from: Battleship Persephone II
to: Council of the Corsair Elders [TBH]
"This is Jinx, cpt of the guardship persephone II. this is an official announcement about gaining [zoner guard] merits. during that process the ships IFF will most certainly show funny affiliations. This is unavoidable to initiate that process.
So just so the council knows - the ship is to be considered out of order while i exercise for the guards of the zoners. during these exercises, the station will sometimes use remote drones that show corsair IFFs, simply for the fact that the IFFs are different from our zoner IFFs. Order technicians have set up msot of those drones and they are used to improve the combat ability of the guards without messing with "real" opponents.
So you may see the Persephone II battle corsair IFFed ships in delta sometimes, but at closer look, you will see that those are remote drone if you want to make sure about it. We zoners prefer rather peaceful practice against the AI instead of duel practice like it is sometimes exercised by the corsairs. unfortunately those exercises are a necessary evil on gaining the zoner guards trust.
so that message is to make you aware that the ship is still in zoner service, even if its IFF is messed up right now - and that the ship is not fighting any corsair ships or anything but drones ( except when keeper ships show up ) - Jinx out"