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Illid: I am late to this discovery, but I believe that there are reports of human pirates and

outposts still active in "dark space" of course the only ships going through there are the

empires, smugglers, and trade union ships trying to take short cuts.

Mayla: well, I have heard of dark space before, that's the sector of space that was heavily

ravaged by human weapons testing right?

Ridge takes a deep breath and says: that is partially true, there are planets there that

humans used for weapons testing, but the reason it is called the dark space is the fact that

communications from within do not reach outside, of course you can communicate easily

within.

For unknown reasons it is as if there is a bubble around that space that none can see and it

blocks communications from going through, and many methods have been devised to by

pass this, and only a few have succeeded but still it is such a old method that only the

empire has decided to fit their war ships and long range ships with the ability to do so.

Aside from black markets, you cannot find those devices and when you do they are

extremely expensive and are more trouble then they are worth unless your job is to

explore such space. As Illid said, human pirates still operate in such space; the empire

probably has major problems with them on a regular basis