Starports

But first a thankyou to those wonderful people in netland who provided
their versions of combat mods etc

Starports

Who owns them on a planet ????? I read somwhere that the starport
was imperial territory on planets . What do people think ?????

My version is like this .

All starport territory (the land) is owned by the imperial government .
It in turn leases this land out to various coorporations who set up
the starport (for a nominal fee) . Thus in theory the starport is imperial
territory . The security in a starport would be imperial marines I guess
.. Thus somebody could enter a starport and be in an 'exclusion' zone . Of
course there would be extradition (but with a 'undemocratic' government
benign buearacrats could put alot of red tape in the way) .

The problem with this view is that the planets government might be
a tad resentful that their planets starport is run like this .

The situation is a bit like Shanghi in China before the outbreak
of the second world war . The port was run jointly by france, england
and I think america . Most of the city was chinease but the port area
was run by the govts who had troops stationed at the 'border' with
checkpoints and the like . People had to have the neccessary papers
to cross between the areas . When the japanese invaded, these
govts still controlled the exclusion zone.

I would really like to know others views and comments on this
(cause I am going to use em in the next adventure) .

What do you think

Edmund

(er ........yeah........and........well.......michael)

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