IMC Convoy involved in spy affair?

Date: 270710
Planet: Tatooine/Naboo System/Ord Mantell
Region: Farpoint Valley/Nova Orion Station

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

After the loss or near loss of two convoys in the past weeks, the Intergalactic Mining Corporation spared no expense in making sure their next ore cargo arrived safely at the Nova Orion shipyards in Ord Mantell. When the ship - Captain Alila Tisoni's YT-2400 "Corelian Star" - launched from Farpoint Valley, Tatooine, it was escorted by four fighters: One TIE Fighter and one TIE Oppressor, courtesy of the Imperial Navy, a Bellubab-22 piloted by Barrenger Fynar and one Vaksai piloted by Consequential.

The convoy excited the Tatooine system without encountering any pirates, but was attacked severalt times in the Naboo system, without any harm done other than some armor damage to one fighter, before reaching the Ord Mantell System.

There the "Corellia Star" encountered an unidentified Corellian corvette, which started to fire on the convoy while the freighter sped away. While the corvette was destroyed in the following fight, one Imperial pilot later, on the Nova Orion Station, voiced his suspicion that Captain Tisoni had sent an encoded transmission to the corvette prior to the battle - though the destruction of the corvette meant that it could not be proven or disproven. Further investigations are expected though.

IMC shares rose 2% at the Coronet Stock Exchange following the news.