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Please note that boarding a ship with marines is considered a hostile act.
This option was only mentioned for the sake of completeness and as a purely theoretical exercise. The writers and publishers of this publication have no personal experience of this act and, even if we did, do not condone it.
Claiming
Any abandoned ship can be claimed by sending a pilot to claim the ship (if claiming a small or medium ship) or docking and assigning a captain to command the ship (if claiming an abandoned capital ship).
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