Finally some discussion. I think bounties would be awesome and kinda what i was going for.

You could put a bounty on a ship captain and Dust mercs could board his ship and kill him or accept a bigger payment from the marked captain to spare him.

the idea is legit just too many nay sayers on this forum.

if it was up to the nay sayers then we would be thrown stones at each other in DUST 515...come to think about they would say stones were over powered

You pretzelboys. If you ever managed to somehow penetrate the defenses of a suitably equipped Eve ship and manage to gain access to it (which seems kind of farfetched to me), and killed the captain after dealing with the ships internal defenses, you would live about 5 seconds before exploding in a beautiful fireball.
What do you really think you would do if you took over a ship? Raid the liquor closet and throw a party? No, the ship would turn red to all other pilots occupying the system. While you are bustin out the champagne, the ship is sitting motionless in space as every other ship in the system warps to it, locks and fires a plethora of armaments at it that obliterate it almost instantly.
If you have some silly notion that once you took over the ship, you could fly it; well that caused uncontrollable laughing fits for me. The only way you are going to get to fly an Eve ship is to play Eve.
This thread is just silly. It's a nice daydream for Dust players; especially for those that have never played Eve but, it's not gonna happen.

Holding a ship for ransom. ROFL! The systems local populace might let you live for a few minutes just for the amusement of hearing you make your demands before they simply destroy the ship and all of the naive Dust players in it.

Killing the 'Captain' wont do a hell of alot. The ships are run by capsueleers. We kill off our Capts and crews everyday just to check fits.

The idea that you can board a ship, through deductive reasoning, one can only assume that others can defend the ship.

Good to know. If there are 556 ship types each one should get an individual map. Yes, that would be a lot of maps.

In the future someone will make a game with ship boarding that should be fun to play. Like the opening of the very first Star Wars movie. There could be a capture the princess contract. The forum has too many for my tastes, but I like games with a princess or two...

Until such time...

Capture the Amarr queen... and make her breakfast?