Just curious how GM's and player's deal with Corpses and their ramifications in public spaces? Specifically, in shady locations like a seedy bar filled with all manner of scum where no one really bats an eye about a bar fight gone south, and there may or may not even be local Authorities that would follow up. Example: In the Cantina on Tatooine; Obi-wan Sliced that Aqualish's arm off or Han blasted Greedo; who cleaned up the mess?

Questions that seem to arise:

• Who is cleaning up the mess? Do they dispose of the body or Wait for Authorities to come and clean it up?
• Even though no one cares, wouldn't the Bar Proprietor ask them to leave?
• Why would any reasonable person still stick around?

This was a curious question to me because more than one of the published adventures involve a bar fight, and then as written often assumes the PC's just hang out afterwords.

My personal thought

Well, considering that same bar also had to clean up a dead Rhodian, and tossing him a coin and saying "Sorry about the mess" is sufficient recompense, I'd say the owner either does it themselves, or hires a cleaning crew for that.

It also depends on where they are. In one of the Imperially controlled Core Worlds, a LOT of things are likely going to happen. Cops will show up, take pictures, evidence, the full CSI routine, or at least more likely to do so.

The Outer Rim? Meh, if your lucky the local marshall might take notice of it, otherwise, the body will probably just be dumped in some recycling system for processing. Or given to any family for burial.

Really, the answer to your question depends on how lawful, or lawless the place is that has just been corpseified.

Space Service-Pro.....

As a reward my players made a connection with a certain salvage company that agreed to buy restricted items, such as blasted stormtrooper suits or E-11s.

Also, there is a difference between "how are the bodies disposed of?" and "there are no consequences for their actions" One is the simple, day-to-day operation of a population where people die regularly (from all kinds of things), and "we need to find the person who killed this guy."

I got the impression you were more interested in the day-to-day aspect, not so much the "they don't have any consequences for their murder spree."

On a Rim world, with a level of sophistication equal to an Old West town, they'd probably just bury the body with a shovel, put up some kind of marker, and that's that.

You'd be amazed at the services bartenders get paid to perform on a regular basis...

You'll just have to trust me on this one. Details are best... avoided.

Well, I'm sure some of them also have a cleanup crew.

If they aren't doing anything criminal themselves....

https://www.servpro.com/trauma-crime-scene-cleanup

9 hours ago, KungFuFerret said:

I got the impression you were more interested in the day-to-day aspect, not so much the "they don't have any consequences for their murder spree."

On a Rim world, with a level of sophistication equal to an Old West town, they'd probably just bury the body with a shovel, put up some kind of marker, and that's that.

I take this approach, especially for something as carefree as Star Wars. Underworld shootout in a rough place? Life goes on. Of course, with Edge, part of the fun is whether the stiffs had friends. But that's usually a problem for another scene.

So far, my players have a good sense of when physical conflict does and doesn't matter, saving me a lot of energy.

8 hours ago, satkaz said:

Well, I'm sure some of them also have a cleanup crew.

That reminds me of Mr. Kaplan from Blacklist. Every crime boss needs a cleaner.