The gunboat pilot you where talking about is an old Kruger rp'ed ship. Its a RM id hired by the krugers to protect them. Not only that but O-7 is rheinland space. Pirates should be killed, but instead of ganking its kinda sad to tag along then so the gb pilot left and went to your gb friend. (ganking is never fun)
Img is competing indeed, but if there is a common interest in like destroying some pirate forces it would make sense to clear that treath first as its stated in the lawls of Rheinland wich both Kruger and IMG have to keep themselves too. Afterwards we could have blasted them as well, but the numbers were also not even so we decided to leave it and go.
I hope the next encounter you have along with the faction would be a more enjoyable, but sometimes things like these can give some problems. Do not forget we are all human after all.
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