I encountered several vessels carrying nomads. This includes two independentpirates piloting Outcast gunboats and a LSF fighter. I was only able to track the fighter, it came from Leeds through the Jump Hole and was heading into Liberty space. The pirates were also around the Leeds Jump Hole for some time. What the LSF is doing in Bretonia is unknown yet, but an increased nomad presence in or around Bretonia is possible.
The other encounter worth mentioning is a DSE transport. In hope I could teach a corporate lackey a lesson about their place in society I stopped the vessel.. and yet DSE showed some wicked sense of humor naming their ships: The Lovely Houston. The captain of the ship informed me that he is not appriciated by his current employers so he is doing jobs for Zoners without the approval of DSE to make enough money for living. He showed some willingness to turn on the corporate oligarchy but he obviously wasnt pushed that far to escape the life of a corporate lackey yet. Instead he offered some inside information about their convoys, although the reliability of that information is yet to be checked. Since my ship is outfitted for recon and there were no rescue ships available at the time, I had to trust him about taking the refugees he was carrying to a nice place. This looked like the right decision to make rather than risking the life of 2000 innocent people.