Long ago the world governments of earth where bankrupted by careful corporate maneuvering and well placed bribes. Eventually everything slowly came under the control of the trading guild that had formed from the most powerful corporations of the world. At first they simply led by proxy passing their demands on through puppet governments, thus staying blame free while leading the world into ruin. Once they had amassed enough control and capital, and where able to workout the science behind their plans, They began offering the people of the now grossly overpopulated earth a new opportunity space exploration, new worlds to settle and new hope for a dieing planet. Many jumped at the idea not realizing that in leaving their homes and joining this grand venture, they would be signing over control of their lives to the trading guild. The Earth itself already in its death throws as the worlds human population began its migration to the stars, became only a dead forgotten planet. But time heals all things and millennium to come may see it rise.
However, humans discovered they where indeed not alone. They also discovered they where not welcome, older races who had long ago discovered that life must find a balance, had been watching the humans for thousands of years. They saw humans as a virus consuming and spreading, first across their own world and now moving across the space between worlds. It was agreed on by the races who had watched these dangerous creatures evolve that should they ever breach the confines of their own world before they discovered their balance, they would have to be exterminated.
As humans and aliens began to come face to face it was inconceivable to humans how small colony ships could be seen as a threat to these unknown attackers, but hundreds of thousands of humans where slaughtered overnight, and in the days to come the aliens took no prisoners.
The human race was half decimated before the first prisoners of war where taken, and the trading guild was finally able to learn the true reasons for the war, the seemingly senseless murder of humans across the galaxy, and that their would be no hope of peace. These aliens saw humans as a deadly virus that consumed animal, plant, and even the earth beneath their feet until nothing is left. They had no interest and no intent in negotiations with humans, anymore than humans would have negotiated with Ebola, they would wipe out the human race to the last, and they would not stop until it was done.
Faced with the answers the gained from their captives, hundreds of different races form thousands of worlds throughout the galaxy. The trade guild realized there would be no hope for peace, but it also gave them an idea, they would do what any good virus does, adapt. They poured all their research into the creation of a system that could track and preserve a human conscious and restore them after death, and so the Undeathinator was born.
However, the truth was buried and the Trade guild painted the picture that these aliens who simply wanted to defend their homes from what the believed to be a deadly threat where labeled pirates and nothing more. And so the war continues though humans have the advantage of virtual immortality, the alien pirates persist and as rumor of the human threat spread across the galaxy and beyond more and more aliens of different races and wolds from near and far even as far as other galaxies began to descend on the humans. Still to the day these "pirates" attack on sight, without mercy, without remorse, with no hope of peace.
Meanwhile, the buried truth gave rise to new problems new factions began to rise and move away from the trade guild. The trade guild no longer held absolute power in the galaxy though they did have soul possession of the truth, and with the "pirates" now prepared to die to the last rather than be captured. It is unlikely the rest of humanity will ever know. Though some have begun to ask who are these pirates, what do they want. If answers are to be found it must be determined who to ask.
