Benedict runs the ship's scanners over the Jamais-Nu. "Definitely a cargo freighter. You'd have to do some serious retrofitting to get that model to do anything else. She doesn't look so much as scratched; life support is still online. Parts of the data stream are corrupted, though. Could be any number of things. Faulty emitter array, magnetic field scrambling the drive, crew member overwriting part of the ship's memory with his erotic novel, maybe an encryption protocol. That's a fairly standard trick." The trick was to be vague enough that they assumed you were talking about being a lawyer and not, for instance, an Epsilon agent. It was an excellent lie, in that it was not, strictly speaking, a lie, and was also, speaking strictly, true.
"We'll have to do a manual environmental scan if you want more answers. I think the pressure suits should be safe now, the epoxy's had long enough to set."