More than 220,000 pilots have signed a petition calling for an immediate inquiry into the lack of "anti-collision lights" on starships and the lack of emergency lighting on system authority ships.
Jenson Zanetti, chairman of the Pilot's Federation Safety Board stated: "Most pilots will, at some point in their careers, be struck by either an authority or private vessel they did not see, something which can be disastrous for all parties. If these proposals are implemented, we predict an order of magnitude decrease in the amount of fatal collisions in and around space stations."
The petition calls for all system authority vessels to be fitted with priority vehicle lighting equipment to assist pilots in visually identifying these important craft. The petition also calls for "anti-collision lights" to be fitted to all starships. According to the petition, these would come in the form of green lights on a ship's starboard side, red lights on their port sides, yellow lights on the bottom of their bows, white lights on the tops of their sterns and would include the lights flashing to signify the ship's direction of travel.
The petition concludes by stating that these lights only need to be operational within a station's no-fire zone and when the ship's main lights are active.
CMDR Devenish
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