I would imagine that most significant starports on developed worlds (say, starport C+, pop 6+) will have two formal processes at the extrality line, the "outer" one run by the locals, the "inner" one by the Imperium. So e.g. on entering the starport, you'd first pass through a local check to make sure you're not e.g. smuggling local antiquities off-world, not wanted for a local crime, and so forth. Then you'd pass through an Imperial checkpoint to see if you're wanted for Imperial crimes, carrying materials prohibited in the port area, and so on. And there'd be a similar process leaving the port.

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

> On Jul 31, 2017, at 12:57 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
>
> And there's also the possibility that a regime change has occurred & the 'new guys' want to inspect ships entering & leaving the extrality zone downport that the ImpGov controls.
> And, maybe even the hiport traffic too.

"New guys" as in Planetary rulers or "new guys" as in New Emperor?

If planetary rulers, the answer from Starport Authority should be “What part of the word ‘extrality’ don’t you people understand?” then tell them to go pound sand.

Of course a wealthy/busy enough world doesn’t HAVE to rely on the Imperial Starport for traffic…systems are entirely free to operate their own as they see fit, but putting more burdens on incoming traffic will push more people to the Imperial port, or start agitating with the Impies to establish one.

All of this is entirely flexible, if the local planetary rulers have pull with/actually are the local Imperial nobles then SA and IN may well ‘cooperate’ on ‘joint anti-smuggling’ operations ‘consistent with maintaining order and free flow of merchant traffic’.

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