Once the news started to spread among the trading vessels and the various companies that had pending orders from the Volga, the entire Alliance data network was flooded with speculation and gossip about humans.
They had only recently been recognized as an advanced species and were fast-tracked to a deal with the Alliance, but just yesterday, without any sort of warning, they had taken offence to something that the Volga had done and, in a single day, crushed the entire species.
It was unthinkable. Not even the Hunters were known to crush nations in a day. The Reavers knew full well that the Hunters were even more capable of doing it than they were, but they had learned long ago that it was more trouble than it was worth.
They didn't want to hold and govern other species' planets. They didn't even want to govern their own planets, but they hadn't found anyone worthy of doing it for them. They just wanted to go hunting.