Spacefarers mention the pirate known as Crocodile only in whispers. Though he prefers efficiency to brutality, Crocodile answers any resistance with savage alacrity, leaving only stripped-down husks with warnings in blood for the salvagers to find. But by the time his raid leader, Boroz Two-Saws, tears into a ship with his custom-rigged power armor, the victims are usually ready to surrender. Even more fearsome is his first mate, Garamax, who suffered a near-fatal injury in battle: In keeping with Feron medicine, his wound was sealed with a cybernetic bomb, making him a Shipkiller, a living weapon seeking a second chance to die in glory.

Crocodile’s crew comes mainly from the bottom ranks of former Feron soldiers, with sergeants-turned-thugs to send their messages, and grunts-turned-enforcers to make examples of those who don’t listen. His style of piracy is direct confrontation, unleashing his crew’s unmatched ferocity to muscle out the competition. Only the foolish or desperate stray into his crew’s path.