Void Raiders

Pirate faction of the Arcturus galaxy. It was founded by a large group of most Arcturus native races, thus, it has no main species.
Although they raid primarily defenceless civilian starships, the Void Raiders will modify them with improvised weapons. 
They will almost always enslave anyone captured, taking everything that person has. As slaves have proven very useful to the pirates, they prioritise trying to keep the people in the ship alive. 
This is done by immobilizing the ship by shooting it in the engines and weapons, if any.
Because they are poorly equipped, the raiders need to be very careful around those ships escorts, especially dedicated military ships which sometimes take up the role of piracy suppression. The pirates often need to deploy probes to scout because the possibility that a military ship would be nearby - especially considering the largely superior radar of their enemy - is far too great to ignore. 
However, they have become very used to the areas of space they patrol as well as all civilian traffic. They can predict in many cases where a fleet will end up after several minutes and avoiding police and military forces.
Furthermore, many star nations of Arcturus largely ignore the pirates as a threat because of sheer arrogance. As such, despite their poorly equipped nature, the void raiders is still a powerful, galaxy wide, piracy organised crime organisation.
They particularly like stealing enemy technology. Anything advanced enough can help massively reduce the technological edge. The pirates can very easily detect starships of the Hyperion Federation due to the massive energy signature. The pirates have learned to avoid HF ships as they can detect ships from superluminal distances unlike any other civilization in the galaxy.

Type

Illicit, Pirate Crew

Alternative Names

VR