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Quote:Dartz wrote:
My point was, so far all that's needed to claim an asteroid as your own is sticking down a beacon. While Yayoi's is respected because she is, and because it's only the one.... in theory there's nothing stopping any commercial entity from going out there and spamming marker beacons with the sole aim of claiming ownership of the common resource before their competitors manage to do it. It takes weeks to days to survey a rock and determine if it's actually commercially viable, but only minutes to flyby one with a remote drone and drop a marker on it.

The natural business strategy therefore is to claim as much as possible, - especially if claiming is cheap - and survey at your leisure rather than rushing to survey and then claim the rocks you know are good. There's no real cost to claiming, or sitting on a claim. There may however, be a catastrophic cost if you don't claim fast enough.

Actually useful asteroids are not that inexhaustible a resource.

I'm sure the convention registry has dispute resolution mechanisms, or such things as adverse possession or squatters rights. (Hey, it's your own fault for not policing your claim or doing anything with it).
Odds are good that it wouldn't take very long a period of beacon spamming before the convention would tweak the rules to require a full survey be logged and mining operation scheduled for a beacon claim to stick. Plus, beacon spamming likely couldn't be done with significant levels of Fen help, most of them likely still keep tabs on the patent law mess dirtside, and still have to deal with spam getting through their email filters.I would also add onto the pile indicating that "fire a warning shot" is a bad idea... we're still not that far out of the Boskonian War, by all rights, and there are still isolated pockets of boskonians that will turn to violence when the Patrol gets too close with their sticks... anyone who fires a warning shot, even if a warning message is broadcast with sufficient time to allow turning back, would be treated as a Boskonian threat and eliminated. And any Danelaw company hiring a group for security that would do such actions would find itself rapidly unwelcome in Fenspace.
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