So, Federation miliitary are prank pirates, right ?

Passing by Sol, I decided to see Capital ships. I chosed the one orbiting Mars.
I'm Ensign, got the Sol Permit, Friendly with Mother Gaia faction, allied with Federation, I'm in unarmed and unshielded Dolphin.
I was just here to take some tourist pictures, stayed only 39 seconds here because of mayhem from protecting squadron (protecting what, your capital ship is unbeatable, and immortal, remember ? except with thargoids)
So, they opened fire without warning (expected a message like approaching dangerous zone in SRV).
Ok, get back to a Mercury station directly, my bad, sorry to interrupt your flying little things...
If I look at logs, I see ... nothing ressembling army communications :

21:08:39 : This is not a drill (ow wait, i'm not a serious thing, you know)
21:08:44 : One of them, Johnson, is a novice and make mistakes... (ok, that happens, everybody make mistakes)
21:09:13 : under attack (hey, you scratched my painting - and almost 30% of my unshielded hull by the way, no warning)
21:09:18 : A last message from CS : "We had fun, time to finish him" (what ? you only fired 4 beams, you hadn't time for fun, i'm sure)
and destroyed...

We had fun ??? army men ? mercenaries is a better word, pirates, terrorists, maybe. Glorious Federation Protectful Army : nay !
Is this the king of roleplay you put in the game ? Let's go to the furthest arm of galaxy in unexplored territory, this kind of npc interaction is the pitiest thing to be done.

mmm, and to have fun, I'm going with my imperial courrier (lower rebuy) to visit an Imperial Capital ship with my Duke rank. let's see if they kill with no warning there... Achenar, here I come ! (famous last word)
 
When I visited the capital ship in Sol some time ago, I got a warning to leave but there were other capital ships that didn't mind tourists, not sure if that was a bug or their behaviour changed. I didn't like the military interdictions in which the ship immediately leaves without scanning either, does that still happen?
 
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Yeah, likely OP didn't see the warning, which given the Comms server's recent habit of falling asleep on the job isn't that big a stretch - it might not even have been delivered (in a timely manner). I expect the same or similar will happen if the OP approaches the Cap Ship in Achenar.
 
Your Imperial capital ship will do exactly the same to you as the Fed one did - shoot you with little or no warning.

The only time you can get close to a cap ship without getting shot to pieces is in a CZ.
 
OP, just so I undersand what happened: You decided to approach a Capital Ship whilst it is on the 34th Century equivalent of Active Duty, of course they are going to shoot you, to the Captain of the big ship you posed a threat, no matter how trivial you think you are. Heck you were probably a training run for the new escort pilots :D

Seriously just have a think about it. I know ED is a game and not real life but certain aspects of the game modeled on real life reactions and situations. Do you think you could jump in a 30ft cruiser and sail around a USN aircraft carrier when it is on mission without being challenged and warned away?
 
Dropped into Sol myself recently. Got some great shots of me in my sidewinder literally sitting on the cap ship at earth. No warnings no shots just great to see my first cap ship up really close. Only thing that shot me was a griefer in his souped up Mamba At Mars !
 
Dropped into Sol myself recently. Got some great shots of me in my sidewinder literally sitting on the cap ship at earth. No warnings no shots just great to see my first cap ship up really close. Only thing that shot me was a griefer in his souped up Mamba At Mars !

They don't bother shooting sidewinders... the ammunition costs more than the target.
 
Not long ago I flew right up to the capital ship orbiting Sol with no issues. I even parked my Krait literally inside its superstructure and went to refill my coffee and such. No problems at all.

I am an Admiral though. :D

In the past I have gotten the "warnings to leave" and been swarmed by Vultures but not lately. It kinda makes me want to swing by and see if things have changed since the update.

Edit: I meant the cap ship orbiting Earth.

Edit 2: The one orbiting Mars will sure enough light your Asp up! I was in a strong and fast enough ship to get out unscathed but all the patrol ships went red and came after me like I was a common heathen.
 
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Earth is just a theme park/historical visitor attraction so of course you can get selfies there, the Presidential dynasty and their glee club are on Mars anybody not a member of the family is going to get short shrift there.
 
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