I've sometimes wandered into B-8, to find I'm being threatened a pirate that either doesn't exist, has fled the sector, or has been boomed (a while ago).

I'm unsure as to whether the pirates that are actually there attack me or not - I didn't wait at the time to find out.

is it an easter egg for halloween?

pirates NEVER give up the ghost.

The same thing happened to me this morning. Also the pirate bots are kinda laggy with thier threats. Some time i'm in the sector for more then a min before i get the first threat.

I've not been making any threats...