New forum members can't directly link images untill after a few posts, in order ot prevent spambots and such.
However Eric appears to have fixed the image link for you
![Cheesy :D](https://aurora2.pentarch.org/Smileys/classic/cheesy.gif)
I'm not sure what's going on with your error message sadly.
You could try turning on space master mode and checking the NPR,s ship design, perhaps theres a badly designed/broken sensor, or amm or something.
edit: I'm not entirely sure how to check their ships, short of space mastering in a high speed boarding ship.