Ambitious Profit

Observers Log 2016-EA:
Ships and planets occupied by a single species are the usual entertainment, especially when they make contact with a new species. The ship seldom went where our projections indicated. Then they crossed paths with 2018F.
Tagging their ship only helped track them for a period of time. Then it would disappear. The ship and crew would reappear on a different spacecraft with the same name. It seemed that they were drawn to, and usually involved in some conflict.
Not even the upheavals in the Engineers Alliance could account for their actions.