What would be crimes for Starfinder?

[Dread Pirate Fluffy Cuddles]

Will be ripping off Dark Matter and I need crimes that would fit the Starfinder / Sci Fi. I have Smuggling and Piracy for starters. Thanks!

[Imbicatus]

Murder, theft of both physical property and data, slavery(on some worlds), smuggling, dealing in illegal goods - weapons, drugs, and so on.

[Distant Scholar]

Kidnapping/abduction can be a good one.

[GM Rednal]

Falsifying currency?

[Dread Pirate Fluffy Cuddles]

I was also thinking Genocide. I'm sure there are starship weapons that can cause enough damage.

[Gilfalas]

Dread Pirate Fluffy Cuddles wrote:

Will be ripping off Dark Matter and I need crimes that would fit the Starfinder / Sci Fi. I have Smuggling and Piracy for starters. Thanks!

I was wondering about this myself. With at least one necromantic and decidedly evil planet (Eox) being a member of the Pact Worlds I am curious to see if they give any sort of charter for the Pact Worlds and any legal assumptions that have to be obeyed in their space.

As to your original question, I think first you need to decide the law level of the region your thinking about and then go from there.

Pact space I assume will be probably pretty analogous to our current legal and rights systems in real life and it may be well patrolled and garrisoned so that enforcement of that system is feasible.

I would suggest checking the Wikipedia page for the definition of Crime as a great first step as they help break down common legal concepts and divisions which may make it easier to make even a basic write up if that is what you want.

As a quick sample:

Offence against the person
Violent offence
Sexual offence
Offence against property

Researchers and commentators have classified crimes into the following categories, in addition to those above:

Forgery, personation and cheating
Firearms and offensive weapons
Offences against the State/offences against the Crown and Government/political offences
Harmful or dangerous drugs
Offences against religion and public worship
Offences against public justice[/offences against the administration of public justice
Public order offence
Commerce, financial markets and insolvency
Offences against public morals and public policy
Motor vehicle offences
Conspiracy, incitement and attempt to commit crime
Inchoate offence
Juvenile delinquency
Victimless crime

[Umbral Reaver]

Do not 'accidentally' vent drive plasma while docked.

[Steelfiredragon]

spacing someone...
starting the cult of the anti-gnome
lewd acts
public indecency
public drunkeness
piloting a fighter while udner the influence
piloting a ship while under the influence
emptying your ship's bio waste during drift space
playing dead space with the light turned off and thinking this would be a good idea for a starfinder plot

[TempusAvatar]

Need to get citations for swearing, it's easier than trying to use the three seashells.

[Dread Pirate Fluffy Cuddles]

Every little bit helps, thanks everyone. Even the seashells.

[Steven "Troll" O'Neal]

Undocumented xenoform importation. I mean, can you don't want alien kudzu all over the place.

[Steven "Troll" O'Neal]

Terraforming inhabited worlds.

[Ventnor]

Redirecting the forces of light and gravity without a license.

[Ford Prefect]

Vogon poetry.

[Mr Merdon]

Narn Opera

[Seisho]

How about weird ones?
Maybe there are planets where kissing in the open is considered public indecensy and punishable by death - try to get your party out of that

[Ventnor]

Let us not forget that most heinous of crimes on Castrovel, being a human on a sunny day.

[David knott 242]

Seisho wrote:

How about weird ones?

Maybe there are planets where kissing in the open is considered public indecensy and punishable by death - try to get your party out of that

Given that kissing requires an uncovered mouth, I am pretty sure that the Kasatha would have a law against it. They probably wouldn't execute anyone for it, but they would definitely consider it indecent.

[Aqua Zesty Man]

Jail time for different offenses probably vary according to species longevity. A ten year sentence means a lot less to an elf or drow than it would to a goblin.

Other crimes:

Genetic theft (misdemeanor)

Cloning without consent (felony)

Cloning a person and duplicating their brain pattern, so the two are identical or near identical twins:capital offense, because you have to recognize the clone as a person at that point and can't terminate them.

Spells like the enchantment school that override a person's will, should be considered a form of mental rape. It is similar to spiking a person's drink then taking advantage of them. If they are under your control and commit certain crimes, you the caster would be the guilty party rather than the involuntary slave.

Ecological crimes might go above and beyond destruction of property or vandalism. If you contaminate a space station's air or water supply or cause the recycling machinery to make it inoperable, it's going to rank up there with manslaughter, reckless homicide, murder. Similarly if you damage or contaminate a colony's or starship's rationed food supply you're also dooming those who depend on it to a slow death by starvation or deficiency of essential vitamins, minerals, etc.

Starship theft should be an infamous crime, like stealing horses or cattle were in the Old West, or grand theft auto in modern times. It represents a person's livelihood (or the whole crew's). So piracy maybe should get you a long jail sentence in some places, or years of hard labor in others. Destruction of a stolen ship: capital crime for sure.