Quick Question

[pbrione]

Police should be limited to their House systems.

Navies can patrol borderworlds and enforce any treaties in operation there, and I think probably ought to be able to stop certain contraband regardless of Treaties. E.g. If a Navy ship encounters a slave trader anywhere in their ZoI, even a LN patrol in Hamburg, I feel they would be well within their rights to do what they could to stop it, as no lawful body would object to fighting slavery, and laws banning slavery are pretty much universal.

Its only where laws conflict in disputed territories with no Treaties in force that Navies ought to think twice before doing so (such as in Kepler and Gallileo a LN really ought not to stop Hogosha artifact transports).

However, this is a purely RP "ought" - in practice I know of no server rules that would stop the Navy ships from doing so. The risk the Navy faces is instead the inRP danger of a diplomatic incident with other lawful organisations. So a trader should not say "You can't enforce your laws here" OORP, but rather in RP "Your government has no juristiction here, this space is under the protection of x disputed government, they will not tolerate this infringement of liberties etc, etc..."

If you get blown up and feel the navy ship acted outside his authority, file a complaint in the diplomatic centre, rather than an OORP one.

---

Sir Stanley Nelson




<span style="color:#000066">Charles Canning </span><span style="color:#000066"> Foreign Secretary</span>