<br/><div class="floatleft">(http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/bd/6d/48/bd6d489c542c479491006f30bb1efb60.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Kiyanee<br/><strong>Location:</strong>In the Briefing<br/><strong>Tags:</strong>Rose, open<br/><br/><br/>Keys was a bit surprised at Helena's question. Pirates were, by definition,<em>Oi-Diazu, </em>even (or especially) when they were allied with local or regional governments, so there should be no hesitation about removing them from the Great Web. Of course, one<em>might</em>try to question them about their activities and those of their fellows, but in Kiyanee's experience, pirates tended to be as proud, clannish, and tight-lipped as her former family and the others. Very difficult to get more than curses and bluster out of them. And there was no one, so far as she knew, to send their right hands to in order to make a statement, so why waste the energy?<br/><br/>On the other channel, her experience with pirates was rather limited. And only on a per-fee contract basis. One of the Prime Tenets of<em>Web-Tai-Zen </em>was:<strong>any strand is thicker than it appears.</strong>Far more elegant in her own language, but so very rewardingly direct in Basic: "shit happens". Helena-chan might, after all, have a point...<br/><br/>"Rose-sen..." Standing, she bowed briefly, then dropped back into her seat, already toying with her glove. "If we think there may be more of these...people...in the vicinity, it might be useful to keep one or two alive temporarily, to attempt to learn their comm protocols and such. I have a few ideas for direct neural interfacing...quite painful, of course, but possibly effective..."  Pausing for a moment, she looked around, gauging her new family's mood. For warriors they were, at times, squeamish about odd things, while at the same time being overly practical (in her view) about others.  Cultural differences, she supposed.<br/><br/>"Also," she continued, rapidly. "Disabling sensors is, naturally, child's play. But I can no more do it in a vacuum than I may breathe in one. I must regretfully inform you that I will require at minimum...say ten minutes, to study their emissions and design a counter. Unless we have specfic data on their ship types?" she finished, giving a small, hopeful smile of encouragement.