So I'm on Azrael 3A doing a bit of prospecting and being quite successful collecting materials.
I see traces of a strange signal on my scanner, up at the top of the band. So I head towards it and it gradually gets clearer.
Eventually it resolves into two separate signals, both not quite like anything I'd seen before.
I get to the first one and it's piles of wreckage from a ship, but no salvageable stuff.
The second contact looks like a ship and, as I get closer, I get a "new contact" message.
I select it and it turns out to be a wanted NPC in a Viper IV, hovering above the surface.
At this point I decided to do something rather reckless and potentially dangerous.
I get in the turret and start firing at him.
His shields start going down quite nicely and then I get the "hardpoints deployed" message.
Now I'm in trouble I think, but he doesn't open fire.
His shields go down and now his hull starts taking damage, but still no return fire.
He comes out with one of those silly NPC phrases "Ha, you fight a good fight!" and then as his hull gets to 10% there's a "Frameshift charge detected" message, even though he's only a 100 metres or so off the ground.
Anyway,hull goes to zero, there's a big bang and that's him gone, just some wreckage and a few bits of material for me to salvage....
That was very strange....