So what was your best piracy encounter? (both from pirates and those halted)

[EisenSeele]

A few years back, when I flew my rogue ptrans, I came across an Interspace 5k almost entirely full of ore and with one passenger.
The 5k begged to be let go, since he had his daughter on board (the one passenger), and that she was all he had, and they'd go starving if they lost their cargo or paid any sort of piracy demand. He brought up some sob story about how their home was destroyed by pirates, and that he and his daughter lived out of their 5k from paycheck to paycheck, and how he'd lost his wife to piracy.

I listened and was so moved that I decided to be merciful.
I demanded he drop his daughter in space and that he shoot the pod in lieu of having to drop his entire cargo.

He made the easy choice almost instantly.
Interspace employees don't love the way we humans do - they're just cold, hard, money making machines.
When I encountered him again in space a few days later, he had a new daughter - but I didn't let him get off so easy.

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