Hey Zapp, remember the good ol' days when Hack would get in a total rage when someone tried to dictate LPI rp? He would dedicate his entire evening to posting rage threads against whatever poor soul foolishly tried to say something negative about his precious faction.
I remember the slave issue being particularly upsetting to him.
' Wrote:but the entire prison staff being corrupt. Which isn't happening.
I'm afraid it is happening. LPI is corporate, which means that they're a corporation, which means they're a business, which means that, well, I ran out of synonyms, but basically they're more worried about profit rather than moral ideology. I suggest you talk to LPI in bars, they will tell you all about how "I kind of feel bad finding out a reason to arrest some hermit on his hill because some rich person wants that land, but hey, Sugarland needs its workers". It's really scary how the LPI works, and I urge you to figure it out through rumours. If you haven't heard them, plenty of civilians complain about how "their only real security is the LPI and Bounty Hunters, so they're usually paid off with bribes".
But lets back up, we're talkin' about the WHOLE prison system here! I don't think Sugarland is exactly promoting/encouraging the selling of slaves, but perhaps it's a 'wink wink, nudge nudge' move where the more violent or less useful slaves that are more trouble than they're worth just happen to disappear for a bargain price. Crisp, crisp profit.
The Slaves are PoWs meant for export to GMG for the Planet Miura where they mine the Uranium that gets refined into weapons grade plutonium and shipped back for the war. Look it up. I too didn't enjoy the use of slaves commodity but it's what Xoria had to work with, and ultimately it is slave work they are doing on Miura. We like to call it indentured servitude to make it sound clean. No we do not haul out 5k slaves worth on regular basis, but I have done it oer 20 times in broad open in front of lawfuls and have talked my way through it each time. I woulda thought this was known by now.
It's super-ultra-mega important to note that just because a commodity is 'on the list' at a base does not mean any random person can actually walk in and get the stuff (unlike in vanilla). Unfortunately, game mechanics cannot reflect this at the moment.
Sorry to say but pretty much anything involving GMG is grey. It's an epicly fine line form of RP. Almost every aspect of GMG is shady stuff while maintaining the air of lawfullness. While holding an unyeilding monopolistic grasp of the fuel source of Sirius GMG also fully funds and trains terrorist revolutionaries, practices slavery and were formerly partners with Corsairs in the Artifact smuggling business before GMG got cut out. A great fair chunk of this is in the shadows and unknown, but no doubts hints and clues appear here and there as well as occasional shows of unusual aggressive behavior. Until a house succeeds in an invasion the houses have to suffer with the GMG and on the flip side GMG has to keep most in the shadows lest it attract the ire of more then one house at the same time.
See Section One, topic I. Contraband Possession.
It's super-ultra-mega important to note that just because a commodity is 'on the list' at a base does not mean any random person can actually walk in and get the stuff (unlike in vanilla). Unfortunately, game mechanics cannot reflect this at the moment.
So you're saying that random freelancers who go into sugarland, and pick up a 5ker of slaves are metagaming?
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' Wrote:So you're saying that random freelancers who go into sugarland, and pick up a 5ker of slaves are metagaming?
No. They might be paying off certain prison guards. Those who don't pretend to do so aren't RPing, really.
Use your imagination.
Then, you get stopped by a Navy patrol at the border. What do you do? Don't ask me, you're the guy with slaves in the hold. You'll need some quick talking to get around that one.
Note that what I linked to was the law. How it is enforced is up the officers on the scene.
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