Piracy outside a Zoner base

[**BUDDY**]

... unless you were pirating a Zoner right in front of inactive base defenses of course. If you're going to be hostile to the Zoners, be hostile to the Zoners. Sitting outside a base, hitting the faction that base belongs to -is- a violation... most likely sanction would be that the admins apply the FR5 without the Zoners requesting it (because shooting a Zoner in front of a Zoner base... is kinda a no brainer that the Zoners wouldn't like that. 'Xept maybe the Discordians. They're weird. And the ZA. If they still exist. They're weird too. In an aggressive way. But I digress. Much like a Discordian. Anyone got an apple?)

I enjoyed reading this post, mostly the last half of it.

+1 Here

[Thargoid]

... unless you were pirating a Zoner right in front of inactive base defenses of course. If you're going to be hostile to the Zoners, be hostile to the Zoners. Sitting outside a base, hitting the faction that base belongs to -is- a violation... most likely sanction would be that the admins apply the FR5 without the Zoners requesting it (because shooting a Zoner in front of a Zoner base... is kinda a no brainer that the Zoners wouldn't like that. 'Xept maybe the Discordians. They're weird. And the ZA. If they still exist. They're weird too. In an aggressive way. But I digress. Much like a Discordian. Anyone got an apple?)

But yea, pirating in front of the freeports... it could have nasty consequences if it becomes commonplace. Such as the house government responsible for securing that lane saying "enough's enough. Dispatching gunboats to make sure pirates don't come there anymore." And that would mean smuggling to and from that Freeport would be a lot harder. Unlawfuls have a vested interest in keeping the peace around the freeports - that's how those ports remain "free".

It was GMG, and I wasn't camping the base, merely passing though in a Cruiser, it has enough fire power to order a trader to stop, and could kill it before it moves to the insta-dock point.

It was a moment of opportunity a pirate would never pass up, I would never sit outside a Zoner base waiting for targets in a Cruise, that would be ridiculous.

If there was a Zoner outside the base when the GMG was there, I wouldn't have bothered.

[Cælumaresh]

your character, inRP, broke a Galactic Law, that's not a big deal.

You know how funny that sounds?

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[SnakThree]

It was a moment of opportunity a pirate would never pass up, I would never sit outside a Zoner base waiting for targets in a Cruise, that would be ridiculous.

A pirate would not be using Cruiser in the first place... So your argument is invalid.

Player, yes, might not pass such opportunity, because we have no gameplay-mechanics for a station to defend passing transports based on their own laws in that moment.

Also, I explained that trader how he was wrong and this situation is a thing of the past.

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[Thargoid]

Oh, you were there too?

Still don't see anything wrong with a Cruiser taking an opportunity to pirate a trading vessel whilst pass through and spotting it randomly, camping somewhere in a cruiser doesn't make a lot of sense in RP, but this does (to me at least).

I believe (can't remember fully) that this guy was carrying ore of some description, so his cargo could have been worth 20-50 million, are you saying it doesn't make sense for a crew piloting a cruiser to take a few minutes to issue a demand for 10+ million and then kill him if he doesn't comply?