Killing Bay

A killing bay was a large compartment equipped aboard vessels in the slave trade.
The bay (or bays as slavers usually possessed multiple compartments) were where slaves being transported would be herded with nauseating gas in the event that the slaver was overtaken and intercepted by naval forces. Once the slaves were herded into the bay or bays would be opened to the vacuum of space, murdering the slaves and disposing of their bodies at the same time. ()
The practice of spacing slaves to remove the evidence of their presence on a ship led King Roger II of Manticore to propose the "equipment clause" amendment to the Cherwell Convention, declaring that a starship equipped as a slaver was a slaver. Thus the presence of killing bays would identify a ship as a slaver. ()
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