Then there is the question, how tracking is done. Maybe the huntship has
drones or other subcrafts as mobile eyes.
The bounty hunter has to get specific individuals, not broad
classes of ships. Big, space-capable drones won't do. Little
spy drones are another issue. VXii24, VR remote controls.
If ships are likely to have IFF, or if there is something else that allows
scanning for a specific ship (the drive has some signature exhaust, that
only changes if you replace certain engine parts) it could work.
And the latter allows for some adventuring, with inventing inconspicious
ways to replace thoose parts, or spotting someone else doing it.
Or it might drop missles/mines that wait for a specific ship and then
attack/disable it.
Autonomous precision attack? What if it fries a passenger
liner? But it could be a SALH missile, obsolete for most
military purposes, but highly accurate.
If it attacks the wrong ship, it was the mine of your competitor. I
suppose thoose mines will be entirely legal. They might be allowed remote
controlled like Taveller missles, but then they could be jammed and you
can cover a smaller territory, before you run into problems with timelag
in communications. So there is some incentive to illegally modify them, if
the colour of the bounty hunters hat permits it.
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