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Chapter 7: Pirate Extermination
"Where now?"
While the Cruiser of the Bloodskull Pirates wasn't the biggest one around, it was relatively easy to get lost in the corridors, so Arcturus depended on Alice, who was projecting him the shortest path to the command center.
"Just out of curiosity, how much would this ship be worth?"
He asked because he was rather reluctant to leave the Cruiser behind; from designs and firepower, it was a Light Cruiser of some Type 2 Civilization, albeit not very advanced from everything that he had seen.
The spaceships from the majority of Type 2 Civilizations were fairly powerful and they were mostly used by either space pirates, Ravengers or Star Mercenaries.
Mostly because they were rather affordable, especially those of the lower specter of the Type 2 Civilization while being still fairly advanced.
And because the space pirates and Ravengers mainly operated in various lawless zones in the Galaxy or were focusing their criminal activities on various Type 1 Civilizations which didn't really have the power to repel them, they were most suitable for them.
"This ship has been identified to be a Light Cruiser from Nilianis Federation, a Type 2 Civilization from the edges of the North-Eastern Quadrant. The approximate price for this ship in its current state would be 50,000 Universal Credits in these ends, within the territories of less developed civilizations and nations, the price could be even twice or thrice of it."
Nothing like firm price everywhere in the Galaxy wasn't really a trend because every nation and race had a different level of technology, so it was only natural if he went with something like this to The Eternal Imperium of Asurya, he would get far less than if he.
For example, sold it to Type 1 Civilization, which would do everything to get their hands on more advanced technology.
When he finally arrived at the command deck of the Pirate Light Cruiser, he saw there were approximately fifteen pirates; all of them were human males with light brown skin and wearing ragtag armor like the other ones that Arcturus saw.
Though probably the captain looked more eyecatching, compared to the rest of the pirate crew, as he was more luxuriously clad than his underlings, not to mention he was also wearing some really basic primitive Exoskeleton.
Within the pirate crews, the leader and high-ranking pirates were the ones who had the best equipment of the entire crew. They would also get the best weapons and equipment that the band could get their hands on.
Before the captain of the Bloodskull Pirates could say anything, Arcturus dashed at him and before he could react, he stabbed his Power Sword into his neck, killing the pirate captain in one hit.
He didn't waste any seconds of ramblings of a dead man with his speech about how he would kill him and other shit. He read enough novels to know that it was an utter waste of time, so he attacked outright.
Now the captain was killed, the rest of the pirates panicked on the spot because there was no real chain of command for them if their leader was killed. The Exoskeletons were good, but they only enhanced the physical parameters, not the senses of the person, so they were typically inferior to genuinely physically augmented people.
It was not like it mattered because Arcturus didn't waste any moment and started swiftly attacking the other pirates who were armed with the basic weaponry they could find.
Neither of them even had some basic understanding of the weapon combat and slowly, they were all disposed of by him. With the pirates on the deck being killed, he didn't care about the rest that remained on the ship, as they were barging their way into the escape shuttles.
Probably thinking that they could still escape, so he ordered Alice to lock down the hangar and teleport the goods and contraband back to the Cargo Room of the Obscurus, before he started searching through the corpses of the pirates.
The ones that were on the command deck were, for sure, the higher-ups of the Bloodskull Pirates, so for sure, they would have better things than the common grunts.