The main pirate fleet has been tracked to the Hudson nebula near Barnard's Star and engaged by an NS fleet commanded by Windscorpion. The pirate fleet was destroyed in the encounter, its not known if the pirate fleet commander Akorian was among the losses. Windy said he was not among any prisoners or dead however some ships were vapourised.
Two NS ships were destroyed in the battle, which the pirates used TPMs in. The Indy 035-205 Implacable and the Solaris 037-103 Castor were the ships lost adding to the Freedom 041-206 Fury lost in an earlier battle.
Pirate forces still exist, the hunt and Operation Klondike continues.
