Black box for everyone's ship.

There comes the time in which you wish to launch an investigation to determine what went wrong in those last minutes prior to the ship destructions, something that becomes really hard to do when there is no black box recording the events for later analysis at the appropriate station.

Sometimes the technicians at the station stumble into incredible damage done to my ship and they do not believe my tales of heroic scapes, even with the damage done to my ship presented as evidence, they even accused me to crash with an asteroid and trying to cover up with a combat story, the nerve of this technicians.

Then tragedy strikers, yesterday I was performing my duty in Imperial space fighting pirates for the glory of the Empire, at some point my shields were going low I knew I should had left the area a repair my ship, I knew I should go and claim my 2.4 million credits from previous kills, but then I decided to kill one last Anaconda, "For the glory of the empire!" my shields went down but Anaconda was at 10%, I knew I could finish it without shields, but then something strange happened, my FDL was taking more damage than it should, with my ship at 40% I check the radar and there he was, a player in a Cobra was shooting me, not the anaconda, at this point I had no option I had to run, but I did not make it lost my ship, lost my unclaim bounties, and paid the insurance, and of top of that my superiors at the Station did not believe my story, they told me that I probably got caught in the gravity of the sun when trying to fuel scoop, come on I admit I lost my firt Sidewinder to the Sun's gravity one, but I came a long way since my days as a Sidewinder pilot, anyway I wish to place a bounty on the head of the commander that killed me in such dishonorable manner, I demand retribution, I must have my revenge, but there is a problem, in the head of the battle I never actually check for the name of the pilot responsible for this coward attack, if only I had a black box, if I only I could retrieve the logs from the last moments of my ship, then I could have something to show to my superior, then I could make public the name of the commander whose head I want in a plate, I should say his name and sooner or later he would die "Vallar Morghulis" Commanders, fly safely.
 
Doesn't the insurance screen say who killed you?

Not that I'd be opposed to the black box idea, preserving data and transactions if you manage to find it and scoop it up before someone else does.
I'd really like to steal other bounties/exploration datas. Brace for incoming griefer accusations.
 
I love the idea of a black box, but not necessarily for the same reasons.

Being able to scoop up a pilot's information (be they bounty vouchers / exploration data etc) is a great idea, but that pilot should NOT be able to claim those vouchers since they were issued against a specific commander's name - and the black box should reflect this. However, this black box, depending on the value of the data stored, should have an official 'ransom value' attached to it.

For example, if a commander racked up 1 million credits in bounty vouchers, but was then destroyed by crashed in to an asteroid, a savvy pilot might scoop it up and ransom it back to the commander for the set fee (50% of the value, for instance).

There may need to be other considerations. Another potential example: if a pirate destroys a ship - should that ship's black box log who killed the pilot, therefore nullifying the official ransom fee and making the transaction impossible?

Who knows - just throwing ideas around :)
 
I really like this idea. :)

Explorers end up being out for a long time and collecting vast amounts of data, and it can end up being worth a lot of credits. The last known coordinates of someone that was destroyed, or got stranded and had to self-destruct, could be posted to bulletin boards as a mission to retrieve that persons black box. The person retrieving the black box could receive a percent of the total worth of the data for retrieving it.
 
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