Dark Star Pirates
A band of pirates found in the Arcturus galaxy. They are unusual for their use of advanced technology, typically stolen from other factions. A technology they developed themselves, however, is incredible use of Spatial Rifts. All their home areas are completely surrounded by rifts, disallowing anyone else from entering.
Although the Hyperion Federation have RCWDs (Rift Capable Warp Drives), they still find it difficult to traverse Spatial Rifts. Especially when there are well-armed pirates on the other side.
Their starships are often made using stolen technology from the Republic of Miasi and Alti Dominion, borrowing the rapid strike doctrines of the Miasi, as well as the rapid fire railguns of the Alti.
The pirate faction also likes to take people from other factions and enslave them, seeing their own species, Van'Dri, as superior.
The Dark Star Pirates was formed from the ancient Van'Dri Confederated Planets after the Xadia drones attacked them for unknown reasons, destroying almost all of their planets and leaving them confined within a small space. To defend themselves against future Xadia drone attacks, they fired a number of slipspace bombs around their final star clusters, ensuring their territory was entirely cut off from the rest of the universe so that the only way to reach them was to bypass the spatial rift, which very few factions can do. This promptly caused even the Xadia war drones to fall out of reality. Now, though, the fabric of space supporting their home system clusters is drifting further and further from that of the rest of the universe, which could result in the birth of an entirely new universe altogether. This could well cause the entire area to be made inaccessible without also making use of extremely complex Subspatial Starship technology to dive into or out of higher dimensions while simultaneously using RCWD drives which are already very complex and energy intensive.
Although the Hyperion Federation have RCWDs (Rift Capable Warp Drives), they still find it difficult to traverse Spatial Rifts. Especially when there are well-armed pirates on the other side.
Their starships are often made using stolen technology from the Republic of Miasi and Alti Dominion, borrowing the rapid strike doctrines of the Miasi, as well as the rapid fire railguns of the Alti.
The pirate faction also likes to take people from other factions and enslave them, seeing their own species, Van'Dri, as superior.
The Dark Star Pirates was formed from the ancient Van'Dri Confederated Planets after the Xadia drones attacked them for unknown reasons, destroying almost all of their planets and leaving them confined within a small space. To defend themselves against future Xadia drone attacks, they fired a number of slipspace bombs around their final star clusters, ensuring their territory was entirely cut off from the rest of the universe so that the only way to reach them was to bypass the spatial rift, which very few factions can do. This promptly caused even the Xadia war drones to fall out of reality. Now, though, the fabric of space supporting their home system clusters is drifting further and further from that of the rest of the universe, which could result in the birth of an entirely new universe altogether. This could well cause the entire area to be made inaccessible without also making use of extremely complex Subspatial Starship technology to dive into or out of higher dimensions while simultaneously using RCWD drives which are already very complex and energy intensive.
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