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The Star Pirate's Folly

📘The Star Pirate's Folly | Epilogue
Far beyond the orbits of the Outer Planets, the Leith Belt awaits.
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 34: Star-Crossed
In the era of nullsteel spacecraft capable of previously-impossible feats of agility, tactics have evolved to favor the side which can strike at just…
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 33: Traitor
The myriad cameras studding Wanderlust's hull provide a constant feed of the ship's physical integrity, while larger, more delicate long-range lenses…
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 32: Treasure
The advancement of wormhole stabilization through gate technology ultimately led to the destruction of those same interstellar gates during a brief and…
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 31: Fragments
The development of electroplated nullsteel enabled the efficient use of extremely thin layering to mask the mass of stronger, heavier metals on armored…
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 30: Steel
The Record is often touted as an objective, ironclad history of agreed-upon facts from a broad spectrum of individuals, events, and perspectives—but…
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 29: Ghosts
While there is much speculation about what remains of the old empire of Sol, even after fifty years the Luxar System hasn't re-established contact with…
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 28: Myra
Hardlight projections are proof of the Outer colonists' mastery of light and gravity, offering many versatile applications from tactile user interfaces…
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 27: Pressure
Contrary to the public perception of piracy, the vast majority happens not with spectacular battles but with social engineering, blackmail, and bribes…
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 26: Needs
Survival out in Styx is about determined resourcefulness, thinking ahead, and finding ways to wring luck from a stone.
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 25: Hostage
For decades, the largest coalitions of pirates have been pushed to the fringes of "civilized space," creating a relative safe haven of Core Planets…
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📘The Star Pirate's Folly | 24: Entrenchment
Fabricants are a controversial creation, their history rife with hotly debated conspiracies and mistrust. Yet their continued proliferation due to their…
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