Getting Arrested

Gregorius · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:27 am Post subject: Getting Arrested

In my campaign, my characters have to reach the Kuat Shipyards.
Being Rebels and all, they have to steal an imperial cargoship to get past customs. Can anyone help me figure out a way to make sure they get arrested in the customs check?

Rerun941 · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:17 am Post subject:

All of their "paperwork" needs to be in order. Pilot/crew licenses, Cargo Manifests, Ship's registration, etc. That all gets checked at a custom's inspection. If any of it looks out of place, a typical customs officer will start asking very hard questions. "Where was their port of call? How long have they been crewmen?" That sort of thing. and they'll hold the ship until the information is verified. If that cargo vessel is reported stolen, they'll be in deep bantha poodoo.
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Sid Sonoma · Cadet Joined: 20 Sep 2010 Posts: 12

It depends on what charge you want them arrested on.

Are they being arrested as rebels? Then maybe the Empire was tipped off on their arrival and stage an ambush on them at customs.

If not as rebels, maybe as smugglers? While waiting to go thru customs a sneaky smuggler might slip something on them to avoid getting caught himself?

Or if all else fails, have npc's start a fight in customs that gets the pcs involved (voluntary or not) and have everyone arrested.

It just depends on why you want them arrested.

Gregorius · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:45 pm Post subject:

I was thinking of having them placed under temporary arrest for falsifying their paperwork.

I have managed to get this working, thanks for the advice.

garhkal · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 5:27 am Post subject:

falsifying paperwork is not a 'short term' incarceration.

Class 4 offense: "possession of controlled substances, injurious traffic violation, operating (business, vehicle, etc) without a license, assault (without a deadly weapon)".
Starting bribe, 600 credits, up to 2000 credits.
Fines start at 350 to 1000 credits, or 6 months in a regular security jail.

Class 3 offense: "attempted bribery, robbery/grand theft, aiding and abetting, assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a concealed weapon".
Starting bribe, 1400 credits, up to 4000 (though assault with a deadly weapon is NOT able to be bribed out of).
Fines: Illegal concealed weapon – 1000 cr or 9 months in a regular security jail.
Attempted bribery – 2000 cr base + bribe amt, or 1 yr in a medium security jail
Robbery/grant theft – 4000 cr base + value of stolen property, or 2 yrs in a medium security jail
Aiding and abetting – 1000 cr AND 3 months in a minimum security jail
Assault with deadly weapon (NO loss of life) – 5000 cr fine and 1 yr in medium security jail OR 3 yrs in jail.

Class 2 offense: murder/manslaughter, fraud/smuggling, assault against a public official, trafficking in controlled substances".
Starting bribe, 3000 credits, up to 7000 credits, except forgeries of BOSS registries or owning/carrying thermal detonators.
Fraud of Pilots license – 4000 credits fine and 1 yr jail in a medium security facility
Manslaughter – no fine, but 4 yrs jail in medium security facility.
Murder – 10 yrs minimum time in a maximum security facility.
Trafficking – 10,000 cr fine, and 2 yrs jail in a medium security facility, OR 5 yrs jail.
Assault on public official – 2 yrs hard labor. NO fine.

Class 1 offense: conspiracy against the government, murder of a public official, sabotage of public utilities"
No bribe possible!!
Forgery of BOSS registry – 25,000 credit fine, loss of ship and 6 years jail time in a maximum security facility (though 2 yrs can get knocked off this if the name of the forger is given).
Murder of public official – 16 yrs base jail time in a maximum security facility, based on importance of official (eg a Moff would be 30 yrs, while a water inspector would be 16 yrs)
Sabotage of public utilities – 15,000 cr fine and 2 yrs jail in a medium security facility.
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Urban Spaceman · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 8:41 am Post subject:

How about a mis-understanding?
The ship is the same make/model as another one which is wanted for some other offence.
Being as the name and transponder code is different, the characters are held whilst the customs officials verify their details.
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garhkal · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:08 pm Post subject:

Doubt that would work since the codes (which is like our license plate/vin number rolled into one) are different that would work.
NOW if someone had a sensor masking.spoofing unit that made them SEEM like the pcs ship, along with used a similar model of ship, that might work.
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Urban Spaceman · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:19 am Post subject:

The codes can be changed though.

They can still be held whilst the customs official verifys that their ship hasn't been 'illegaly tampered' with.
Especially if their ship actually was involved in some incident last time it was there, but was under different ownership at the time. Something the PC's may be entirely unaware of.
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