User talk:Murgh/Racing league

For consideration:

Given this:

The two thousand star systems of the Cooperative once enjoyed a golden age of peace and prosperity, and perhaps the wealthiest of them can still pretend to. The trade ships that once safely travelled between planets now have to be well armed and escorted to fend off pirate attacks, from small-time criminals desperate for their next meal, to powerful robber barons extracting tithes from everyone who passes through their space.

The Cooperative's police force, concentrated near a few influential planets, can no longer maintain order. The mercenaries they hire for a few credits a kill are too few, too unreliable to do so either. And in the darkness between the stars, an old enemy lurks, fearless, perhaps waiting for order to collapse entirely. (from Oolite.org)

Presumably such racing only happens at the most well-policed systems with the police out in force... Cholmondely, 10:33, 20 December 2021‎

I think this stands to reason. To arrange luxury sport where there is chaos is bad business. This is escapism for the affluent. There would definitely be need for police presence, and in the event they are too restrained by the letter of the law, private security companies such as Pinkerton Galactic Security or Backwater Galaxy would not hesitate to take the job. OLDMURGH ^talk 11:42, 20 December 2021 (UTC)