot carrying this ID is a member of the Bounty Hunter Guild Core, who:
* Is in a state of war with The Order and Nomads, and may engage Order or Nomad affiliated individuals without a bounty.
* Can engage and destroy any ship produced by The Order without a bounty, even if the faction affiliation of the pilot is not Order.
* Can engage and destroy any pilot actively assisting another Order pilot or Nomad.
* Cruisers and Battleships can only operate within the Omicron, Omega and Sigma systems but fighters, bombers, freighters, prison liners or gunboats may operate anywhere in Sirius that the Bounty Hunter ID permits.
* Can only fulfill bounty contracts against fighters or gunboats by using a fighter, bomber, freighter, or gunboat, unless the target is in a capital ship, then the same class of capital ship may be used to collect the bounty, but Core cruisers and battleships can only collect bounties within the Omicron, Omega, or Sigma systems.
* Can demand allied pilots, Nomad technology and Nomad specimens from other ships and destroy ships if they refuse to hand them over. Cannot demand credits or other cargo from anyone.
* Cannot ally with any unlawfuls
* Cannot participate in any unlawful action
* Cannot use any Liner except the Prison Liner

So, while a Bounty Hunter pilot can demand contraband... the interpretation of contraband by the Guild has always been slaves, cardi, synth, and artifacts, as per ALL of the normal house governments.

Now - at this point in time, there are no contracts or bounties beyond the original BAF bounty on KNF ships and traders in Bretonian space (which we've really not been too keen on taking, anyway). So, as for the official BHG faction is concerned, we are NOT taking sides in the war. We have enough issues with pirates and unlawfuls.

So - in a nutshell, all OFFICALLY tagged BHG| and BHG|Core ships are not going to be enforcing any embargo. (And if they are, then they shouldn't be, so please tell us.) Any independant bounty hunters, if they are enforcing the embargo, are NOT fulfilling any legitimate contract that we in the guild are aware of, and the names of these hunters should be forwarded to the Guildmasters for ... discussion.

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