REPORTS from the Deep Belt indicate that raiding pacifist bases, once a fashionable pastime for violent pirates, is nearly impossible. Early theories postulated that overhunting had resulted in the extinction of large communal groupings of the pathologically non-violent. Also theorized was that they were brought to a promised land as the only non-coal recipients of Santa's naughty/nice list. But, St. Nick was busy with his own war with the AI Council. And the last reported sightings of the bases showed facilities teeming with people and riches. So, what really happened to the pacifist bases of yesteryear?
It is easy to suppose that they just got up and left. What else one, may ask, would someone devoted to peace do? They could not, for example, simply summon magical sparkling allies to enforce their way of life upon the Solar System, for even were that a possibility, the use of said force violates their world-view. No, the only logical conclusion is that someone has methodically rounded up the pacifists and kidnapped them, virtually overnight.
Who could have done such a thing, however? The Sons of Earth? The AI Council? A fleet bent on domination? None of these answers make sense. The SoE has no use for those who would not fight. The Council would protect these humans and often asked them in the past to move to protected Starbases. No fleet is large enough to have made this happen overnight.
There is but one people in the Solar System that could have pulled this off. Only one group searches for lonely souls in dark night to try and seduce them to their way of life. Only one group could have pacified the Pacifists.
The Mer-people of Neptune!
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