Starfaring Pirates

Try as some interstellar governmental systems might to police the galaxy, space is still an immense place with many deep corners in which smugglers, thieves, and other ne’er-do-wells can hide. Countless pirates haunt the space lanes, yet in the last few months a new group unaffiliated with the Free Captains has made considerable news in the Pact Worlds. These remarkably efficient android pirates, their faces replaced with eerie red metal plates matching their ship’s hull, target trading vessels and other starships with valuable cargo moving between the Pact Worlds and the Veskarium. Named the Crimson Crew by media outlets, these pirates typically steal easy-to-sell spoils but always interrogate captured crew members to see if they know anything about something called “the Butterfly Matrix.” What this might be, and why the pirates want information on it, remains a mystery, but authorities of both the Pact Worlds and the Veskarium have been quietly looking for ways to bring the pirates to justice. Rumors place the pirates’ headquarters on one of the many settlements in Preluria’s rings but also suggest it’s been cloaked to near invisibility.

Notable Members

• Xander Grin