Do the Junkers still have immunity from random BH attacks?

[Tenacity]

so you might rather wanne compare it to omicron-delta and the zoners. - and there, you see that the zoners only "govern" 5k around their station - and the rest is not their business.

you're right, this is more accurate. The Junkers in O15 only 'claim' the small southern portion of the system, primarily the scrap field around bornholme. As long as nobody causes trouble there, we dont have a reason to bother anyone else in the system - but we will enforce neutrality around bornholme and destroy anyone who breaches that nuetrality. In essence, it's all about the security of the station and the junkers collecting salvage there - hostile vessels coming in and starting a firefight pose a severe threat to the station itself, and that cannot be tolerated. It's no different than zoners enforcing the same nuetrality law in a small area around each of their stations.

Seems every 2nd junker my LPI meets is either attacking me, or badmouthing the lawfuls.

Any junker attacking a lawful in open sight is just asking to get killed or imprisoned. A real junker knows that criminal business is always best conducted in dark places - if I'm going to try and kill a cop or naval pilot, I'll get them to follow me into the badlands, or into the dark matter cloud of the pittsburgh debris field - both are areas where, in-RP, communications and sensors dont function properly. In that environment, I can kill any lawful and get away 'scott-free' - because nobody would know I was the one who did the killing.

As for "badmouthing lawfuls" - this is ok within limitations. Free speech is still (from what I can tell) allowed within liberty. Now, if you're directly harassing players and not in-character, then it's a breach of server rules and you get sanctioned. However, if you're in-character and just ranting about how liberty is corrupt and falling apart, there's really nothing the lawfuls can do about it unless, as in the above example, they take you in "quietly" and deal with you behind-the-scenes. Attacking a ranting lunatic in public is bad relations, and will put a lot of heat on liberty officials from the press and such.

Not to mention all the smuggling they always get caught doing...( they speed dock..)

Really now, this is just bad practice. Whenever I smuggled cardamine, i took it directly to rochester or beaumont. I only went to manhattan the first couple of times I ran the stuff, and learned very quickly that it was bad Rp to do so.

Even then, the first time I ran cardi to manhattan, I put up an elaborate distraction in system chat - faking a distress call coming from the debris field around pittsburgh, which drew off the navy and police sitting at manhattan and gave me an opening to dock.

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