COMM ID:Admiral Alan Polstari TARGET ID:Primary Fleet Command HQ SUBJECT:Alaska Artifact Intercept ENCRYPTION:Medium PRIORITY:Medium
Greetings.
It appears that Commander Wicks is correct; we are suffering from a delude of smugglers who think escape means activating auto-docking procedures on our bases. The latest I ran into personally was a Pirate Train vessel running under the tag of Charles.Malcolm. Responding to reports of an unknown contact deep in the Alaska system, I made my way there to find this vessel hauling Artifacts. Having several Secondary Fleet Core vessels on hand, I made to intercept the vessel. The vessel fled with barely a word despite orders to stand down, so I gave authorization to engage and destroy. Unfortunately it made its way into activating the docking procedures at Juneau Shipyard before any proper damage could be done to it. Needless to say, I will be filing the appropriate reports with our docking software vendor to prevent such an occurrence from repeating itself for Mister Malcolm and these other vessels.