[TML] Merchant Marine/Merchant Navy in Traveller

[Richard Aiken]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/12/08 8:56 PM, "Richard Aiken" <raikenclw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What happens when Planet Liberia's new Supreme Leader
>> promulgates a retroactive Merchant Navy law and then requires all
>> "his" ships to report in for "national emergency duties?"
>
> Then you quickly zip over to Mauritania and re-register again.  :)
>
> Seriously, if it's that puny of a place, they can't very well track down
> every ship they think should help.  That's kind of the point of getting
> registry there.

You can probably pretty much ignore the directive, but you probably
can't re-register.  Not without something convoluted like selling the
ship to yourself.  If you can re-register a ship so easily, this makes
keeping track of commercial ships a whole lot harder for the Imperium.
 So it would probably frown on this sort of thing.

If IYTU you *can* re-register this easily, that makes piracy and the
like a lot easier.  Of course, then you have to explain why the your
Imperium accepts such blatantly-frivolous registries in the first
place.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein