"It's not uncommon to find yourself targeted by members of law enforcement when you pull off a particularly big job, and it takes time to crack encrypted data to get yourself through automated security checks after the fact. So, you gotta lay low, find some real backwater junker colony to hide out in. Sure, sometimes you get stragglers investigating your whereabouts, but they typically know better than to poke their noses around these parts.

But what'd be the fun in just being able to get away scott-free?"

Art by the fantastic  wasabitea oh my edgy space criminal doggo alien ;u;