I had to destroy 6 traders today! They all refused to pay our safety-passage fee! Then at least finally one decided to pay 2 mils, so it wasn't a complete failure. We don't want them dead, we want them safe (and willing to pay us of course). We have to keep up harrassing them until they realise this and start using their heads for thinking instead of.... something else.
*chills out*
Anyway, I also spotted an outcast in a Sabre in Omega 5 today and engaged immediatelly. When he realised he's starting to loose, he flew an docked on Planet Cambridge, which obviously surprised me. At the time a military cap ship appeared and I had to move elsewhere. But I came back later to Planet Cambridge to finish that Outcast. He appeared and fought alongside another trader in a Container Transport. Their combined firepower was starting to worry me but then another surprise came. After I managed to scratch the outcast, one by one, they both commited suicide in the planet's atmosphere. One of them accidentally I think.