Red Herring
A recovered Crimson Stiletto, repatched and repurposed. The targeting protocols are gone. The sensor suite has been jury-rigged with salvaged arrays that do one job: identify what a ship is carrying and how hard it will fight back. The rest is original — meaning it's still fast, which is the only thing that mattered.
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Every pirate scout wing has a few of these. The Crimson Fleet builds the Stiletto to be fast and hard to catch — pirates agree completely on both points, which is why they steal them whenever possible. Stripped of Crimson targeting protocols and refitted with salvaged sensor arrays, the Red Herring does one thing the original never did: it tells you exactly what a freighter is carrying before the raiding squad commits. The name comes from what happens next. By the time the freighter captain realizes they were scanned, the ship is already gone — and something much worse is on the way.