Quote:The Captain in question was stopped, ordered to drop cargo, where upon it was fired upon by the pirate in question. The matter is simple, and an obvious attempt by a known criminal to frame a member of the IND for his own heinous crime.
== Incoming Transmission ==
Location: Planet Curacao, Cortez
Vessel: OSC luxury liner Crying Lightning
ID: captain John Frial
Format: Text
Mr. Riche,
The matter is not that simple after all.
You say that captain was "ordered to drop cargo". We are not talking about some ore, machinery, artifacts or whatever you in IND are used to deal with. We are talking about over two thousand passengers. Complying with demand to jettison them is a criminal negligence, to say at least.
From what I can gather, your captain dropped these passengers in a cowardly attempt to save his own skin and ship. Explain this.