When you say an attack or raid is legal as long as no one else witnesses it and thus informs local authorities, it makes sense regarding NPCs: kill them or capture them, take the hull, make sure no one can rat you out. How would that work with a PC? Even if I kill them, will they not still be able to report the attack after being revived?asked by Tsumiranus
TL;DRIrving says crimes are still crimes but need proof: in patrolled space relay satellites report an attack immediately, while in remote or jammed areas a victim's claim may not be believed, possibly leading to missions to recover proof.
So I think that we can see how this person is leaning from the way the question is, where it's like, it's not illegal if no one saw it. No, you're still breaking the law. But what we're doing with that is that you need proof is sort of the idea. If you kill somebody in space that is more patrolled, that is closer to the center of the UEE, then there's probably going to be little pigeon satellites there to convey the data back and forth. And so your ship immediately says, oh, gosh, this guy's attacking me. Probably doesn't say gosh. And starts broadcasting that out, and that information is immediately transmitted. If you're killed somewhere where that's not available or someone's jamming those or whatever the case, then what happens is, sure, you can come back and go, hey, so-and-so killed me. But they're probably not going to believe you, so there might be possible mission play there where you send a friend out or you go out to try to recover your transponder from your ship to prove who done you wrong.