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28-04-2023, 07:32 PM
2. Spacefaring Agencies - Bureau of Ships and Services (BoSS), Navies and Customs
Bureau of Ships and Services
The Bureau of Ships and Services is the galaxy’s record-keeper when it comes to starship and spacer information. It keeps extensive information on starship registrations and transponder codes, captains’ flight certification, and upgraded weapons loat-outs for all ships in the galaxy. It also keeps track of astrographical and navigational information as well as data on hyperspace routes used in nav computers.
Spacers get most of their flight documents from BoSS offices around the galaxy, registering their ships, heavy weapons, and their flight abilities with BoSS databanks. BoSS also matches ship registrations with starship transponder codes and collates all this information for use in the enforcement of spacefaring regulations. BoSS keeps track of these documents as well, noting the transfer of spacecraft between owners as well as any violations against certain captains or starships from various ports. It is also rumored that BoSS keeps a record of certain Captains wanted by Imperial, Republic or independent Bounty Hunting agencies.
The Bureau’s databanks are continuously updated and transmitted to starports, systems and enforcement agencies throughout the galaxy. What information is provided by the BoSS and how quickly it is delivered to a particular client depends on subscription fees paid to BoSS for access to updated starship and spacer information. The Bureau of Ships and Services is perhaps the strangest institution in the galaxy. It doesn’t make sense and it doesn’t pretend to make sense. It basically does a lot of filing and record-keeping that the Empire and the Republic simply don’t want to be bothered with.
BoSS has been the keeper of Starship information since time began (or so it often seems). It’s not really a bureau attached to any government or other institutions like other bureaus; it doesn’t owe loyalty to anyone. One would think that after years of patrolling the star lanes, both galactic governments would have conducted enough identification verification checks on starships and their captains to compile their own records. They could; they don’t want to be bothered - at least for the time being. To say that the Empire and the Republic have to depend on BoSS is like saying the bantha needs the parasitic fur mite to survive.
[Poster’s note: are you looking for a completely independent agency/clan/organization to work for that has access to immense starship databases? Look no further than the BoSS. While the BoSS is mainly an administrative entity, it wouldn’t be too out-of-lore to hire investigators to locate ships or captains that are suspected to be carrying false papers. Or some BoSS corrupt official that does a little something on the side by planting forged entries in the massive Bureau's databanks.
In my opinion, the BoSS is as close as you can get to a “legal” mafia family, whose trade is starship and spacer information. They guard that trade with ciphers, family secrecy and traditions spanning millennia! They would stop at nothing to make sure their own private trade remains secret, private and available only through them. Hmmmm… perhaps a future character idea.]
The Navies and Customs
While BoSS keeps track of spacefaring vessels, the Imperial/Republic Navy and Imperial/Republic Customs enforce law and starfaring ordinances regarding trade and illegal use of a starship. The Navy concerns itself mostly with violations of starfaring ordinances - especially illegal modifications to starships - while the Customs monitor trade and smuggling. Often, the jurisdiction of the two agencies overlap.
These days it’s almost standard procedure when encountering Navy ship to transmit your registration and certification data documents for verification against your transponder code and BoSS records. If anything is out of order, spacers are usually boarded, inspected and questioned.
The Navy also monitors the space lanes for pirate and espionage activity.
The only problem is most spy and pirate vessels have forged starship documentation planted within BoSS databanks by computer slicers. This forces the Navy to look for other, more clever ways to detect these renegades - as well as “legitimate” smugglers along the way.
Bureau of Ships and Services
Not gonna be printed for 3000 years to come Wrote:“The Bureau of Ships and Services is one of the oldest institutions in the galaxy. It has its own customs, traditions and unique personality. Most of the positions are filled through hereditary means. BoSS is as much a star-spanning tribe as it is a civil bureaucracy.
As centuries have passed and one government after government has come into power, BoSS is one of the few bureaucracies to remain relatively unchanged. BoSS has assured itself independence for two reasons. First, the sprawling and complicated files of the BoSS are kept in nearly indecipherable codes. Only family members have access to the organization codes of the files. The second reason is BoSS’s longstanding policy of neutrality. Each power that rules or manages a portion of the galaxy simply inherits BoSS’s facilities in their area of control. Apparently, the BoSS family has no political aspirations, and Republic or Empire - they’re all just another government that accept BoSS without threatening it.”
The Bureau of Ships and Services is the galaxy’s record-keeper when it comes to starship and spacer information. It keeps extensive information on starship registrations and transponder codes, captains’ flight certification, and upgraded weapons loat-outs for all ships in the galaxy. It also keeps track of astrographical and navigational information as well as data on hyperspace routes used in nav computers.
Spacers get most of their flight documents from BoSS offices around the galaxy, registering their ships, heavy weapons, and their flight abilities with BoSS databanks. BoSS also matches ship registrations with starship transponder codes and collates all this information for use in the enforcement of spacefaring regulations. BoSS keeps track of these documents as well, noting the transfer of spacecraft between owners as well as any violations against certain captains or starships from various ports. It is also rumored that BoSS keeps a record of certain Captains wanted by Imperial, Republic or independent Bounty Hunting agencies.
The Bureau’s databanks are continuously updated and transmitted to starports, systems and enforcement agencies throughout the galaxy. What information is provided by the BoSS and how quickly it is delivered to a particular client depends on subscription fees paid to BoSS for access to updated starship and spacer information. The Bureau of Ships and Services is perhaps the strangest institution in the galaxy. It doesn’t make sense and it doesn’t pretend to make sense. It basically does a lot of filing and record-keeping that the Empire and the Republic simply don’t want to be bothered with.
BoSS has been the keeper of Starship information since time began (or so it often seems). It’s not really a bureau attached to any government or other institutions like other bureaus; it doesn’t owe loyalty to anyone. One would think that after years of patrolling the star lanes, both galactic governments would have conducted enough identification verification checks on starships and their captains to compile their own records. They could; they don’t want to be bothered - at least for the time being. To say that the Empire and the Republic have to depend on BoSS is like saying the bantha needs the parasitic fur mite to survive.
[Poster’s note: are you looking for a completely independent agency/clan/organization to work for that has access to immense starship databases? Look no further than the BoSS. While the BoSS is mainly an administrative entity, it wouldn’t be too out-of-lore to hire investigators to locate ships or captains that are suspected to be carrying false papers. Or some BoSS corrupt official that does a little something on the side by planting forged entries in the massive Bureau's databanks.
In my opinion, the BoSS is as close as you can get to a “legal” mafia family, whose trade is starship and spacer information. They guard that trade with ciphers, family secrecy and traditions spanning millennia! They would stop at nothing to make sure their own private trade remains secret, private and available only through them. Hmmmm… perhaps a future character idea.]
The Navies and Customs
While BoSS keeps track of spacefaring vessels, the Imperial/Republic Navy and Imperial/Republic Customs enforce law and starfaring ordinances regarding trade and illegal use of a starship. The Navy concerns itself mostly with violations of starfaring ordinances - especially illegal modifications to starships - while the Customs monitor trade and smuggling. Often, the jurisdiction of the two agencies overlap.
These days it’s almost standard procedure when encountering Navy ship to transmit your registration and certification data documents for verification against your transponder code and BoSS records. If anything is out of order, spacers are usually boarded, inspected and questioned.
The Navy also monitors the space lanes for pirate and espionage activity.
The only problem is most spy and pirate vessels have forged starship documentation planted within BoSS databanks by computer slicers. This forces the Navy to look for other, more clever ways to detect these renegades - as well as “legitimate” smugglers along the way.
