Editing Pirates of the Baltic Sea (section)

===Dead Zone===

Taking their name from the huge dead area of Baltic Sea’s seafloor, this radical environmentalist group is literally up in arms about the deteriorating state of the sea, and they believe that the ship for non-violent resistance sailed and sunk a long time ago.
What makes Dead Zone different from other groups of ecoterrorists is that they are led by a person of vision and intellect.

“Contemporary and historical examples show that the victor of an insurgency, whether it is the insurgent or the occupier, wins the struggle because they are better able to gain the solidarity and support of the population and the international community.” –Ahto

No one knows who Ahto truly is. He is generally assumed to be a man, for the name is that of an old Finnish sea god. Ahto’s messages and manifestos appear regularly on the net, on pirate radios, sometimes even in the middle of a corporate-sponsored news broadcast when the Dead Zone hackers have a good day. In the broadcasts, Ahto’s voice is androgynous and the only image is Dead Zone’s logo of a yellowed skull peeking from the waves. Some suspect that Ahto is actually several people, others suspect a strong AI.

Ahto’s public messages are a part of Dead Zone’s war strategy. Countering corporate propaganda and raising awareness. But what is more interesting to Buccaneers is Dead Zone’s more direct methods. They fight an asymmetric warfare to make individual or ongoing actions of the corporations and governments that cause harm to Baltic Sea too costly and risky. This has included strikes against shipping and coastal installations, and even sabotage of the Baltic Sea oil pipeline – but never in a fashion that would have caused a leak. By Ahto’s decree, these strikes must be performed with military precision. No harm to innocents, no significant environmental damage, and preferably minimal loss of life.

Dead Zone has strict recruitment protocols to weed out corporate spies and too radical or unethical members, so although they are popular, their actual number is assumed to be small. Therefore they often hire Buccaneers to perform strikes for them, but they will only hire groups with a reputation of dependability and capability of doing a clean job.