The problem I have with this:
Where does the ship come from? If it is not an AI civilisation or your own civilisation, who created the ship? How can it exist without having been built? How can these spacefaring aliens exist if they have no homeworld?
It kinda breaks immersion, imho. In X4 at least every ship and every pilot is from an existing spacefaring civilisation.
Admittedly the same could be said for pirates. In X4 they are rejects from the other races and it could be said they stole their ships from other races, and they have some establised faction also.
And lastly, why not just have your own ship transport the shipment? Or maybe a private ship belonging to a civilian trader of your empire, who created the ship art your shipyard or that of an AI empire?
Where does the ship come from? If it is not an AI civilisation or your own civilisation, who created the ship? How can it exist without having been built? How can these spacefaring aliens exist if they have no homeworld?
It kinda breaks immersion, imho. In X4 at least every ship and every pilot is from an existing spacefaring civilisation.
Admittedly the same could be said for pirates. In X4 they are rejects from the other races and it could be said they stole their ships from other races, and they have some establised faction also.
And lastly, why not just have your own ship transport the shipment? Or maybe a private ship belonging to a civilian trader of your empire, who created the ship art your shipyard or that of an AI empire?