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Outpost security

The three trader outposts no longer defend themselves with turrets. Each now has a security squad of real people, and what they do depends on the stars you carry. Traders and checkpoint guards are people too and can be killed, and an outpost that has been shot up cleans itself up afterwards.

Wanted stars

• Crimes at an outpost put stars on the person who did them, shown as a wanted alert on the HUD. There is no chat text about stars.
• A crime counts only if someone saw it: an officer, a trader, a gate guard, a bystander or a camera. Kill the witness, or break their radio before the call goes out, and nobody is wanted. Fighting back against someone who attacked you first is not a crime.
• Punches, weapons, gunfire, vandalism, hitting staff or shoppers, a drawn gun without a permit, forcing the checkpoint, breaking out of a cell, looting a prisoner's locker and fighting officers all raise stars. Killing someone is three stars at least.
• Stars fade if you stay out of sight or leave the outpost. At three and up they hold while you are still there.

Stars	What security does
1-2	Orders you to stop, stuns and cuffs you, takes what you used, walks you to the desk
3	Shoots to kill. No surrender
4-5	As 3, your crewmates at the outpost are arrested, and your crew is embargoed at that outpost

The security squad

• Officers walk beats around the concourse, stop for coffee, sit at the desk, talk to each other and call things in on the radio. They are ordinary people: they can be stunned, cuffed, wounded and killed like anyone.
• More officers arrive through staff lifts as stars rise, and keep coming. They stay inside the outpost and its hangars and do not board docked ships.
• Officers in green and yellow space spare someone who is down. In red space they finish the job.
• Each outpost has its own force, with its own look and voice.

Officer looks per outpost (beat, sergeant, officer, tactical, marshal):

Patrol routes on each outpost:

Arrest, fine, jail

• At one or two stars an officer stuns and cuffs the offender, takes every item used in the crime (it is destroyed at the desk), and fines the crew's ship accounts. Paid, you wait in a cell for a short while and walk out.
• If the fine cannot be paid you go to jail for a few minutes. Your gear goes into a property locker outside the cells and you wear a prison jumpsuit. You keep your ID and implants. There is no debt afterwards, and paying the fine ends the term early.
• The locker opens for you or your ID, or for an emag. Anyone can empty one, but a theft an officer sees is two stars and the goods go back. Gear nobody collects stays locked. If every locker is in use the one left longest is emptied onto the floor.
• Forcing a cell door sets off an alarm and is three stars, as is walking out early. A prisoner who is badly hurt or dies in a cell gets the door opened and a medic called.

The security station on each outpost's lobby side (cells, property lockers, desk, evidence chute):

Lethal response and the embargo

• At three stars officers shoot to kill, and a surrender is not taken.
• At four stars crewmates at the outpost are arrested, not shot, and every ship of the crew is embargoed at that outpost: no shops, no checkpoint. Five stars lasts longer, and every officer killed adds more time. Other outposts are unaffected.

Killable traders and gate guards

• Traders and checkpoint guards are people behind a counter or a booth. A shop is open only while its keeper stands at the counter. A dead, knocked out or dragged-off trader closes the shop, and a replacement arrives with the new staff.
• A trader may drop one item from their shelf when killed, within a small cap per outpost. The shop stock itself cannot be looted.
• Killing a trader or guard in sight of anyone is four stars at least. A guard's death leaves the gate working.

The stick-up

Point a gun at a trader behind their counter and they hand over the till, or one cheap item if it is empty. They raise the alarm when you leave their sight or half a minute later. Armed robbery is two stars. If you are caught the gun is destroyed and the takings go back.

The gate emag

An emag on the checkpoint's wall scanner takes the gate down for a few minutes: nobody is scanned and both doors open for anyone. Anyone who sees it reports you. With the guard dead and nobody watching, nobody reports it. The same scanner cannot be emagged again for a while.

Morgue crews and janitors

• After a massacre, once things go quiet, morgue crews and janitors arrive by staff lift. Morgue workers bag the dead and haul them off. Dead visitors, yours included, are placed in a tray in the outpost's new morgue and can be collected. Player bodies are never deleted.
• Janitors mop blood and pick up casings and litter. Both crews carry radios, talk to each other and are people like any other.
• When the floors are clean, new traders, guards and officers walk in from the lifts, shops reopen as their keepers reach the counter, and the regulars drift back. If crews keep getting killed, the next one comes later with more escort, and after four in a row the port sends nobody for a quarter of an hour.
• Each outpost gets a morgue, a janitor closet, a security station with two cells, property lockers, a desk and an evidence chute, and signs for the stalls.

The new morgue and janitor closet, before and after:

A morgue worker:

Removed

• The outpost defense turrets.
• The warning strikes and the marked-on-sight system.

The checkpoint, the hazard protection and the sanctuary doors stay. Player outposts and the prison wing are untouched.

Branch

Based on #512 (feature/hyperviolence-mega). It includes the stealth branch, which the officers' patrols and witness checks use.

Testing

Compiled with no errors, and the new unit tests pass; the suites that also fail on the base branch still fail the same way. Not playtested.