The Stanton system is monitored. If you commit crimes here, you get a CrimeStat (CS). The CS comes in different levels, depending on how serious the crimes you’ve committed are and how many there are.
Lots of low-level crimes can add up to a higher CS.
Consequences
Fines
You can clear all crimes with CS 1 or CS 2 by paying a fine at any landing location. To do so, go to a special terminal. They’re usually near the hangars.
Imprisonment
From a CS of level 3 onwards, money won’t help you anymore. You’ll be attacked immediately by the security staff of law-abiding stations.
The only station in Stanton that doesn’t take this so seriously is Grim HEX. You can still land there with your CS and use the services there.
Several smaller offenses (CS 1 and 2) add up to CS 3. If you then manage to get to a terminal, you can still pay your fine and get rid of the CS. Only individual crimes of level 3 or higher can’t be paid off.
On top of that, the system now sets bounty hunters, meaning other players, on you. There are then public bounties on your head.
Klescher
If you die with a CS, you don’t wake up in a medical bed as usual, but in Stanton’s prison, Klescher. Go to a terminal there and you’ll see how much real time you have to serve.
Now you have several options:
- Do nothing and serve your time. You can also just log out, the time keeps running.
- Head into the mines and do some hand mining. Even a few mined ore deposits can set you free again.
You can hand in the ore you’ve mined at terminals like these - Get hold of ore and other items some other way and hand them in. How you get them is up to you. You could always take a look in your fellow inmates’ backpacks. They won’t let you do that voluntarily, though.
- Escape. For that, you have to find a way out through the mines and get someone to pick you up outside. Your CS stays, though.
Hacking the security system
You can also equip yourself with a Tigers Claw, head to a surveillance satellite and delete your CS record there. But several NPCs are waiting for you there, and possibly human bounty hunters too. So it’s pretty risky. Afterwards, though, you’re a free Citizen again and don’t have to pay for anything anymore.