[quote=@Skylar]
So, who wants to trip over a lost Meknik colony world? A group of low-tech industrial dogs, who happen to have a lot of nuclear weapons and tend to strip-mine and exploit worlds they are on. Even precious habitable garden worlds or those with pre-FTL species.

The Union really has a lot of messes to clean up. The Lost Margin and the Dark Void Armories are two of them. Would be interesting to play around.
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It could be interesting if these guys happen to stumble upon Ch'ak space. Well, not Ch'ak space itself but likely the deadzone full of empty (as in there aren't any celestial bodies left) systems or one of the few worlds with life that the Ch'ak'ii specifically 'claimed' because they're morally opposed to harvesting systems with native life. Could prove some interesting conflict, since the Ch'ak'ii would not like one of them popping into a protected system even before they realized the extent to which their mining operations would go.

But Jesus Christ, they manged to [i]lose[/i] over 200 colonies? That should be a lesson in why you back up your files. :lol