A month had passed since the pirates' revelry in the Isomer Cluster.
A month had also passed since the Chosen's Homeworld sent out its distress signal.
Over that month, the enormous pirate fleet had descended on every one of their colonies, unleashing a grand feast of plunder.
The most ruthless of all was the pirate band led by Captain Nais.
As the largest and strongest pirate band still in existence, Captain Nais's Covert Transfer of Other People's Wealth Company had shouldered the main fighting alongside the Marauders.
Under the prebattle plan for dividing the spoils, the Marauders Tribe had been allotted one Gaia Planet, and Captain Nais's pirate band another. Black Needle and the other large pirate bands would share the last Gaia Planet, while the remaining three Orbital Habitats were divided among the smaller groups.
Once everything was over, each band headed for its allotted destination and began looting.
The Marauders remained their usual selves, maintaining their nomadic tribes' bottom line: they took resources but committed no further atrocities. The pirates, meanwhile, let themselves loose and stripped everything they could find.
Yet all of them expressed their respect for Captain Nais and his band.
Respect from a pack of utter criminals and villains.
The reason was simple: under Xi Yan's personal guidance, the pirates had thoroughly carried out the alien extermination order issued by the Lord of Humanity.
On the first day of their fleet's arrival, the Nais Pirate Crew demanded that the planet surrender immediately and hand over all its resources.
When refused, the fleet bombarded the colonial capital from orbit and coerced the local rulers into surrendering most of their resources.
The Nais Pirate Crew displayed an exceptional degree of professionalism. Some members seemed almost too professional, immediately infiltrating the planet and obtaining detailed intelligence, including the