Hello again Alex,

IIRC the Ziru Sirka forced all of the sophonts that survived contact into the same cultural standards as they had. If you were born in a mining family then you would be a miner.

Tom Rux

> On 07/17/2020 6:56 AM Alex Goodwin <xxxxxx@multitel.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> On 17/7/20 11:17 pm, Thomas RUX wrote:
> > Morning from WA. Alex,
> >
> > My recollection of Ziru Sirka is that they were a rigid organization that tried to control every detail of an operation.
> >
> > Tom Rux
> >
> >> <snip>
> >> Thus my question earlier about how prevalent, legal, and/or regulated
> >> belt mining is in the Ziru Sirka - one option I'm looking at for the
> >> Boatload of Lunatics to hide in plain sight is to front up as a mining
> >> support ship.  The disguise works much better (not to mention dodges
> >> pointed questions with very loud punctuation from the naval base they're
> >> casing) if there's actually belt miners that need supporting.
> >>
> >> Even if belt mining is legit(-ish), how their stunt Upsets The Sleep of
> >> Important People is a different kettle of fish.
> >>
> >> -----
> So that would be technically legal, heavily regulated, etc.  What about
> the social aspects - how common/respectable would belt mining be?
>
> Exactly the sort of applecart that has a magnetic attraction to/for
> PCs...  (as Chas & Dave put it, "Mash and Bangers' clangers come about
> quite frequently...." )
>
> And that's before we get to wildcat (unlicensed/illegal) mining.
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