On 17May2019 1239, Kurt Feltenberger wrote:

> Currently, it is common to travel to another country that offers medical
> procedures that either aren't approved, prohibited, or can't be done due
> to skills/technology limits or to obtain medicine that is likewise
> unavailable in the home country.  Given that a planetary government's
> authority extends to the 100 (or is it just 10?) diameter limit, would
> people travel from a planet that (for sake of discussion, I'm
> simplifying all the reasons into...) doesn't offer the drug/procedure to
> either a ship or station outside the territorial limits, or perhaps even
> to another world (either in the same system, but more likely to another
> system) for the desired drug/procedure?
>
> I could see a company like SuSAG, Sharushid, or even Tukera (but
> especially SuSAG) operating large hospital ships or barges (essentially
> something like a converted battle rider) outside the territorial limits
> in systems where such things are more highly regulated and yet still
> highly desired.
>
> How would the local government react?
> How would the system, subsector, or even sector nobles react?
> Would their be any Imperial doctrine to handle cases like this?

If it happens in the different system, Imperial doctrine would be that
it's just too bad. OTOH, Imperial doctrine doesn't say that you can't
ban your world's people from leaving, so there's that.

I think that most worlds wouldn't actually *do* anything real about such
services. Those who really believe that the proceedures are wrong would
rant and rave, but as long as the price was high enough that the great
majority of the world's citizens couldn't afford it, nothing would
actually happen. After all, effective controls on this would stop the
elites enjoying the service, and the elites have never really felt that
the rules should apply to them.

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