This is a modified suggestion of one Remen made. Since i made a few changes, I felt a new thread was warranted.

A the subject line says: if you kill pilots who are below combat 4, you get a notch in your belt toward this badge. 50 for the first badge.

In addition, in monitored sectors, all pilots would get an audible alert that a player with this badge has entered the sector. Alert, Alert, Alert klaxons blaringextremely hostile pilot has entered the sector. Seek shelter now!

Just a few remarks
1) Combat licence level 4 is irrelevant to player combat abilities.
2) This is highly prone to abuse:
A vet (or a guild of vet) makes low level alts, attack low level players and let them kill them, newb gets flag. #DIED
3) Base version emulates competition between griefers resulting in increasing new player kills, not sure GS wants to go this way :p

Combat 16 is also irrelevant to player combat abilities. You only get that if you grind out hive kills. Combat 3 or less is where most new players are.

The idea is to put a flag on the account of players who actively shoot low level pilots, and alert low level pilots that such a player is in the area (if the area is monitored).

"3) Base version emulates competition between griefers resulting in increasing new player kills, not sure GS wants to go this way :p"

We already have that, it's called the "blank data pad".

Yes, let's stimulate griefing behaviour and drive new players out of the game, fantastic idea

This is the most retarded suggestion I've seen in a while

-1 for reasons DeathSpores mentioned. Maybe a badge for killing skilled pilots instead? Such as ones with the 1000 PK badge or more? Definitely not for killing low-skill, new players.

This sounds awesome for reasons outlined above

How about negative combat xp? Go backward in levels when griefing? Lol

Edit:spelling

@Remen. Technically, something like that is supposed to be already built into the game. Kind of. When a pilot dies, and they have a bounty, the game says they lose a bunch of skill points. But for whatever reason, they lose very little. Maybe make it so someone who dies with a bounty, loses an whole combat level or something. But this would be a different suggestion thread.

The alert system also has the benefit of warning noobs. I haven't really gone through the new player stuff recently, but it should be made clear in the voice-over that once you leave this sector, nowhere is truly safe, only varying degrees of safety. Personally when I started playing (this was before the training sectors), the element of danger, everywhere was a big draw for me.

I also just thought of another thing.
"2) This is highly prone to abuse:
A vet (or a guild of vet) makes low level alts, attack low level players and let them kill them, newb gets flag. "

This could be mitigated by tying in the self defense/free kill flag. If you kill some low level character that you have a free kill on, it should not count towards the badge.