I quite like the thought of using multiple commander slots to play with this. Have one slot as an utter stain on humanity, full on slave trader and even selling passengers into slavery at shady systems if possible and another commander as the complete opposite, trolling the Empire, feeing slaves and killing slave traders.
Proposal Discussion -SLAVES in ED universe-
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I know traders at Eranin Nav Beacon drop them, not sure where else they are available, if anywhere.
Maybe Empire is secretly shipping in soldiers to help fight off the Feds trying to squash Eranian Independence movement.
Soldiers in cans, that made me laugh
I'll go check out the nav point, thanks!!
I suppose you could, but I don't think top hats are ideal head gear for piloting a ship in low gravity. Unless it has really good straps I suppose, but model wise as I haven't played the game so I'm not sure on the exact dimensions of the cockpit, would it cause clipping through it or is their ample space?
Hmm, if so, that issue has two obvious solutions, either A) expanded cockpit/ tophat expansion slot for the pit, which is probably a few hours of model redseign that might not look very sleek, probably would have to be one on several vessels. Or B) bent back top hat model/some sort of physics to cause the top hat to be push down depending on the cockpit dimensions, the latter of which is a lot of work too.
I gotta be honest that's a lot of work, might take a well designed case study to convince the devs to implement the freeing of slaves unfortunately.
Here is how I look at it whenever I scoop up some slave canisters, and deliver it to a "Black Market", to "sell"; I am not selling those poor enslaved people trapped in a tin can back to slaveholders, but rather to a Federal Station Black Market- where slaves can be freed by an "underground railroad" fence operation.
So imagine the Black Market at Chango Dock; a shady, illegal district somewhere in that station. Hidden among the drug dens and assault weapon stores, there is a "liberation front" sort of place, where a pilot can deliver severely illegal cargo such as Slaves secretly and out of sight of the strict Federal law and officers. The slave "purchaser" pays the pilot for the slaves- not as a payment of goods, but rather as a reward for freeing them!
Slaves cannot be handled in the direct commodities market, and thus, in full legal view and jurisdiction, a canister of Slaves would be trapped and confiscated, and probably returned to the original "owners" as returned stolen property, per strict and blind stolen property laws and regulations.
So, the liberation front has to be "illegal" and undercover, and may very well be funded and manned by secret agents of the Fed, but nevertheless has to do things secretly to not set off the soulless bureaucracy of trade customs and laws and international alliances and agreements.
So its tricky. The slaves must be delivered to a black market front, cracked open (strictly speaking; looted after being stolen), and the liberated people given false ID's and shuttled off to a world in federal space that is in need of colonist and workers looking for a "new life". The credits that are payed out for smuggling them there (and for paying your delivery reward) may come from special agencies, rich charity organizations (discreetly funded by guilty feeling slaveholders in the Empire that actually have a soul), or Black Ops funds and budgets, that again; has to remain outside of Federal law and eyes (plausible deniability is king here)
So, be the "hero" to those poor slaves you encounter drifting in space. By all means: scoop them up gently, and take them directly to a federal black market (not an anarchy one, no NO!). Get paid the reward for delivering them to their new life, and fly off into the sunset with peace of mind and glowing satisfaction.
(And remember: Denial is just a river in ancient Egypt.)
(And Delusion is a De-illusion, meaning its TRUE!)
[the above two reminders mean you must trust that the slaves are freed, and not just making up a story such as this to simply sleep better after making a hefty profit from it all]
So imagine the Black Market at Chango Dock; a shady, illegal district somewhere in that station. Hidden among the drug dens and assault weapon stores, there is a "liberation front" sort of place, where a pilot can deliver severely illegal cargo such as Slaves secretly and out of sight of the strict Federal law and officers. The slave "purchaser" pays the pilot for the slaves- not as a payment of goods, but rather as a reward for freeing them!
Slaves cannot be handled in the direct commodities market, and thus, in full legal view and jurisdiction, a canister of Slaves would be trapped and confiscated, and probably returned to the original "owners" as returned stolen property, per strict and blind stolen property laws and regulations.
So, the liberation front has to be "illegal" and undercover, and may very well be funded and manned by secret agents of the Fed, but nevertheless has to do things secretly to not set off the soulless bureaucracy of trade customs and laws and international alliances and agreements.
So its tricky. The slaves must be delivered to a black market front, cracked open (strictly speaking; looted after being stolen), and the liberated people given false ID's and shuttled off to a world in federal space that is in need of colonist and workers looking for a "new life". The credits that are payed out for smuggling them there (and for paying your delivery reward) may come from special agencies, rich charity organizations (discreetly funded by guilty feeling slaveholders in the Empire that actually have a soul), or Black Ops funds and budgets, that again; has to remain outside of Federal law and eyes (plausible deniability is king here)
So, be the "hero" to those poor slaves you encounter drifting in space. By all means: scoop them up gently, and take them directly to a federal black market (not an anarchy one, no NO!). Get paid the reward for delivering them to their new life, and fly off into the sunset with peace of mind and glowing satisfaction.
(And remember: Denial is just a river in ancient Egypt.
)(And Delusion is a De-illusion, meaning its TRUE!
)[the above two reminders mean you must trust that the slaves are freed, and not just making up a story such as this to simply sleep better after making a hefty profit from it all
]
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That's interesting, I didn't know they'd gone into so much detail on slavery.
Have your asked them if they want to be freed?
After all, they may see your gift as a being fired
After all, they may see your gift as a being fired
Not implemented yet.
Thank you, I asked the same, I want to set the slaves free and hopefully this does something for my reputation or something.
made me laugh.It would be more humanitarian to drop them into a sun's corona than that
It would be more humanitarian to drop them into a sun's corona than that
Not my property that would be classed as vandalism.
You also have to think about what sort of life they would have if you freed them.
They probably have no ID and no money, so will freeing them leave them with nothing in life and no means to survive?
They probably have no ID and no money, so will freeing them leave them with nothing in life and no means to survive?
Yesterday i told the local authorities that i was not transporting slaves,
but very finely crafted androids, that even are shown as humans on scanners.
Those androids were part of a "workers exchange" in the empires' systems and have adapted the social behaviour of local workers there, because of their excellent skills at mimicking human behaviour.
They have mastered moaning and whining to abnormal extent.
The police officer nodded as he checked my armament and went on to scan a nearby hauler, just to dust him for illegally transporting tobacco...
I thought my excuse was bad, but smuggling tobacco?
Tststs!
but very finely crafted androids, that even are shown as humans on scanners.
Those androids were part of a "workers exchange" in the empires' systems and have adapted the social behaviour of local workers there, because of their excellent skills at mimicking human behaviour.
They have mastered moaning and whining to abnormal extent.
The police officer nodded as he checked my armament and went on to scan a nearby hauler, just to dust him for illegally transporting tobacco...
I thought my excuse was bad, but smuggling tobacco?
Tststs!
Not to mention rust (good quality lube is so expensive!)
And as for mechanical malfunctions... Let's just say "Seizing" (ouch!).
On the other hand...
Back to serious discussion...
Or perhaps there should be an option on station approach to declare the slaves in your hold and your intention to free them?
This would no doubt merit a hastily scrambled and heavily armed escort, but as long as you keep your word, you shouldn't be punished.
Just a thought.
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But what about if these are Imperial slaves. They have freely entered into a contract with their 'owners' and would be most annoyed about some idiot up and 'freeing' them like that. More than that, doing so in a Federation or Alliance system may well create a diplomatic incident.