<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=141836.msg6497129#msg6497129">Quote from: Chrystal on 26-06-2012, 21:31:37</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">It's the lack of bounties that actually makes the black market. If Linda could legitimately hunt down escapees and bring them back to be collared, she wouldn't need to sell them illegitimately via corrupt BAF officers to get them back into the system. Slave Laundering is probably quite an advanced science and as the BAF cracks down on it, I can imagine the black-marketeers  getting more sophisticated in avoiding the checks and exploiting the remaining loopholes, or possibly creating new loopholes.<br/><br/>Hai and I have discussed the actual process to launder a slave, via the usual route. To do so via the black market would require a significant bribe to someone in power, I think...?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Now that I am going to be playing a BAF official I'm starting to think like one.<br/><br/>I was considering playing a corrupt official, but Haibane wanted my new guy to be legit because there are already some characters associated with the black market.<br/><br/>If someone brings in a female, she's either registered or unregistered.  One of the following will happen:<br/><br/>1.  If she's registered and free (her fees paid up and she therefore has an EFS license), DNA will confirm her status and she can be released.  (As an aside, if a free female loses her license or her license is stolen, DNA will clear her and she can get a new license, since she's paid up.)<br/><br/>2.  If she's registered and a slave, DNA will confirm her status and she can be returned to her owner.<br/><br/>3.  If she's unregistered and under 18, she's released.<br/><br/>4.  If she's unregistered and 18 or over, she's taken into custody as a public slave.<br/><br/>If a bounty system is in place, then the captor can bring a female in.  If the female is taken into custody as a public slave, she has to get registered, and her DMV has to be calculated.  The BAF office could then give the captor a cut of the DMV, and the female can be trained and sent to a slave trading house.<br/><br/>If there's no bounty, then there's temptation for BAF officials to be corrupt and work with black market slavers.<br/><br/>If there is a bounty, the black market is pretty much gone, which is what the BAF wants.<br/><br/>While we're at it, is there a purpose to delaying registration of a female until she turns 18?  I think females should be registered from birth, kind of like getting a birth certificate and social security number.  Below 16 - name and DNA swab only.  16 and up - full registration process but still free.  18 and up - full registration process and either trained to be sold, enslaved to CMR, or freed by CMR.<br/><br/>