OMFG HE'S IN A KESTREL! That's a ship from Escape Velocity, like THE ship from EV. It's in every game (to my knowledge), and it's the only ship you can buy in S7evn, the end-game system of EVN. Fun fact, i guess.

Authors a nice guy he came and gave me gas when I was stranded.

So I was checking out the far north in a very fast ship (I even dropped all weapons to get more turning speed) and then I found this NPC happily taking on a whole swarm of pirates without dying.

[Screenshot] Found the author ingame