Yesterday, Mister Yoshida and I noticed a sudden boost of activity in Manchester and decided to check it out. As we entered the system, the radars were clear until we stumbled across a Corsair battleship and a Corsair cruiser. Using warships for piracy says a lot about them. They tried to shoot us down, they failed. The warships were very lightly armored, but we still had no means of destroying them without a pack of bombers. However, after realizing they cannot touch us, they left.
After that, Mister Yoshida and I took over the lane and soon, a Shetland full of boron ran into us. The corporate flunky tried to negotiate with us, but soon, he realized he was better off with following our demands and Mister Yoshida extorted 2.5 million credits from him, which we split in half. Mister Yoshida relocated at Birmingham - Cortez lane, and after a while instructed me to move to his position. He found a Freelancer with trade lane parts in his cargo hold. After a minor interrogation, the Freelancer was instructed to drop the above mentioned items and didn't show any resistance. We took as much as we could and brought the parts to Mactan for reverse engineering.
After the event, we returned to our positions and resumed the operation. A shipment of helium arrived and was extorted without problems. Mister Yoshida concluded that the operation was successful, and we returned to Mactan.