You are all making some heavy assumptions here and we all know that's far from where this all should lead, never mind if it is going well to prove you point.
Let's say that Kishiro travels to Liberty and meets a LN (indie) gunboat zooming around our whales. This guy gets bit annoying and even fires a salvo on our C-transes and whales to "test our shields LOL".
Screenshoting this message and sending it to real LN would be a right thing to do. Should his actions continue, re-sending it to LN would work, until finally we would have to do an OORP response and file a rule violation report on him.
(that's for lols)
Moving to another example. The convoy reaches Liberty now and we have 20k plutonium all together in our holds. The LN (again indie) captain of a cruiser or a gunboat decides to hold down our vessels and make remarks about how dangerous our cargo is.
After detaining us for 15 minutes of system chat and refusing to escort us to pennsylvania after that a message to official LN would be sent again demanding compensation for lost time.
Seeing how we're official, and LN is official there's no reason to say "hey, it's bridge under the water" because that's far from the normal reaction one would expect. "Disciplinary action has been taken take our humble apologies" is something that one would be pleased with.
Keep in mind that indie has the same rights and he can contact his official faction and seek representation in some cases. My Kempetai caught an Zoner capital ship in New Tokyo once and the Capship even fired on me once. I submitted a report to KNF and made sure they're aware of the case. It's the best I can do.
But it all breeds roleplay more than assuming it'll suck.
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