NCA Directives

Although the six great institutions sprawl across the Home Cluster, your Ship is independent, at least in principle. It’s a certainty that your Captain holds the favour of some institutions and the ire of others. If there’s one that a Captain must manage especially carefully, it’s the NCA.The New Compliance Authority replaced the Compliance Authority, which replaced the Compliance Agency which replaced the Security and Compliance Agency, which was essentially a wing of the Free Exchange Trust. None of this matters as much as knowing that what started as an earnest attempt to ensure safe space travel and combat piracy has become a sprawling organisation equal parts pencil-pushing bureaucrats and barely-legitimised pirates, sharing the common goals of spreading NCA influence while building their own pension pots. Critics will tell you they’re just making up the rules as they go, an excuse to deal out fines, but there’s definitely a rulebook.Or, at least, rulebooks. They can’t be…