CDU Customs Procedures

"Here's a crazy idea to deal with smuggling. Forget running about like beheaded poultry trying to catch and inspect every last ship that traverses our space. The great concern is not that they have something illegal on their ship, so much as if they try to bring it here. If they want to bring something here, they have to dock to unload their cargo. Funnel all incoming cargo through bonafide starports. Set up a checkpoint at all starports through which all cargo must pass before it can leave the port and pass to the outside world. Require all cargo to pass inpection before it can cross that line."

- Thomas Mahon, Interim Presav

"And suddenly it ain't about how you've modded your bird or how hot your flying is. Now it all boils down to bureaucracy. Takes all of the fun out of smuggling."