There are many places in the Known Worlds where the righteous fear to tread. These Freeports and Pirate Havens are as pockets of society unto themselves. With their own laws, their own traditions.
Long ago the Universal Church decreed that the jumpgate to the boundary between the ‘stellar sanctus’ – the domains of man – and ‘outer darkness’ – the realm of demons and worse. The Freeport of Bounty orbits Gwynneth’s Blue Sun, placing it in a gray area legally and theologically. Technically it is a domain in the outer darkness beyond the rule of man and the salvation of the Celestial Sun.
To reach this place of one bas traverse the outer dark, a risk few would willingly undertake.