Sneaking onto a planet at TL 10

[Diomedes]

Originally Posted by johndallman

No. How about you tell us about the space traffic around this world? That might show a way of getting a ship through, although such ways may well have been discovered by the authorities and blocked in some manner.

Most traffic will leave hyperspace at a distance of about 5 light-seconds from an Earth-type planet; anything farther is probably the result of a navigational error. There will usually be a space station in orbit, containing one or more teleportation gates to locations on the surface. A tiny, new colony will only have one settlement, and thus need only one gate, while a slightly larger one may have more settlements, some unserved by gates - until those get installed, too. Most non-paperwork related smuggling is likely to be on these types of planets.