What happens when a ship of former human military that has gone into psychosis and turned pirate, meets up and goes after a pax humanis ship? Worse, neither side really cares about their own lives, and barely cares about anyone else's lives either. -- Anon Guest
[AN: Pax Humanis agents aren't usually allowed loose because they're all serial killers and inherently dangerous]
It would have been too cliche to rename their ship the Bounty, and they all agreed on that. What they ended up renaming it, after they spaced the corporate lickspittles rationing air, was the Betrayed. Then they went on a rampage, after every corporate ship they could find, and anything that looked like a corporate ship. Taking everything they wanted and scattering the rest into the endless gulfs.
They hid the Betrayed in an asteroid field between sorties. Tracking any potential victims by their longest scanners. They only attacked the easiest targets, the richest targets, and rarely gifted any mercy.
Until they found something that was too good to be true, and too rich to pass up.
Limping along on one steering engine, over capacity with a wealth of food, plants, useful metals they could repair the Betrayed with. Less life signs aboard than their own crew.
It was, of course, a trap.
The target ship was obviously bait, and the switch was that the life signs inside were all Pax Humanis agents. Armed to the teeth with their favourite blades. Which had no energy signiatures and didn't immediately register as weaponry.
It was a bloodbath.
The few that survived were glad to face Galactic Alliance therapy.
[Photo by Kaptured by Kasia on Unsplash]
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That's a terrifying mental image. Pax Humanis members vs Pirates who were once military and no longer give an eff about their own survival? Anyone who saw such a fight... would be horrified!