Suspicious ambush in the Corellia system

Date: 220611
Planet: Corellia System

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

Last night a freighter being escorted through the Corellia System was attacked several times by unidentified raiders including one capital ship. While such attacks are sadly not uncommon CorSec officials investigating the attacks commented that the tactics used were different from regular pirate attacks.

As a pirate expert stated usually the escorting ships of a freighter are taken down first but the freighter is almost always quickly disabled if the opportunity presents itself. In this case the attackers focused on the escort to the exclusion of everything else, not even firing on the freighter when it was in range of the capital ship and the escort was not. To quote an officer on the case: "It looks as if the target was the escort, not the freighter."

Neither the captain of the freighter nor the captain of the escorting AEG-77 class ship were available for comments.