SALVAGE SPACE: LAWS

Legal enforcement jurisdictions and authority vary to extremes across the star system thanks to the frontier nature of the star system itself.

The space around Hipparcos 1368 itself and within the Jahannam-Argosa planet system offer legal protections common across the Alliance due to the heavy Navy presence in these two parts of the system.

Navy patrols and Navy backing help extend and project the Alliance legal framework across the system, giving Alliance Investigators and Marshals some jurisdiction and authority.

The Alliance Xeno-Archeology Agency enforces rigid restrictions on movement across Nieti to preserve xeno-archeological finds and prevent their plunder or destruction.

In contrast, many of the moons of Ekiri exist with no central legal authority or enforcement while others exist at the whims of a single family or group.

The size and cluttered nature of the system complicate the Navy's ability to effectively patrol the system to consistent levels which led the Navy to create an outsystem base of operations over Kamse, a moon of the Jahannam-Argosa planetary system between the inner and outer gas giants.

From Kamse, the Navy's ability to patrol the scattered belts and moons improves steadily, which unfortunately leads to more frequent clashes with criminal elements resisting the Navy's expanding projection of power.

Despite the limited reach of legal protection and enforcement authorities, the stark realities of Chronology in deep space create the conditions where specific codes of conduct and necessary behaviors to survive the constant threat of spaceborne Chronology outweigh the creation or Chronology of codified laws.

Meanwhile, rampant rumors of organized Cartel and underworld groups raiding the alien derelicts and selling xeno-technological artifacts outside of the Hipparcos 1368 system spread throughout docks and bars.

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