It has recently hit me that LPI does NOT have a rescue and relief division yet. Around last week, the ship the Heart Of Zion was stuck near the badlands, even though we found the ship, we had to cal in the Navy for back up since the ship's engines were completely were damaged and the Liberator's we are flying aren't strong enough to tow entire transports to safety.
Furthermore, a ship by the name OSI-Chrome, its computers were apparently hacked and tampered with, and found itself in the deepest corner of the northern-most asteroid field, far from help, with an extremely damaged hull, no Nanobots/Shield Batteries available, sine they had to use them all up in order to survive.. Nearby officers weren't able to do anything since it was out of our jurisdiction, and since we wouldn't be able to tow it away anyways.
My proposal is that we create a new unit which would used primarily for emergencies like this, where ships send out distress calls. It will only be used if the ship in danger has lost its engines.
1. One or two Repair Ships should be bought for this purpose.
2. Two to three specially trained escorts so that the repair ship and the ship being towed can be escort safely.
3. They would need authorization to go into the Badlands and/or other asteroid fields by a Captain or an above rank to enter deep within those area's.
4. Anywhere else (such as near the sun), they should have the authorization to go to in order to rescue a ship.
This unit will be fairly small, since problems like these usually show up once in a while. But these rescue's are nonetheless necessary.
