Why oh why are pirate cargo illegal salvage? Please make them legal! Maybe in their possession it's illegal, but after you dispatch some pirates, it would be nice for us to be able to return the loot to their rightful owners. For a fee of course! And items like tritium should be free for all.
pirate cargo should be legal salvage
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AFAIK, there's no problem in feeding stolen tritium to a carrier.
Nothing stops you from picking it up and selling it at a black market. Just takes a clever mind to figure it out.
Homo homini pirate.
Because smuggling is more fun than trading.
Yes, of course. This is how the law works. Crime + crime cancels out crime.
its a criminal offence other wise what are nations protecting shipping sell to a black market thats what its for,
This relates a little to some ideas I had regarding bounty-hunting; the notion of a faction certifying a Commander for that type of operation within their systems. My thought was the idea of an approved bounty-hunter who is allowed to collect some amount of foreign bounty from an otherwise-Clean vessel if a Kill Warrant scan is performed and the ruling faction trusts the Commander well enough, and I think that exactly the same idea applies also to stolen cargo.
Once one earns a specific stolen-items-reclamation certificate with a faction, one is then trusted to be handling them responsibly, and either not scanned or scanned without consequence. Frontier added some new cargo-tracking for war salvage, and I am quite sure that the same idea could be used to keep a measure of whether the Commander's certificate is being used actually to recover stolen items, or nefariously to smuggle goods from elsewhere, perhaps leading to a suspension.
It's one thing to tell that the chain of legitimate custody was broken at some point and quite another to reassert that legitimacy without returning that cargo to the party that last had legal claim to it. If cargo can be reflagged in this manner, then just plain stolen cargo would also be getting reflagged.
Only when the state says so.
Only when the state says so.