Bashi Bazouk is a term that comes from the Turkish word Basibozuk, which literally means "damaged head," but is usually translated as "leaderless." That word served to designate some irregular troops of the former Ottoman army.
[Extract from Babelicom, encyclopedic website of online information and resources, available in Maya and Arachne].
Currently, the Bashi Bazouks are mercenary adventurers hired to be part of the corsair crews in the service of the Sultan and the great lords of the Silk trade. Integrated into Search and Sweep Teams, your mission is to traverse a boarded ship, eliminating resistance points and looking for interesting things. These are the tasks in which no one can deny their effectiveness. Although most of them have a military background, the Bashi Bazouks have forgotten all about discipline and respect for authority. As boarding parties they form a turbulent, stubborn and colorful gang that destroys target ships with chaotic madness. Rogues and criminals without any conscience or respect for the law, these undisciplined troops live only for their own benefit and are sometimes difficult to control. Their raids and the damage they cause are widely infamous, but the biggest scandal was the Al-Umara Station massacre during the Silk Riots, in which hundreds of civilians were killed. Since that event, the name Bashi Bazouk has become a pejorative term. However, the usefulness of the Bashi Bazouks has allowed them to survive their poor reputation, and while greed still rules interstellar commerce, there will always be a mission for these undisciplined opportunists.
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