Horizons Inhabited Lifepods (Stolen!) Question?.

[Saltyseadog]

I am on the way back to my homebase from a long distance exploration trek. I have picked up quite a bit of cargo from crash sites etc including 20 inhabited lifepods. A few weeks back on the way out I came across some barrels of stolen cargo but left it thinking that it would more than likely cause me problems on my return to the bubble. However today I found another wreck with 6 inhabited lifepods in the wreckage. When I got back to unload them at the ship I saw they were marked as stolen with an exclamation mark besides. I loaded them all up as unlike the stolen cargo I did not want to leave "living" people behind, (I know, it's just a game etc, etc but I am 2000+LY from the bubble and that's just the way I am. Does anyone know the consequences of taking them back, eg do I get into trouble with the authorities etc and/or is it possible these are wanted criminals with a bounty of sorts on their heads?. Appreciate any replies to the matter of inhabited lifepods or any other aspect of materials, cargo etc collected from crash sites.

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[d8veh]

You'll get fined if you get scanned while they're in your hold. Smuggling is dead easy now. just fly into the station a bit faster than normal to avoid the scan.

 

[colprice2002]

Did you rescue from a planet crash site?

All the escape pods I've rescued from the surface (and cannisters) have been marked as legal salvage - those from space wreckage are always "illegal" (dating back to the original Elite where rescued escape pods became "slaves").

If you picked them from the surface, then I'd suggest a bug report is in order.

It seems harsh, but I think you have to let space debris and escape pods crash to the surface before rescue/salvage.

 

[Saltyseadog]

Did you rescue from a planet crash site?

All the escape pods I've rescued from the surface (and cannisters) have been marked as legal salvage - those from space wreckage are always "illegal" (dating back to the original Elite where rescued escape pods became "slaves").

If you picked them from the surface, then I'd suggest a bug report is in order.

It seems harsh, but I think you have to let space debris and escape pods crash to the surface before rescue/salvage.

No, not picked up in space but from the surface of an icy moon/planet of a gas giant I was prospecting. Twice previously on surface excursions I have found stolen/illegal cargo cannisters which I left but this is the first time with lifepods. I will take up your suggestion on opening a bug report and see what happens, thanks for the reply.