The Merchant's Voyage

After arriving at Port Tharsis, a spin habitat in the Ashford system, the Merchant and his crew spent five Earth-Standard days recovering from their voyage from Zaets in the FRZT, while their cargo was unloaded. During this time, the Merchant consulted his commercial advisory, last updated 38 hours beforehand when a relay probe was sent through the gateway from Morobe. Based on the information therein, he decided to purchase 1400 tons of Mars-built particle beams, and 600 tons of military-grade space suits. He would have preferred to wait for more particle beams to be shipped in from Earth-space, but waiting even this long was cutting into his profits. His Merchantman was naturally much smaller than the cargo tugs that transported the bulk of cargo across human space, but its superior speed and armament made it better suited for carrying high-value cargo, and its lower operating cost made it feasible for a wealthy individual to own it outright.
After undocking, the Merchantman put sufficient distance between itself and the Station with maneouvring thrusters, before beginning a 1.3-G burn with its torch drive, making for the gateway to Morobe. The relatively high speed of acceleration was not itself cost-effective, but the Merchant was certain the particle beams would sell for more than enough to make up for it, and he was hoping to purchase some particularly profitable cargo in Morobe before it was gone. The gateway was also in a particularly distant part of its orbit from Port Tharsis, so he had to make up time, lest he get stuck in the system when the next planned outage of the gateway ocurred in ten days.
150 hours into the voyage, he brought the ship about to begin a deceleration burn, as it was currently slightly over the legal speed limit for traversing a wormhole. 20 hours later, sensors detected that a 5000 ton ship on approach to the wormhole had suddenly veered off course and began accelerating toward the gateway station itself. 15 minutes later, after several unanswered messages from the gateway station, with no change in trajectory, and the ship getting dangerously close to the station, several laser batteries opened fire on the vessel. They quickly disabled its engines before targeting part of its midsection, superheating the hull and creating an explosion of gas that sent the vessel on a new trajectory that would miss the station entirely. Two small corvettes began moving to match velocity with the single escape pod that had launched from the ship, no doubt to arrest whoever was inside on suspicion of terrorism. In all his years, the Merchant had never witnessed such an event in person, and wondered whether this was the result of a freak accident or truly an attempted terrorist attack.
60 hours later, the Merchant's ship passed through the wormhole, instantly transported several lightyears in a single moment and arriving in the Morobe system. After coasting for 30 minutes to put sufficient distance between his ship and the wormhole station, the Merchant ordered his helmsman to begin burning once again, setting a course for orbital ring around New Lae.