THE AKKADESE
NIHIL BASESHIP
NAJRA-VA
"Show me everything."
Talon stroked the PATH engine fondly. Dark science may have unlocked its ancient secrets, but his crews had provided the fodder for initial tests. Not all of them had returned. Blood to fuel the cause. This was his legacy. While their traditions lived on in the outer reaches few were bold and cruel enough to walk in the Nihil's footsteps. War against the galaxy. He wanted to burn it all down.
"I do hope I'm not interrupting."
He struggled against a compulsion to eviscerate the frail little givin with his force pike. Cold reason prevailed. Vul Asar was the captain's personal surgeon and his talents went far beyond providing basic first aid or medical consultation. Although something of a slave himself for Kyber had conscripted the creature at blaster point, Doctor Asar found their 'arrangement' highly amenable just so long as the crew tolerated his grisly research.
"Speak."
"You are aware of course I have been consulting with the lord Tu'teggacha on cost effective procedures for rendering our labor stock more pliant..."
Offering a few grunts of acknowledgment here and there Talon endured the givin's lecture on how a prefrontal cortex could vary from species to species. These too frequent 'conversations' always ended the same; more test subjects. Flesh was cheap out here beyond known space if you knew where to find it. Few could track prey across the stars like Captain Kyber.
"Whatever you need, doc. Now burn out of here full sublight before I bleed you slow."
There was more for him to see of course. A ship like the Akkadese required near constant oversight especially among a crew of murderers and thieves. Kyber's armada formed part of a loose confederation between raiders either faithful to or looking to profit off the heathen priests. They were loyal to one another as much as pirates could be. Alliances were beginning to take shape and rivalries ignite. While their delving citadels and asteroid labor camps could not rival neo-Imperial manufacturing the great horde's overseers provided more than their fair share of raw material.
"What do the fates have to say?" his quartermaster Pharos asked when he returned to the bridge's shipwreck throne, "Shall we make ready to depart once the last crystals are offloaded?"
"Break out a few dozen casks of novanian grog and tell the cooks to toss some banthas on the spit. We're holding anchor awhile."
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