In a galaxy that stretched millions of light years.

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A fleet of dark space ships with eye catching spherical curves whizzed through space. In this array of ships, a single humongous ship with a red banner of some weird creature stood out. This was the mothership of the fleet.

In it stood a tall handsome man with black hair, gray sideburns, a twirly moustache and a well-built figure who was barking out orders to his subordinates.

"Don't break the ranks, maintain the formation!"

With a stern expression and arms clasped behind the back, he excluded a natural air of authority. Naturally he had the status and power to back that as one of the Great Noble Pirates.

Unlike normal space pirates who are mostly uncultured and vile, the noble pirates were the very opposite and were rich and proud. They were also ranked high in society and held immense wealth and a network of connections with the elites of society, especially those who wanted their dirty work to be done.

Today they had a good harvest. They were able to capture a merchant ship that belonged to the alanska family, one of the richest financial groups of the Andromeda galaxy. While it might not seem like much of a loss for the financial group, it was a huge harvest for the pirates.

While Arthur stood there twirling his moustache fantasizing about how he was going to spend his fortune, a high ranking officer walked up to him in a slight hurry and reported.

"Sir Arthur, sector d seems to have found something quite interesting" with a playful expression; obviously in a good mood because of the harvest.

'hm?' exclaimed Arthur who was snapped out of his daze.

'Tell them to bring whatever that interesting thing Is here...and oh! perhaps I'll reward them if it's something better than the *harvest*, I'm sure they will have a fun time with that' , he said with a slight chuckle

"Ha ha I'm sure they will" the high-ranking officer responded with a smile and rushed off to instruct his subordinates.

'Well whatever it is I hope it won't take too long', Arthur said with a soft sigh.

It seemed that he was in luck today. The high-ranking superior returned with two other mid-rank officers and a cage minutes after their report.

"Sir, here is the weird entity or should I say the person that sector d found” the high-ranking officer reported.

'Well then, bring him out...I want to have a closer look at this person' replied Arthur.

Following his orders, the high-ranking officials and the 2 other officers helped bring out the 'boy' who was pitch black like the dark endless space. Arthurs fascination could be easily observed by the interesting expression he had as he observed 'its' unique appearance.

'It' looked nothing like a person but since its figure and characteristics were somewhat like a boy's, they regarded it as a male. The oddest and the most interesting thing was its cyan crystal eyes and a mysterious gem-like object embedded in 'its' head which had a similar colour to its eyes.

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'Hmmm this has to be my first time seeing something like this' Arthur said

'However this definitely does look like something that could sell well, problem being we have no idea what *it* is'

"Yes sir, after the short inspections that were conducted we can confidently tell there is no creature in our database that has anything resembling this otherworldly appearance. We could not even understand what type of life form it is."

Arthurs eyes gleamed with greed

'The rarer it is the better'

'It wont do well for the higher ups from marquise rank to get to know about the entity until we get more info on it'

The noble pirates hierarchy was absolute and a very good reasoning was needed to disobey orders from the higher ranks otherwise it could lead to great consequences from the Great Noble Pirate Alliance.

Suddenly his resolution became even firmer

'No the information about us finding this should not be leaked! I'm sure those higher ranks will try to use any means to covet this treasure, especially now that I'm about to rank up.

The world of the pirates were a very harsh one with enemies everywhere and it took extreme vigilance and experience to reach the status of a Noble.

However his luck seemed to run out as a officer rushed into the control room, almost stumbling and falling

"S-Sir Duke Marcus has ordered for you to meet him immediately in headquarters, he says there is something important to be discussed."

'DAMN IT!' Arthur raged internally

It took a couple of seconds for him to regain his composure as he calmly stood there calculating his next move. He could not show his anger outside and that would look like a rebels action for someone who could not recognize the situation.

'To think a goddamn Duke would snoop into my business, the rats have infiltrated deep this time. Whatever that entity undoubtedly has to be valued a lot.'

To the officers that didn't know about the internal conflicts, the situation seemed very strange as Arthur stood there silently with his eyes closed.

"P-perhaps he's trying contain his happiness to get the honour to meet a duke personally?" The officer that reported the news thought.

'Report back to the duke that it is my honour to get such an opportunity and that I will rush as fast as I can to the headquarters' said Arthur silently

"Yes sir!"

With the rushed footsteps of the informant fading away, Arthur quickly said to the remaining officers

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Arthur seemed satisfied with this planet as he ordered them to put 'it' in a pod. Meteor Battle pods unlike normal battle pods: meteor battle pods were only used by high-level warriors who could be dropped straight to a planet without being crushed by falling from high distances or getting incinerated by the atmosphere as the pod gets incinerated in the atmosphere itself due to its weak nature and the high-level combatant fall directly to the planet.

He wanted to use this pod cause he wanted 'it' to come in contact with the planet and did not want 'it' to be stuck in a normal battle pod as it can only be opened from the inside. He was sure that falling from a great height or getting incinerated but the atmosphere would cause no harm to it due to the various experiments conducted on it.

Following the orders of the Captain, the officers started preparations for dropping the creature on the planet. Just as they were about to drop 'it', a red light started flashing in the spaceships and with an alert that a fleet of unknown spaceships had come close.

Shortly after that, a holographic projection of a person with an octopus-like head and blue eyes wearing a brown suit with many medals Was projected on the screen of the mothership.

"My friends, by the law of the eve corps I would have to stop all of you here to ensure the safety of that planet and its inhabitants,” he said, with a face that was naturally unreadable by people other than of his race.

This person was an officer of the eve corps, one of the largest organizations in the entire galaxy, and was the military force of the federation which reduced conflicts between high-level civilizations and upheld law for weaker civilizations that belonged to their star system.

However, he was a corrupt officer who knew Arthur and frequently received bribes from him. This was just one of the events where he would ask for bribes to keep quiet about the situation.

Arthur who already expected this skipped the formalities and paid the bribes. Since they weren't causing any real harm to the planet and its inhabitants and were only dropping a creature that had a 50% chance of causing harm, the bribe was a cheap amount and Arthur didn't feel the pinch. This time without getting interrupted they managed to successfully deploy the pod and watched it fall to the planet k-065........