"Where now?"
While the Cruiser of the Bloodskull Pirates wasn't the biggest one around, it was relatively easy to get lost in the corridors, so Arcturus depended on Alice, who was projecting him the shortest path to the command center.
"Just out of curiosity, how much would this ship be worth?"
He asked because he was somewhat reluctant to leave the Cruiser behind; from its design and firepower, it was a Light Cruiser of some Type 2 Civilization, albeit not very advanced compared to everything he had seen.
The spaceships of most Type 2 Civilizations were pretty powerful, and space pirates, Ravengers, or Star Mercenaries mostly used them.
Mainly because they were relatively affordable, especially those from the lower end of the Type 2 Civilization, while still being fairly advanced.
And because the space pirates and Ravengers primarily operated in various lawless zones of the Galaxy or focused their criminal activities on Type 1 Civilizations, which lacked the power to repel them, they were well-suited for them.
"This ship has been identified to be a Light Cruiser from the Nilianis Federation, a Type 2 Civilization from the edges of the North-Eastern Quadrant. The approximate price for this ship in its current state would be 50,000 Universal Credits. In these ends, within the territories of less developed civilizations and nations, the price could be even twice or thrice that."
Nothing like firm price everywhere in the Galaxy wasn't really a trend because every nation and race had a different level of technology, so it was only natural if he went with something like this, to The Eternal Imperium of Asurya, he would get far less than if he.
For example, it was sold to Type 1 Civilization, which would do everything to get their hands on more advanced technology.
So, the price was pretty much relative depending on the place where it was being sold.
Even though 50,000 Universal Credits were a lot, unfortunately, he would have to leave the Light Cruiser here.
"So, leaving it here..."
Right now, he didn't really have the means to bring back the ship with him, as unfortunate as it was; the Obscurus didn't have the necessary armaments to bring the spaceship back with him or to process the ship.
Unfortunately, he didn't have a Processing Ship, or he would be able to process this small pirate crew into the natural resources. Processing Ships were humongous space hulks, where even the smallest of them was more than ten kilometers in length.
Enormous giants whose sole purpose was processing the spacecraft, minerals, and ores into something usable directly in space.
They were mainly used to clean out the battlefields after the space battles or as supply ships attached to war fleets so that they could manufacture ammunition and other necessary things on the spot.
One could think of them as huge space factories that were floating in space and mining entire asteroids in a short span of time. It was also something that he decided to buy at a later date, though the Processing Ships in Cosmos Records: The Game were extremely pricy.
Even the cheapest cost around a few million Universal Credits; if he decided to buy a more advanced model, then it would cost something around thirty million Universal Credits at least.
With that being decided, Arcturus headed directly to the command center that was on the top of the pirate Light Cruiser, while occasionally cutting down some space pirates that were blocking his path, but none could hinder him for a long time.
At the same time, he was cursing at the pirates because the entire spaceship was one giant trash bin, as nobody had ever cleaned this dammed thing, probably never, though he wouldn't expect anything different from the space pirates.
When he finally arrived at the command deck of the Pirate Light Cruiser, he saw that there were approximately fifteen pirates; all of them were human males with light brown skin, wearing ragtag armor similar to the other pirates that Arcturus had seen.
The captain probably looked more eye-catching than the rest of the pirate crew, as he was more luxuriously clad than his underlings. Not to mention, he was also wearing a really basic, primitive Exoskeleton.
Within the pirate crews, the leader and high-ranking pirates were the ones who had the best equipment of the entire crew. They would also get the best weapons and equipment that the band could get their hands on.
Before the captain of the Bloodskull Pirates could say anything, Arcturus dashed at him, and before he could react, he stabbed his Power Sword into his neck, killing the pirate captain in one hit.
He didn't waste any seconds of ramblings of a dead man with his speech about how he would kill him and other shit. He read enough novels to know that it was an utter waste of time, so he attacked outright.
Now that the captain was killed, the rest of the pirates panicked on the spot because there was no real chain of command for them if their leader was killed. The Exoskeletons were good, but they only enhanced the physical parameters, not the senses of the person, so they were typically inferior to genuinely physically augmented people.
It was not like it mattered because Arcturus didn't waste any moment and started swiftly attacking the other pirates who were armed with the basic weaponry they could find.
Neither of them even had a basic understanding of weapon combat, and slowly, they were all disposed of by him. With the pirates on the deck being killed, he didn't care about the rest that remained on the ship, as they were barging their way into the escape shuttles.
Probably thinking that they could still escape, so he ordered Alice to lock down the hangar and teleport the goods and contraband back to the Cargo Room of the Obscurus, before he started searching through the corpses of the pirates.
The ones that were on the command deck were, for sure, the higher-ups of the Bloodskull Pirates, so for sure, they would have better things than the common grunts.