DarkPearl
"The pirate system? Oh, that one... Well the system is not destroyed... The station itself housed slaves of psionic properties which we wished to acquire, and what we presume were its owners decided it was a good idea to try and resist. The mining planet wasnt what you'd call destruction - we were simply expediating the process its inhabitants had already begun. The other world was subjected to a weapons test, primarily due to it being in proximity to our other locations of interests and the fact it is densely populated."