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[Esna Pitoojee]

I think it's pretty clear that any kind of boarding operation would entail scrambling, webbing, neuting the ship out, possibly deliberately damaging navigational and thruster systems (depending on how intact of a state you care to recover the ship in) before you board it.

The real question in my opinion is how would shields and/or hardened armor surfaces interact with a boarding pod? Surely shields would have to be battered down first so that the boarding pod can actually make contact with the hull of the ship, but what would happen if shield integrity was momentarily re-stablished mid-boarding? Also, what about hardened armor surfaces - the boarding vessels would have to carry some fairly significant cutting equipment, on scale with much higher-power, weapons-grade systems, otherwise cutting through the armor could take hours.

[Repentence Tyrathlion]

Not strictly on topic, but not unrelated: I'm suddenly led to wonder about the mechanics of hijack-by-pod.  The concept of forcing a pilot to eject by whatever threatening means, and then plugging into it, will be familiar to any pirate here.  But what about the crew?  Sure a capsuleer replaces the command crew and helps to automate large amounts of the ship, but...

[Arnulf Ogunkoya]

Not strictly on topic, but not unrelated: I'm suddenly led to wonder about the mechanics of hijack-by-pod.  The concept of forcing a pilot to eject by whatever threatening means, and then plugging into it, will be familiar to any pirate here.  But what about the crew?  Sure a capsuleer replaces the command crew and helps to automate large amounts of the ship, but...

There are clearly measures preventing the crew from interfering with the capsuleer's control of the ship. If the wasn't the case then Ishukone HQ wouldn't be in such a mess.