Captain, it's come to our attention that the New Republic has been conducting training exercises for its fleet in the Bimmiel Sector, near the Imperial border. Your vessel, the Marathon, is instructed to proceed to the Sector and conduct a series of long-range sensor sweeps; as many as are necessary to identify a vessel which, in your determination, you would have no difficulty in capturing. You are to capture this vessel, for violating Imperial airspace. Is this clear, Captain?

Walther Thaddeus Fiske
Imperial Minister of State