(10-28-2024, 10:21 PM)Barrier Wrote: @Petitioner I get what you're saying, but I'd think anyone driving an APC to work would raise some massive news-worthy eyebrows. In any case, my overall point still stands: if the Bulwark shouldn't be restricted, then no Cruiser should be either.
As @Lord Caedus said, it wouldn't really raise any eyebrows if the driver was at risk of getting carjacked, having their work supplies or valuable cargo stolen, getting murdered on live TV for propagandistic purposes, and having their life insurance policies voided due to some quirk of their corporate contract (all of which applies to any corporate employee who operates in space infested by groups like, to use your own example, the Unioners). In fact it's pretty normal under those circumstances (see the "Commercial Demand" section of this article). Police state or no, Rheinland, like every other house, has a major problem with not only piracy but domestic and international terrorism, and as such the use of almost-military-grade vehicles like frigates, the Longhorn, and the Bulwark is indisputably completely appropriate for civilian actors when civilian actors IRL in similar conditions use actually-military-grade vehicles for the same purpose.
Once again, if you disagree, tell [RM] to log and start patrolling the lanes. Otherwise, you (here meaning Rheingov) are effectively just indiscriminately griefing traders and should be treated like a griefer (ie, told to not do that by the staff team).