Mention to the officer at the bar about our situation with the client who wants us to blow up the ship. See if the officer will help us get the location of the client. The client gave us proof since he gave us definite markings on our cargo ship. Buy him another drink, get codes out of his or something.
"Let me get this straight; you think a client contacting you about destroying a ship is the same guy responsible for hacking some drones. Things, things are never that simple, almost always there is something more going on. Me I'm used to it, I'm military being an uninformed pawn is part of the job description. A few tips for hiss situation though; never accept a job about destroying something like this unless they can give you proof of ownership, you'd be surprised how often this
stolen ships tend not to actualy be stolen; if you expect wrong doing report it to the proper authorities and don't sellout/handover criminals to private citizens, no vigilantism, upholding the law and protecting the peace is our. The big problem these days isn't even pirates, it's this attidude of
oh we've got guns we don't need anthing like due process we can solve all our problems ourselves." he sighes heavily before launching into an angry rant "Every year space gets more violent, more dangerous because this vigilante bullshit winds up killing innocent people. Innocent people's families turn to vigilantism to avenege their fallen family rather than go through proper channels. It's an unending vicious cycle that continues to get worse ignored by the CoIW as they pose for the united sol league. Continued poseing that has me and my crew here guarding against impossible USL incursion instead of doing anything that's actualy useful,"
His new drink arrives and he gulps half of it down in one go.
This appears to calm him down almost instantly.
"I tell you what" he says suddenly relaxed again "You give me all the details of why you think this guys behind the drone thing and I'll pass them on to the head of station security, they'll find 'em in seconds. I'll get my guys and see if we can find this
extreamly dangerous cargo ship because it sounds like it's not something that's ok to ignore or leave to private citizens,"
(Note: I assumed you didn't want to tell him about the cargo ship you have no legal claim to and hasn't even be reported missing so that part was left out)