Vigor suddenly destroyed my station...

[Reidquat]

I played the Vigor start, and have had a station in Auroras Dream for a while, just a placeholder station really. Anyway - the Vigor destroyed it. I have good rep with them and only a few of their ships are hostile, but those few appeared and proceeded to destroy my station.
Fair enough, It's only a station, maybe they are just venting about something, maybe some bad Space Fuel and I get that, wasn't me but so it goes, but no messages at all that seem related. I am a bit confused as to why this might have happened.
Any ideas?

[Rei Ayanami]

Did the station produce anything that is illegal in VIG space? Food supplies, water, etc.
Did you enter their scrapyard area are a and they got angry at you?

[Reidquat]

Did the station produce anything that is illegal in VIG space? Food supplies, water, etc.
Did you enter their scrapyard area are a and they got angry at you?

No to the first one, possibly one of my ships did something repulsive while I was looking the other way.
I did load up the previous auto-save which was about 15 minutes before it happened to see if I could catch whatever it was, but it didn't happen in the fifteen minutes or so I was watching it - everyone flying around like peaceful angels... so I have gone back to the save where it did happen so I can legitimately have a vendetta against the Vigor.

Still, I do wonder what it was...

[Nanook]

Did you have an Argon-style habitat on that station? If so, it would require food rations to be delivered and stored there. If VIG detected food rations or water on the station, or even in a docked ship, it could set them off.

I once had a station in that same sector, gave it an Argon Dormitory and set to it purchase food rations for my workers. I was even buying food rations from VIG. But once they discovered food rations on the station, they surrounded it with swarms of fighters and proceeded to attack it. The solution to this was to build a non-Argon habitat and have it supplied with the appropriate food from a source outside VIG space (since water is also illegal so you can't build a food producing station anywhere within VIG space).

[Reidquat]

Did you have an Argon-style habitat on that station? If so, it would require food rations to be delivered and stored there. If VIG detected food rations or water on the station, or even in a docked ship, it could set them off.

I once had a station in that same sector, gave it an Argon Dormitory and set to it purchase food rations for my workers. I was even buying food rations from VIG. But once they discovered food rations on the station, they surrounded it with swarms of fighters and proceeded to attack it. The solution to this was to build a non-Argon habitat and have it supplied with the appropriate food from a source outside VIG space (since water is also illegal so you can't build a food producing station anywhere within VIG space).

I didn't have a habitat, but illegal goods sounds like the culprit - someone docked with some food or something, and it escalated from throwing donuts to energy weapons...

[lordmuck]

Why is food illigal?

[Raptor34]

Did you have an Argon-style habitat on that station? If so, it would require food rations to be delivered and stored there. If VIG detected food rations or water on the station, or even in a docked ship, it could set them off.

I once had a station in that same sector, gave it an Argon Dormitory and set to it purchase food rations for my workers. I was even buying food rations from VIG. But once they discovered food rations on the station, they surrounded it with swarms of fighters and proceeded to attack it. The solution to this was to build a non-Argon habitat and have it supplied with the appropriate food from a source outside VIG space (since water is also illegal so you can't build a food producing station anywhere within VIG space).

I thought they only cared about food production and transport? And not about having actual stores.

[Starlight_Corporation]

Why is food illigal?

Food & Water is illegal in Vigour space because the Vigour Syndicate is a pirate organization that wants to control the essentials needed by the Riptide Rakers (they're another faction in the Avarice system that can only be reached through Vigour space)

[Imperial Good]

Once you are at +20 reputation with VIG and complete the promotion ceremony, you are automatically given a licence to move ice, water and food rations around Windfall and Avarice.

The restriction only applies to food rations and various food related intermediates. VIG is fine with you moving medical supplies and food of non-argon races around.

VIG is a pirate faction. As such they will try to pirate your traders and stations if reputation is sufficiently low. Sufficiently high reputation prevents them from pirating you. This logic applies to all pirates, including VIG, FAF, YAK, FRF, SCA, BUC, e.t.c. which can all be made to stop pirating you through story choices and gaining reputation. FAF might be bugged a bit currently, with their missions not spawning.

Make sure to pay VIG/RIP a licence for your station plot. Not owning a station plot is likely to cause some hostilities.

It is also possible that they tried to pirate your assets nearby your station and the resulting hostile state escalated. The solution in this case is to keep raising reputation until VIG stops pirating you.

[lordmuck]

Why is food illigal?

Food & Water is illegal in Vigour space because the Vigour Syndicate is a pirate organization that wants to control the essentials needed by the Riptide Rakers (they're another faction in the Avarice system that can only be reached through Vigour space)

Ohhhhh I see

[LameFox]

I thought the point of illegal food in VIG space was that they have a monopoly on selling it. Why would they attack a station for holding it...? They can't sell it if none survive buying it.

[Nanook]

I thought the point of illegal food in VIG space was that they have a monopoly on selling it. Why would they attack a station for holding it...? They can't sell it if none survive buying it.

Good question, but it seems like it's only player stations that may be affected, since I've never observed VIG attacking RIP stations, their main customers. It's possible it's an unintended consequence of using the same algorithms as is used for other illegal wares, since spacefuel and spaceweed factories are occasionally attacked for having those wares onboard. Just a guess.