Smugglers and Mooring Rings

[ScornStar]

Well, I think the planetary surface thing is fine and dandy, but everyone here seems to be forgetting the mooring fixtures exist because the large transports can't land due to physical complications, like not being able to escape the planet's gravity. Due to this, they have to moor outside the planet's atmosphere, and use a Heavy Lifter to unload their individual cargo pods in space and transfer them to other, smaller ships in order to move the goods to the surface of the planet.

Now, then, why would the police allow for that situation to happen when they clearly know that the ship insert ship's designation here is a smuggler? Furthermore, even if a smuggler is in a smaller ship, what is keeping an officer of the law from locking down the entire landing pad, knowing that insert ship's designation here has a cargo comprised almost completely of class 1 narcotics? Or Artifacts that have been "Proven" to be dangerous to Human life?

I just don't see it...

Also, the Liberty Officials do leave Manhattan's Orbit. I see them quite often in California and Texas...

EDIT: And that all means I'm all for this improvement.

I disagree for a few points.

One I bet there is more than one landing pad. After all we have more than one air strip in every nation now. I would think on a planetary level there would be more. Exspecially since a Starflier is cheaper than a car.

I can see my heavy Tanker land on the pads and my Zoner Juggernaught when I had one. I also see they dont ever touch the ground and instead "sit" on a Grav cushion.

I believe these large ships can land on the surface. After all it seems to me that the people of Surius have mastered artifical gravity and thus gravity manipulation.

As further evidence of this I say look at all the ships. Reguardless of size, and thruster quantity they all move the same speed.

It seems they use contra grav drives and the "thrusters" are meerly engine exhaust for the reactors.

Additionally when a ship has killed it's engine it is able to drift, yet while the engine is on you cannot drift and always come to a halt. So this seems to indicate that while the engine is on we have inertial dampeners.
Sort of a gravity nulifier.

CDs seem to stop drifting as it forces a hard reboot of the engines, thus disableing the criuse engines as well. ENgines being rebooted means grav field gets re established.

I also think of the smuggler ID as a hack. Something that "lies" or scrambles a docking rings IFF reader. After all we would not find truckers with smugglers IDs in thier wallets on the boarder of any nation. So, in RP Smugglers should be treated as neutral by all untill they do something unlawful and even then they compuerter may be fooled.

As for catching smugglers patrol your boarders. America has boarder patrol on the boarder not in Los Angeles.

Disruptable moors and rings? Cool but there have been some good questions brought up. I dont have the answer for them, cept report OOC landings. Smugglers should be able to land anywhere, (and look like anyone). Thats what they do.

Disruptable jump holes, YES! YES! YES! YES! and stations.

But I think fixed stations and docking rings should have more powerful guns on them. Like the battleships are deadly to hang around for too long even in a gunboat.

Now I got to keep reading I did not past the post I responded too.

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