Yang Bo was right to be cautious. Although the Pirate Alliance had all sorts of internal problems,
the enormous profits had kept this loose organization alive for so many years.
It was not merely about laundering stolen goods, but more often about targeting business rivals or political opponents.
That was why the Pirate Alliance needed to investigate its internal problems.
The organizations behind the elders of the Pirate Alliance Council had intelligence networks spread throughout the interstellar world.
The events of the past few years had steadily damaged the Pirate Alliance's reputation.
The Pirate Alliance was merely a loose platform.
Its ability to restrain the pirate groups beneath it was growing increasingly inadequate.
Moreover, the intelligence provided by the Pirate Alliance had repeatedly led to the destruction of pirate groups and major losses.
The various pirate groups were full of complaints about the Pirate Alliance.
After every failure, the Pirate Alliance would review how it had failed.
The conclusion was that someone had planted intelligence personnel within the Pirate Alliance.
However, the Pirate Alliance knew very little about the members within each pirate group.
The pirate groups would not reveal information about their own members either.
So it was currently unclear where the intelligence leaks were coming from.
This operation involving the Witch Pirate Crew and several other pirate groups was a test by the Pirate Alliance.
If the Witch Pirate Crew and the other pirate groups encountered no problems, it would prove that there were no Federation intelligence personnel within those pirate groups.
The Pirate Alliance would then repeat the same operation.
In other words, it would issue false missions to several other pirate groups.
Of course, the Pirate Alliance Council of Elders also had armed forces under its own control.
Otherwise, how could the Pirate Alliance Council of