> >From: "Mark F. Cook" [email removed]
>
> Assuming that they make it to a safer haven (read, different system), and
> assuming that the original captain and crew met with unsavory ends back
> on the embattled planet (as Ref, I can safely make this assumption :-)),
> is there a legal way for the PCs to permanently acquire the ship?
Hardly, They could claim that they found it, though, but it will be hard to
legally clear them of the suspicions that *they* killed the crew in the
general confusion.
A starship is almost never unowned, If it isn't owned by a person, it is owned
by a corporation, or an Imperial Agency (IMC, IN, IISS etc), or by the system
govenment, or by an insurance company, or by the heirs of the previous owner
(this last case is the one that is most apliccable in your case)
If they want to keep the ship, they would have to act as if it was stolen, ie
get it registerd under a new name, fix all id'numbers, and, most difficult,
fix the transponder...
> So, compare this to a group of people fleeing the Nazis in WWII by stealing
> a boat on the French coast and making it to England. Do the english arrest
> them for boat-napping, or do they say, "Right, it's your boat from now on,
> an' don' let anybody tell you otherwise!"
If they steal somebodys cargoship, that somebody (or his company, or his bank,
or his creditors, or his family) is going to be mightily cross with them.
If they steal a german military (or ex-french military) boat then the English
government would take the boat from them and give it to the RN.
Just my quarter credits worth.
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