Because some things need doing

We are a group of mercenaries who will do anything to get at money, even if it means raiding “innocent” vessels. We will always give any vessel that passes through our territory the chance to pay “taxes”, who will then be exempt from our raiding parties and may even gain our assistance if attacked by another group within our territory.

We do not wish to kill any living being, but money is still our top priority. If someone deems his cargo is worth more than his life, we’ll be inclined to agree with him. We’ll not only take his cargo, but his life and his ship if we can.

Contracts will be followed as well as possible and we would inform you if there is someone else offering a higher pay for ignoring the contract.
Our Contracts are binding as long as we deem the pay as acceptable.



Eclipse used to be a band of mercenaries who followed a strict code of always fulfilling the contract, even if it meant death. They never accepted any immoral or illegal contracts, at least until they were betrayed by local law enforcement, whom they were supposed to be aiding in a crackdown on slavers.
The law enforcement fired on the Eclipse mercenaries, leaving them to the mercy of the slavers for large profits.

The Eclipse mercenaries managed to win the fight against the slavers, but the victory was a pyrrhic one. Little of the mercenaries was left, upon which they ditched their strict moral code as they saw it as a sign of weakness.
The removal of the moral code left them in the open, as many bounty hunters saw their contracted killing and raiding as signs of piracy.

The mercenaries were whittled down to even less and started having problems with maintaining even the few ships they still had, as the pay for their work was miserable, which wasn’t helped by the ramshackle look of their ships.

Soon the need to survive outweighed the last of their code, forcing them to turn into pirates, where every imperial went to improving the fleet.

Today the mercenaries are now a syndicate, pirating whenever there aren’t any profitable contracts around, only loosely trying not to kill.


The Eclipse Syndicate lists these rules in order of importance, where rule No. 1 trumps every other rule:

We follow the leader’s orders.
We are loyal to the syndicate.
We look out for each other.
We always try to increase our wealth.
We mostly honour our contracts.
We kill if deemed necessary, not otherwise.
We guard our “business partners”, as long as they are in our territory.

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