Hello Jack, my friend. Sam here. I got the message you left on my communicator, complaining about how I haven't filled a report on that rescue op yet... Ok, ok, although you were there, here is a report for your records...
After you and the guys that have robbed those annapurnas and kidnapped the crew arranged an 'exchange', I prep'd my dromedary freighter for the mission, the Morning Star. Plenty of room for the crews to lie down if they were injured.
We launched and encountered that One Eye fella near Freeport Ten.
Pretty wierd fella. Even knowing if he tried anything he would be blasted in seconds, he still came armed with nova torpedoes so to be sure to blow me up together with the rescued crew if the meeting had gone south. Luckly it didn't. Here is a scan I took confirming the 15 lifesigns all packed up like sardines in that ship's hold.
After some tense moments, when outcasts appeared to take a look on what was going on, and were chased away by our escorts, we finaly made the exchange of the hostages for the payment, and I docked with his ship and transfered the crew to my freighter. Quickly I cruised towards the Tau 23 jump hole and made it to Java, to get those folks to Medical.
Some of them had injuries, but none very serious.
After that, I went to Java's bar an had a drink. I hate these damn pirates!