Yes, that's a fair comparison. In a similar vein, I imagine ZCDF has priority on in-system SAR as well. There's probably some standard radius from a system's primary star which is the starfaring equivalent of the nautical 12-mile limit - 50 AU (the distance to the Solar system's Kuiper cliff) or something like - within which such things are customarily handled by forces that don't need to be equipped for long-haul interstellar travel (though you'd obviously still want FTL capability at those distances from HQ). Which is not to say a WDF ship - or anybody else - wouldn't answer a distress call within such a boundary. Unwritten spacers' code and all.

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