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Proscribed, Semi-legal and Illegal Activities

Not everything is legal in the Civilized Galaxy. There are many regions, especially some antinomian non-aligned worlds, and some NoCoZo polities and free zones, where you can get anything you want. And of course, in the Wilds there are some places where anything goes (or so it is said).




Bodyjacking - Coercive tele-operation of another sophont.

DNI Death Cults - DNI suicide pacts, Death Cults and serial killers with DNI who link with eir victims to actually feel eir victims' deaths.

Sapient Food - Food in any shape or form that can feel pain, have the ability to solve problems and think. Banned throughout much of the terragen sphere except for some barbarous regions.

Subsumption - A form of mental cannibalism, in which the victim's substrate and cognitive structures are absorbed.

Tormentor Tours - An often illegal form of recreational tourism, in which a jaded citizen may visit a lower tech region, with the express purpose of creating mild havoc; appearing to the inhabitants as spirits, mythological figures, aliens, or time travellers from the future.






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