Hmmm... And maybe a smart entrepeneur could deal with indenturing contracts and "indentured personel" transport between stations.Alan Phipps wrote:Well if not outright slavery, then how about bringing captured offenders to a military station for summary justice and them *perhaps* being sentenced to do indentured community service as allied ship or station crew (as a relatively attractive alternative to hard labour and incarceration)?
Of course high profile contracts could prove to be more valuable