Smuggling in Modern Traveller

[Condottiere]

Stealth and speed.

Or, just speed.

 

[MasterGwydion]

Smuggling is really simple. Starports are almsot all law level zero, and try to be agonist to goods on board. Just because its illegal where the starport is, doesnt mean its legal purchase elsewhere to elsehwere.
So you take the illegal guns. Sell it to a company that specializes getting goods past customs. Never need to do it yourself.
Not sure why tramp traders would ever need to do so. Unless they're smuggling stuff they want for their own private use.

You may want to rewrite this to be more clear as I am not sure I even understand what you are saying, but I will try...

First off, it is not smuggling if you are not carrying goods to where they are illegal. If you carry the goods from where they are legal, to where they are legal, such as a starport with a LL-0, that is not smuggling. That is just shipping. For it to be smuggling, the goods must, at the very minimum, pass through territory where said goods are illegal.

I am not aware of any legal companies that advertises themselves as smuggling specialists. That would pretty much guarantee some kind of a law enforcement/bounty hunter responses that would destroy the company and the people who worked for it.

As far as why tramp traders would need to smuggle stuff? That's easy. Because they are being paid to, because these political prisoners need to be gotten to safety, because freeing these slaves is the right thing to do, because they believe that people have a right to eat regardless of what those in power say, etc etc etc. There are literally millions of different reasons why tramp traders may be smugglers.

 

[JBRocky]

Don't know if anyone mentioned it but JTAS 14 has an article about smuggling.

 

[MasterGwydion]

Don't know if anyone mentioned it but JTAS 14 has an article about smuggling.

This I did not know! Thank you!