Board Thread:Off-Topic/@comment-8043224-20130419101611/@comment-758892-20130419120007

If you have a decent shield and booster, there's not much risk in not paying the pirates. If they're not "parked" right in front of the station, you can usually just steak past them and dock at the station before they shoot you down. In my last run (difficulty hard), I bought a Polytron Booster early on and in 9 times out of 10 I got through to the station without being even close to destruction.

If on the other hand you pay the bribe, you're free to travel between the Loma stations until you leave the system. So no, docking at a station does not require another bribe.