Pirate conflict blowing up?

Date: 080310
Planet: Lok
Region: Northeastern Lok

Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).

A violent explosion shook an area of Lok northeast of Nym's base. Shortly afterwards an as of yet unidientified AEG-77 "Vigo" class gunboat was spotted taking off from the area of the explosion and disappearing in the Karthakk system.

So far there have no official reports come in from the area in question, and given its location, none are expected. Lok's population is notoriously thight-lipped outside well-liquored pirate tales, whose veracity is always in question, but most rumors agree that there was a base of operations for a pirate group belonging to the "Rneekii pirates" in the area.

If this was an internal split which blew up into open conflict or two pirate groups who decided to settle their differences in the traditional Lokian way is not sure, and may never be known, but most major gangs and bands of pirates on Lok can be expected to watch their friends, foes and backs more closely for a while, to see if this was just a start of something else.