Piracy, that ancient profession, had not vanished in the interstellar age. Instead, it had found a new lease on life.
In the boundless expanse of space, even the mightiest empire still had dark corners within its borders that the light of civilization could not reach.
The Shattered Star Region, with its dangerous celestial environment and little value for development, offered an ideal breeding ground for this particular crowd!
Even thousands of ships could disappear into its swarms of asteroids in the blink of an eye.
In ancient times, a place like this would have been rugged, inhospitable country with treacherous terrain.
Add in several bustling trade routes nearby, ripe for the picking, and it naturally attracted hordes of desperate outlaws who made their nests here and plundered far and wide!
The Shattered Star Region had no bright stars. Asteroids and celestial debris of all sizes filled the entire region, severely limiting radar equipment and making official antipiracy operations much harder.
The pirates knew the terrain better and fled whenever they could not win, giving the Wulf Empire authorities no end of headaches.
Whenever the Wulf Empire sent a massive force to pacify the Shattered Star Region, it could wipe out most of the pirates, but before long, they would spring up again.
Repeating such a thankless undertaking only wasted manpower and money. Thus, as long as the pirates did not go too far, the Wulf Empire turned a blind eye.
Over time, the place became a notorious pirate haven.
Nie Yun had traveled all this way not to help the Wulf Empire stamp out piracy, of course, but because he had his eye on the chaos here!
As expected, Kinlock had probably already reacted. In the coming days, he would surely send fleets to search relentlessly for Nie Yun and