Quote:That's not quite true, you can hide and you can't hide in Fenspace. Remember, the solar system is a big place; once you get outside the major traffic lanes, it's reasonably easy to slip into the background. This is how Boskone hid until it consituted a major threat, after all.
The combination of non-isolation and the lack of real places to hide should make it hard to keep things quiet.
However, it's difficult to actually commit crimes when you're hidden like that. Again using Boskone as an example, it wasn't until they started attacking shipping and isolated bases that they really differentiated themselves from the rest of the eccentrics.
It's a little early in the universe for it, but I could see the less-populated parts of the solar system becoming popular hideouts for mob bosses and other bigshot crooks around 2025-30 or so. The combination of isolation plus distance makes it an ideal situation.---
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