On 6/29/2021 9:33 PM, Jonathan Clark - jonathan at att.net (via tml
list) wrote:
>     Making the assumption that the technology to clean this up exists,
> without getting
>>     into the details, I can see this as a function of the IISS.  Much
>> like how the
>>     US Coast Guard owns the federal ice breaking ships.  One of those
>> tedious jobs that
>>     need to be done to keep the Imperium functioning.  A dedicated
>> cleaning ship can
>>     make the rounds of several subsectors, and then repeat.
>
> Certainly an interesting idea. How does the 3I charge the system which
> benefits?
> If at all? And of course some systems may be 'dirty', and others 'clean'.

The Imperium has many, many bureaucrats to figure out the billing and
payment plans.

The old SciFi series Quark seems a good fit for this type of work.

It's the type of job you really have to screw up badly to get assigned
to, or get the "right" score on an aptitude test.