I was out trucking a load in my Freelancer when some not-so-upstanding citizens [captured me and put me in their] not-so-hot-smelling box. Am I stuck here until they sell me?asked by Headless Chook

So Chris has addressed this before, I think, but I figure for our new viewers, we can update you. You're not going to be forced to serve out a prison sentence or be stuck in a hold for a year while somebody just stops playing after they capture you. So what will happen is it will sort of diverge, and we know that's difficult immersion-wise, but sometimes you have to make allowances for gameplay. And in this case, you will go back to your starting base or your nearest base, nearest hangar, and then they will basically have cargo that is you. You don't have to play being captured.

And there'll be some penalty for that, right?

Yeah, there'll be effects to it, but you don't have to play it out.