Imperial Crackdown
Players getting a little too powerful? No Problem!
Here's a speedy answer to your all-too-omnipotent players. Throw this document
into the mix in any of your sessions. I have used this and pulled it off
with spectacular results. Your players will be pressed into figuring out
new and interesting ways to get their stuff done with this to deal with.
You can introduce it to rebels by having a commanding officer brief them
on it, or have a customs official who is pulling those mercs, hunters and
otherwise over for a check aprise them of the new situation!! Easy as pie.
But, you have to play out all the stipulations in this document to make
it realistic and credible. But hey, you're the GM!! You know what to do!!
Have at it...
From: Imperial Sector Authority
To: All Sector Moffs & Commands, Outer Rim
Subject: Reassertion of Authority
Confirmed: SEND; TRAN221/309; RECV
Context: E27; AMAN; DSYS; RMAN
Phasecycle: Not Required/General Delivery
Sectors must now abide by the following sections provided below. Sectors
not meeting requirements in this document are subject to judicial processes
and ISA committee action. The following elements are described in preliminary
detail including expectations. Sectors are permitted to interpret these
guidelines as they see fit, but expectations MUST be attained.
- Seizure & Audit of Cash Flows
- All citizens possessing cash in amounts exceeding 100,000 credits are to
have said cash seized and audited. Citizens may only keep amounts which
are proven by them to have been earned through proper and legitimate employ.
Cash not accounted for as required will be confiscated and consumed by
the Sector in question.
- Travel Taxes on Transit
- Citizens travelling outside of systems only ONCE per every 30 days will
be charged a Transit Tax of 500 credits before they are allowed to disembark.
Those refusing or inable to pay must return to their point of origin or
face impound. A tax of 800 credits must also be levvied upon those crossing
sector borders and those entering "sensitive" systems.
- Transit Card
- Each citizen must carry a Transit Card when travelling anywhere outside
their present system. Analysis of their job and personal requirements to
travel will be performed, then they will recieve an allotment of days they
can travel within a 30 day period. This amount of days cannot be exceeded,
nor disputed for any reason. Should a citizen run out of their allotment
of days in any 30 day period, they are to remain at that location and will
only be permitted to travel once a new 30 day period begins. Additionaly,
citizens who travel in their own privately owned vessels must submit to
a hyperdrive examination to verify their reported ability is accurate.
- Business Travel Waivers
- All citizens which are employed in a job where travel is necessary and
required, they are to be issued a business waiver. To recieve this waiver,
the citizen must provide viable proof of employment, a written letter of
reference from said employer, their permanent address and the address of
their business and submit to a full review of criminal and BoSS records.
Once they recieve the waiver, they will be permitted to travel on a pre-determined
allotment of days in a 30 day period and their employer, NOT THE CITIZEN
THEMSELVES, must send a letter of day requests to the local Customs Office
by the beginning of every 30 day period for that particular period. Failure
to do so will disallow the citizen to travel, and no complaints are to
be entertained. This includes all privately owned freighters, their captains
and crews.
- Weapons Permit Enforcement
- From this point on, a thorough inspection and scanning of a freighter requesting
dock access will be performed on a random basis. Customs Agents are to
locate, confiscate, and destroy all contraband discovered or suspected.
Fines and Imprisonment will be fully enforced upon all crew of a particular
ship should any type of contraband be discovered. Warnings are not to be
given any longer.
- Infiltration of Black Markets
- Local law enforcement will now be required to prepare and implement some
type of system of infiltrating black market rings in their locale. Criminal
transactions concerning weapons, explosives, and other objects of detriment
to the Empire will be punishable by execution without judicial process.
Sector Commands are to instruct all Customs Offices and other related bureaus
to enact verification of every aspect of above items and are required to
keep a record in triplicate of all verifications. The first copy must be
retained by the Customs Office or related bureau for their files. The second
copy must be delivered to the Sector Command HQ Database. The third copy
is to be sent to Sector Command for transfer to Imperial Sector Authority
Database. A random check of records and how they coincide with their related
copies elsewhere will be conducted. Equally, departments which are to participate
in any aspect of verification on any aspect of above items will be subjected
to random review by a Sector Command committee of analysis. Sector Commands
are expected to have a system for this in place as soon as possible, and
proof of such system must be reported to the Imperial Sector Authority.
END
Note: If you use this, let me know how this goes in your session. I would love
to hear how you changed it and how it worked out. If you want to place
this on a website of your own, please let me know and I only ask that you
give credit. Enjoy!!
This is an original work by Tim Salam