Ran this one in my T5 game a while back.

Players are on a world with a Theocracy, and deliberately low tech level.
Think militant Amish of sorts, with a Soviet Russia-style "have a
plain clothes cop follow all visitors" policy

Waitress at the restaurant slips a note  under one of the player's
plates asking to meet him.

Player... sigh... pulls the note out into plain view, reads it in
front of everyone, including the cop.... who comes over and asks
what's going on.
The player politely hands over the note... and is surprised when , 5
minutes later, the waitress is drug out of the place, yelling and
protesting her innocence.

The other players find out about this, decide to try to find out
what's going on... and convince the manager to talk to them.
The waitress's little girl has diabetes, and the local church
considers an artificial/rebuilt pancreas to be sacrilege.
There's been stories floating around that a TL-13+ Autodoc will do the
job, and the woman was going to try to get a "one orbit ride" on the
player's ship.

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 8:40 PM Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
>
> (Author's note:  I hope this doesn't get political because that isn't
> the intent.  I'm simply using the examples in a "what if" manner.)
>
> Two recent legislative initiatives regarding abortion were recently
> signed into law in the US states of Georgia and Alabama, severely
> restricting the procedure to a very narrow set of circumstances. This,
> along with some testimony in the House of Representatives regarding drug
> prices, started me thinking about medical tourism in the 3I.
>
> 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?
>
> I think it could be commercially viable, though in most cases it would
> probably have to be a "cash or verified credit" transaction since if the
> procedure/drug is outlawed where the citizen is from, I doubt that it
> would cover such things.
>
> Scenario Ideas:
> 1.  Travellers are hired to run a shuttle service as a sort of
> "underground railroad" from the planet to a station/ship orbiting a gas
> giant in the system posing as an extended "sight seeing" excursion.
> 2.  As 1, but they're hired to do vacations on a world located in a
> foreign system.
> 3.  As in 1 or 2, but their patron expects complete documentation on who
> is transported and what is procured for..."future purposes".
> 4.  Similar to 1 or 2, but the patron charters the Travellers and their
> ship to transport his extremely ill spouse or child to a medical "free
> zone" for life saving surgery that is prohibited on their home world.
> 5.  As 4, but there are agents of a rival faction to the patron that
> wish the spouse or child to die so that they can usurp the
> power/authority the deceased held.
> 6.  As 1 or 2, but the Travellers are only hired for the outbound part
> of the trip while another charter will return the patients to the
> homeworld.  The Travellers are approached by the younger sister of a man
> they took to the "hospital" six weeks ago for a routine procedure that
> was non-invasive and should have taken several hours at most.  He has
> yet to return and the sister is worried that the rumors of an organ
> harvesting or slavery ring are true and that her brother was a victim...
>
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