I was under the impression that the paperwork requirement was introduced with the intention of being a rate-limiter, so that bounty hunters *didn't* kill every hostile they saw. Too much BH camping OC and Corsairs and so forth, so make them work from a bounty board and take pictures and detail the actions... keeps them from camping all day. As it stands right now I can't even kill pirates in the independent systems who are caught in the act of piracy unless they are on one of the boards, and that is as intended.
What's funny is the IC ID actually does allow it. But IC can't use gunboats:(
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