Two Imperial Freighters lost - Coincidence?

Date: 201008
Planet: Tatooine
Region: Farpoint Valley

Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).

Sources usually in the know leaked today that two weeks ago, an imperial freighter nicknamed "Torrent" dissappeared in the Kessel system after departing an Imperial Star Destroyer referred to as "Tormentor", and stationed in the Dathomir system. The cargo was not known, but rumored to be "experimental".

From what was leaked, the probable reason for the disappearance is an internal mechanical failure that occured while passing through the Corellian system en route to the core worlds. All crew are assumed to be lost. So far an investigation turned up nothing.

Then, a week ago, an imperial freighter being used as a scientific vessel was lost in the Endor system. All hands on board are assumed to have perished in an explosion, likely burned alive and incinerated.

While there are no links between those incidents - although the last freighter's flight computer and onboard database was lost, either in the explosion or later by illegal scavenging, which means any proof for a link may have disappeared - it seems quite the coincidence that in that short a time two vessels involved in experiments are lost.