My guess would be that any planets Torch even remotely suspects of being linked to MALign will soon suffer mysterious impacts from small, say missile sized, objects traveling at insanely high speed...[/quote]
More likely they are going to be visited by Torch Marines backing up a "diplomatic mission".
It might also be interesting to have Torch warships (those not quite useless Torch Frigates) show up and start collecting freighters which have been identified as using the various slaver stations. Call it pro-active anti-slavery and commerce building operation.
We had an example of the raid in COG. Torch and Beowulf Biological Survey have been gathering information and data, now take it another step. The frigates don't carry enough people to put crews on captured ships but they could be acompanied by a small freighter that does have capacity for both serious boarding parties and replacement crew.
Any ship with the equipment of a slaver is automaticaly a slaver even if they don't have any slaves on board so if you have identified (by name but more importantly by tactical signatures) a slave transporting ship, you can go after it even if it is presenlty transporting only legitimate cargo. Seize the ship, deal with the crew (space or life sentence at hard labor on Torch as appropriate) and take the ship somewhere it can be retrofitted to remove the slaver equipment reconfigure (actual rebuilding) to return it to a more standard design. I would suggest Erwhon to get the work done.
This has the advantage of both dealing with present and "former" slavers and taking more transport capasity out of the SL's use plus providing Torch with it's own merchant fleet.
If Torch can't staff the new acquisitions, they could always sell them through Erwhon or even to Haven
