Shadow Fleet

Ah yes, the oft-rumored, rarely encountered Shadow Fleet. It’s got a couple hundred ships, makin’ up a sort of mobile system circling Royal space (sector aspect: Hidden among the Shadow Fleet). The fleet’s run by a goblin named Elizabeth Krigar, who realized that her people’s long history of servitude left them trusted and omnipresent in the Hegemony. She spent her life building a network of informants throughout the sea, and set up the fleet to store all that info. 
The fleet’s hidden, it’s mobile, and it’s too valuable to attack. And for Krigar and the many Goblins she employs, it’s the only place in the sea they feel safe. Goblins work there as information brokers, code-breakers, spies, and such.