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.