Meaning of lawless?

[ZanyScum]

Hello,
what is the meaning of lawless? Not wanted. But a red "lawless".

[Mu77ley]

It means you're in an Anarchy system, so no law applies. Fire at will basically. ;)

[DragonIV]

Lawless means you're in a system with no government enforcement, so they have no local wanted status but you can kill them regardless of if they have other system bounties or not. In other words, if you're a pirate, happy hunting. :)

[Wolf]

Originally posted by dragoniv:

Lawless means you're in a system with no government enforcement, so they have no local wanted status but you can kill them regardless of if they have other system bounties or not. In other words, if you're a pirate, happy hunting. :)

this also applies to combat zones. civil law is suspended for military combat :)

[Sapyx]

"Lawless" means there are no laws and no cops patrolling that region of space. It might be an anarchy, it might be a warzone. Either way, you can shoot at them, and they can shoot at you, and neither of you will earn a "Wanted" tag, anywhere, for doing so. No fines or bounties will be placed upon either of you, either.

If you're shooting at an NPC in a Lawless zone, the faction that owns the ship will still disapprove of you blowing their ship up. But they won't place a bounty on you.

[funkynutz]

Oh smeg really?

I figured it was people like me who'd been earning credits by smuggling. Lawbreakers who hadn't technically been caught yet so had no bounty... Doh!

Also if that's the case, why do some people still show up as wanted?

[ZanyScum]

I googled a bit and together with your comments it seems:

wanted: bounty
lawless: can be killed in this system without getting a bounty yourself

So, if you kill guys who are lawless, you do not always get a bounty.
Lawless can be that he is from the "wrong" faction, so you can kill him here, but perhaps only here (in this system) without any penalty.

[Sapyx]

If you're in a Lawless zone, everyone will initially be Lawless. If you scan them with a KWS, and they have a bounty, they may then show up as "Wanted".

I have seen reports of Anarchies not working properly, but it may simply be a case of people using obsolete Galactic Map data, rather than relying on the SYstem Map, which is always up to date.