Another reason for the heavy-handed Liberty approach comes from something as simple as stopping a smuggler or a lone pirate bomber then after a few minutes of RP we're ambushed by a force of 2-3 gunboats and multiple bombers/fighters. This might be why it sometimes seem we're quick to get to the pew-pewing especially if theres only a fighter/bomber or 2 that stopped your pirate. Yesterday we even had a Red Hessian Cruiser come up and open fire on us as we were RPing with rogue dessie we had stopped just off Planet Mojave in California. When you have stuff like that happening multiple times, you start to get a bit paranoid and bring extra firepower along with you if possible.