First, a general greeting to all in the forums - I'm relatively familiar with the site, but have a general dislike of large forums. You seem like a civil bunch, so what the heck.

Second, I seem to recall reading something about being able to (for example) pursue a group of pirates back to their base, and destroy said base, ending the pirate threat. I was wondering what then happens to the pirates from the base... I understand they aren't all individual characters, but if you don't actually wage a war against the pirate presence in a system, but manage to destroy a key base, would they all just disappear? Or would activity just eventually drop off.

Also, can you destroy the bases of the 'good guys'? Say, Sugarland, and mess with the balance of power? I understand destroying any base would be very difficult, but it's a hypothetical question.

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"What is left when honor is lost?"
- Pubilius Syrus