Here's an idea that may enjoy. How about establishing a company, let's call it the ''Interplanetary Postal Service'' (IPS) for the sake of argument. Its purpose is to delivery items, which cannot be sent sub-space to stations and outposts throughout the galaxy. The IPS would for a price take small parcels and personal communications (encoded onto secured media) which cannot be entrusted to the normal comm channels with them from system to system, and deliver them to sorting depots where commanders and other space farers can arrange for collection.
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The game mechanic element of the IPS is that couriers in addition to carrying the usual items from place to place can be hired by players to deliver parcels. Now, sooner or later somebody will open fire on an IPS vessel, that is a given so why don't we make it a WANTED status offense to do so. Perhaps it could be called "interfering with the mail" or "impeding the delivery of communications" but the same result is the outcome. IPS pilots are highly rated professionals and sworn to protect and to deliver the mail no matter what so attacking them is a hazardous task at best. However, if you do manage to destroy one in straight combat and vessel will explode resulting in the release of mail. What this mail holds is open to debate, but any number of delicious possibilities exists!
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If on the other hand a commander out scouting a system comes across a weak signal trace and closing with it discovers the twisted hull of a former IPS vessel they can pick up the mail and take it to the nearest station or outpost to have it re-delivered. The act of collecting the mail (without destroying the host vessel) would be seen as a reward situation and not earn the player an immediate WANTED status for holding goods which are not rightfully their own.
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So, what do you think?
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The attached sketch is of a logo proposition, although I did toy with the idea of an emblazoned star intersecting the envelope or a parcel box.
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The game mechanic element of the IPS is that couriers in addition to carrying the usual items from place to place can be hired by players to deliver parcels. Now, sooner or later somebody will open fire on an IPS vessel, that is a given so why don't we make it a WANTED status offense to do so. Perhaps it could be called "interfering with the mail" or "impeding the delivery of communications" but the same result is the outcome. IPS pilots are highly rated professionals and sworn to protect and to deliver the mail no matter what so attacking them is a hazardous task at best. However, if you do manage to destroy one in straight combat and vessel will explode resulting in the release of mail. What this mail holds is open to debate, but any number of delicious possibilities exists!
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If on the other hand a commander out scouting a system comes across a weak signal trace and closing with it discovers the twisted hull of a former IPS vessel they can pick up the mail and take it to the nearest station or outpost to have it re-delivered. The act of collecting the mail (without destroying the host vessel) would be seen as a reward situation and not earn the player an immediate WANTED status for holding goods which are not rightfully their own.
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So, what do you think?
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The attached sketch is of a logo proposition, although I did toy with the idea of an emblazoned star intersecting the envelope or a parcel box.
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