KrankysFirebrand48
The hauling ship is met with a formation that surrounds it in about 120º, with all the cannons from the whole fleet aimed at it.
Delta interdiction kicks in, preventing long-range communications or FTL through it, and soon two signals wash over the ship, one seems like some radar checking for lifeforms, and the other is a simple short-ranged message:
Greetings, people of the G.B.E.
You find yourselves in the middle of what some would call a "Political maneuver". We are a fearsome pirate gang known as the "Bloodletters", you may never have heard of us for we operate within the shadows.
We are explicitly against the G.B.E., and as such, we wish to take you hostage for political barganing so that they may change their way of living.
If you surrender your station and your crew, I swear as captain of my fleet, that not a single finger will be laid in harm of your crew, we aren't savages after all. But if you try to react, refuse, or escape our humble interdiction bubble...
You'll be killed immediatly.
I hope you consider well our offer.