There's a few layers to the problem I see here.
The targets are not wanted: What should be a hard-to-stomach Wet Work Mission is displayed as a legal kill contract - the mission type looks like a "kill pirates mission" and not like a "kill innocent civilians mission" despite the targets having a Clean legal a status - which in itself is also really strange: this is a pirate faction taking people prisoner; this doesn't sound legal at all xD it was such a good step to use a different icon and color to differentiate between legal and illegal missions - but it isn't used here.
If the faction is hostile to you (because it's a pirate faction and you've been destroying a bunch of their ships for a while) and they fire on you, their status does not change from Clean to Wanted, even if Report Crimes Against Me active - so you can't even retaliate without getting a bounty on your head.
As my bug report tickets just time out without even getting confirmed, I'll just put this here - mostly just venting my frustration; not expecting a solution or anything like that - though, still, maybe a bit of a fuss about it might draw enough attention on it so it gets ironed-out.
The targets are not wanted: What should be a hard-to-stomach Wet Work Mission is displayed as a legal kill contract - the mission type looks like a "kill pirates mission" and not like a "kill innocent civilians mission" despite the targets having a Clean legal a status - which in itself is also really strange: this is a pirate faction taking people prisoner; this doesn't sound legal at all xD it was such a good step to use a different icon and color to differentiate between legal and illegal missions - but it isn't used here.
If the faction is hostile to you (because it's a pirate faction and you've been destroying a bunch of their ships for a while) and they fire on you, their status does not change from Clean to Wanted, even if Report Crimes Against Me active - so you can't even retaliate without getting a bounty on your head.
As my bug report tickets just time out without even getting confirmed, I'll just put this here - mostly just venting my frustration; not expecting a solution or anything like that - though, still, maybe a bit of a fuss about it might draw enough attention on it so it gets ironed-out.