On 5/17/2019 4:05 AM, Rupert Boleyn
wrote:
How would the
local government react?
How would the system, subsector, or even sector nobles react?
Would their be any Imperial doctrine to handle cases like this?
If it happens in the different system, Imperial doctrine would be
that it's just too bad. OTOH, Imperial doctrine doesn't say that
you can't ban your world's people from leaving, so there's that.
I think that most worlds wouldn't actually *do* anything real about such
services. Those who really believe that the proceedures are wrong
would rant and rave, but as long as the price was high enough that
the great majority of the world's citizens couldn't afford it,
nothing would actually happen. After all, effective controls on
this would stop the elites enjoying the service, and the elites
have never really felt that the rules should apply to them.
My thinking was that the local planetary noble was most likely a
local or had largely "gone native" and wasn't someone from three
sectors over and clueless about the local culture. Same with the
subsector noble...I don't think these people would operate in a void
and if the world carried some importance or influence, things could
get sticky. Not quite saber rattling, but perhaps some sort of
"you're our noble...do SOMETHING!".
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