That's quite a serious impediment to piracy as well. If you jump in to 100 diameters, and everyone within a 100 diameter of the world is following a path assigned by traffic control, and any deviation from that path is viewed as hostile, it's going to be all but impossible to intercept a ship for the purposes of piracy. -------- Original Message -------- On January 23, 2018 7:07 PM, shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote: > > That means that except around "frontier" worlds there will be Space > Traffic Control (STC), and they will get very particular about > orbits. > > Basically, you arrive at the 100 diameter limit, contact STC, and > they will assign you an approach trajectory that either leads to an > assigned parking orbit or to a land patternn (where you get handed > off to the local ATC whic controls everything from "low orbit" to > ther ground. > > Any powered manuevers will be required to mmeet two criteria. First, > that if you keep going at that acceleration vector you won't come too > near anything else. Second that if you lose power (or drop something) > that vector won't come near anything important. > > Failure to obey is going to be considered a very hostile act. And > will get you fired upon.