"Commodore, we're being hailed by a small...I don't recognize it, sir. It's coming in fast, requesting to join our task force."
NukeIt's eyes narrowed. He leaned over the console of the officer who alerted him to the new arrival and studied the ship in detail.
"It's got an LPI flag on it. Stolen. From the look of it, an expensive little number...what do we have on the pilot?"
"Not much yet, sir. I'm cross-checking the voice pattern analysis with our records to see if he's on file..."
NukeIt drummed his fingers on the back of the chair, irritated. What was a ship stolen in Liberty space doing approaching a pair of cruisers obviously of Liberty manufacture? Did the pilot know anything about the affiliations of the crew...or about him?
"Bring defensive systems online. Until we can ID this guy, we're going to keep him at arms' length. Instruct him to hold at 2000 meters until further notice...any closer and he will be fired on. Cloak the Black Gold and keep our fighters out of sight; if he's not trustworthy those will be a dead giveaway as to who we are."
"Still no confirmation...Commodore, he's not in our records. Nothing, aside from a flag for stealing the ship he's flying now."
NukeIt sighed, agitated.
A thrill-seeking shipjacker blowing our cover...just what we didn't need right now.
"Open a channel to that ship."
The comms officer nodded, indicating that it was done.
"Pilot of unidentified vessel, please leave the area immediately, you are jeapordizing a military operation. If you keep quiet about this, we might not pass on your whereabouts to the Bounty Hunters' Guild and LPI. If you come any closer, we will consider it an act of aggression and open fire."
OOC: You know these cloak-and-dagger types. Not very inclined to be trusting every little ship that comes through, unless it's broadcasting a friendly beacon- and even then, it had better by somebody familiar flying the thing. File this under "pre-op paranoia" combined with "several years of sneaking around the colonies killing people for the Order and not getting noticed."