You sound like a lawyer, arris. Personally, I hate lawyers. If you'd like a formal review of your charge, then here it is:
Part 5, Section C, Paragraph 3
Quote:Unlicensed Possession or Dealing of Alien Artifacts, Synthetic marijuana, Cardamine and/or Counterfeit software; Defined as the unlicensed possession or dealing of illegal goods. Most commonly applied to those who possess or trade Contraband without a special collectors or license.
Penalty
Quote:Penalty for dealing of less than 2500 tons is 2,000,000 credits, penalty for dealing of more than 2500 tons is 4,000,000 credits.
My statement regarding Nomad Licensing, is in fact far outdated
Ok, I'm not nearly as patient as Lt. Commander Darkmoor here, so I'll make this short and sweet:
Liberty is not longer selling Nomad licences for the time being
If it is urgent, and I mean vitally urgent that you obtain a Nomad licence, contact me over private comms. I will process your request and put it through the proper channels to be approved. I have enough paperwork as it is, any unnecessary requests will simply be discarded and if my private comms system is used improperly, this offer will be revoked immediately.
Lt. Commander Jack Malrone
--Message End--
**Connection Terminated**
Due to a number of reasons, the Navy is no longer issuing Nomad licenses under any circumstances.
Quote:****INCOMMING TRANSMISSION****
COMM ID: V.A. David Hale.
SUBJECT: Nomad Licences.
PRIORITY: High.
Hale here.
We no longer issue nomad licences, but we do allow those already licenced to carry on using their nomad equipment.
I hope this clears all confusion.
Hale out.
****TRANSMISSION TERMINATED****
Apologies for the confusion regarding the license, I just received the above communique from High Command this morning.
>Cardamine Smuggling Charge.
As for the Cardamine charge, your reason for not dropping the Cardamine seems very flimsy:
Quote:I were at no single point in time ordered to drop my cargo by LNS-Victorious, so I deemed the cardamine shipment an allowed exception, which would be understandable during your highly illogical "security" ventures of neglecting other vessels and destroying others on a whim.
Anybody who is smuggling Cardamine is expected to cut their engines and drop all of the illicit substance when caught.
I'm guessing you were disrupted in cruise by the Navy Commander in question, correct? If you continued to power up cruise engines after being disrupted, the Commander would've had a hard time relaying a message to your ship; as comms systems usually malfunction when continually using the ship's Cruise Disruptor.
If you don't want this to occur again, don't smuggle. Its as simple as that.