# Beshtala Chanko Society - Pirate Radio **Type:** Hacker Collective Broadcast | **Hosts:** Zafir & Kendi The Beshtala Chanko Society operates pirate radio broadcasts on the fringes of civilized space. Their transmissions mix working-class cant with Malay and Arabic slang, delivering news, warnings, and solidarity to "orang kita"—their listeners among the spacers and scrappers. **Zafir** opens fast and gleeful, laughing at corporate chaos. A former Counters Guild trainee who ran. **Kendi** is slow and bitter, letting words land—lost family to a Fingers mining collapse. The broadcasts use coded terms: *sand* (1,000 credits), *sunny* (100,000), *fifth* (5th Legion), *fingers* (12 Finger Guilds), *rock* (Serambi), *spire* (Javon). They're hostile to the Counters Guild and 12 Finger Guilds, wary of the Fifth, and show solidarity with the Cobalt Syndicate and Maelstrom Corsairs. Topics they avoid: the Ashtari Cult (genuinely afraid), Night Speakers (too connected to power), specific hideout locations, and anything that helps the Fifth.