What's a Ship Doing Out Here?

(Image source is Star Fox Zero by Nintendo, exact artist unknown)

Reports of piracy have been increasing rapidly in the area around a large asteroid field. As such, you have shut down all nearby merchant lanes and deployed a ship to patrol the area with orders to intercept any ship seen approaching or leaving the field. Near the end of a quiet patrol, the ship's sensors pick up a relatively large ship (890 meters in length) approaching the asteroid field. After following an intercept course, you get close enough to make visual contact. The ship appears to be heavily armed, yet it does not seem to be trying to run away like the other pirate vessels you've encountered.

(Image source is Star Fox Zero by Nintendo, exact artist unknown)

Reports of piracy have been increasing rapidly in the area around a large asteroid field. As such, you have shut down all nearby merchant lanes and deployed a ship to patrol the area with orders to intercept any ship seen approaching or leaving the field. Near the end of a quiet patrol, the ship's sensors pick up a relatively large ship (890 meters in length) approaching the asteroid field. After following an intercept course, you get close enough to make visual contact. The ship appears to be heavily armed, yet it does not seem to be trying to run away like the other pirate vessels you've encountered.