Quote: if you've even read any of my post is that I'd have RP'ed it as a broken down peice of junk he put together from scrap and spare parts that reads out as a Luxury Liner to the Sirrian database.
Read the entire topic before you come to bash RP please.
Personally I viewed the prison liner as a more fitting refugee transporter, sure you can't powertrade with it so much. And the slave liner fits with this roleplay even more so.
The luxury liner wasn't allowed before, it isn't allowed now, fair play.
The Pirate train and Slave Liner should be allowed however
' Wrote:Dishevelled Refugee Smuggler... in a LUXURY Liner...?
This sense RP makes no.
Smugglers often use the illusion of wealth to conceal their unlawful activities. In real life, a supermodel (who was extremely wealthy) was recently arrested for smuggling drugs for the Colombian cartels.
Junkers are a wealthy faction. They have the resources to field Luxury Liners if they want. Besides, the Shire is not restricted technology, it's not like it would be difficult to simply buy these ships. The Shire is built by Borderworlds Exports, a company which has a reputation for laissez faire politics and is known for selling ships like the Sabre to anyone with credits.
My opinion is that Junkers have plenty of justification to use these ships. Not every smuggler is going to travel the universe in a pirate train, and it's ignorant to think that they should. Let's not also forget that we're talking about Junkers; a faction that maintains one of the largest underground networks in Sirius and commands a vast empire of wealth. They're easily capable of simply buying these Transports - Transports are not military technology, they are civilian corporate technology in most cases as such they are or should be usable by anyone.
Junkers aren't pirates and they aren't slavers, the majority of their business revolves around legitimate labor and as such it makes more sense for them to fly a Shire than to fly a Slave Liner or a Pirate Train.
The Luxury Liner however should be rare, as they're not practical for operating in the environments that Junkers would probably live in.