I find it exceedingly curious

[Boss]

Rarely get pirates in the Taus, thank God. Even if we did, there's enough IMG fighters in the area to hire.

Woot for Powermining, Inc.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.