COMM ID:Commander Adrian Wicks TARGET ID:Primary Fleet Command HQ SUBJECT:Cheeky Contrabanders ENCRYPTION:Medium PRIORITY:Medium
Greetings, sirs.
I've run into a rash of rather irritating smugglers these past few days. Specifically, ones who think that hiding on our bases is the way to avoid being captured. The sheer gall of these captains is astounding, as you'll observe below.
Our first vessel is the Lightrunner, a Firefly class vessel intercepted in the Alaska system hauling Artifacts. Attempts to flag the vessel for containment were rebuffed, and the pilot put in at Juneau under fire. Lieutenant Morse and myself managed to put some holes in him eventually, but not until after he'd managed to deliver his cargo and play the gopher some more.
Shortly thereafter Lieutenant Morse and myself ran across another Firefly class vessel, designation Night.Prowler, hauling Black Market Munitions in the New York system by Norfolk Shipyard. We ordered the vessel to hold, which the pilot of the vessel promptly ignored as he made his way to the bays of Norfolk. Unfortunately we lost the vessel's signal almost immediately after that occurred.
On behalf of the Lieutenant and myself, we'd appreciate if such an occurrence wouldn't repeat itself from these two vessels. It's already hard enough for us to inderdict smugglers without auto-docking protocols allowing them to slip past us.