Cybernetic: The party hits moral rock bottom

I will begin each post with the campaign I'm commentating on, followed by the name of the chapter.
Tonight I ran my science fiction setting. I don't like to run games that I have not built from the ground up, I get into building a government and creating increasingly detailed histories and other intricacies, despite the common player not ever giving a damn about anything the GM has created.

I should probably also explain the party as it is currently composed:

Lilith Ami'Rah - She is essentially Mulan in her backstory, her player is actually pretty dedicated to character development and my heart goes out to her when the party goes insane. The party buff, she is playing a Field Officer and is the face of the party due to high Charisma.

Josef Jaegar - A detective who got caught up in the shenanigans of the rest of the party. His player is a girl who has accidentally made him quite effeminate in the eyes of everyone else. The party skill monkey.

Talos - This character is the remnants of the previous campaign's Big Bad Evil Guy, he is basically a virus that infects other computer intelligences and makes them NPC cohorts. A chainsword wielding lunatic.

Derek Fayd - A brand new player, he is playing a stealth intensive Infiltrator. He is all about the ghosting around, placing grenades in people's pockets, and generally being irritatingly good at avoiding detection.

Daniel Knight - Daniel Knight is the spiritual party leader, the only character to be around since the beginning of the campaign despite his borderline suicidal desire to challenge NPC bosses to combat, even if they are in a tank and he is not. He is dual wielding pistols and playing a freelance pilot who also dabbles in contract killing.

Once upon a time, the party worked for the government and was trying to stop corporate terrorists from attempting an overthrow of the United Earth Confederation and establish an empire, they were fanatical in their desire to create a stronger humanity and followed a sort of "Ends justify the means" mentality. The party were part of a black ops group known as "The Gallows" and operated completely under the radar. Perks of this job included a license to kill and get out of jail free cards. Well they managed to finally find the masterminds behind the entire plan who then explained the particulars of the aforementioned plan, pulling a typical "Join me and let us rule" speech. The party was so moved by it that they accepted and promptly turned on the Confederacy, attempting to gather support with the fleet admirals of the UEC so they would have the means to stage a bloodless coup (though they were informed *multiple* times that this was the least likely scenario and a straight up Civil War would be far more likely to happen) Well the party went and asked the one Admiral who gave *everything* to protect and preserve the UEC (A former PC from a different group who singlehandedly defeated the BBEG) to now fight against it. The kicker: The guy playing the former BBEG takes the initiative and reveals himself to their esteemed foe in a bid for forgiveness.

The above is an artist's representation of the player perpetrating the act. Note the derp on his face.

Roughly three seconds later he was utterly annihilated, the few allies they managed to gather found out about them sheltering the Archenemy of the Human Race and then abandoned them, the various corporations poised to rise up in rebellion did so anyway and millions died. The party threw up their collective hands in resignation, built a new body for their robot comrade and hid on a frontier world for the five years the conflict went on running a brothel in an old west type of town at the edge of inhabitable space.

Fast forward to present day and the UEC is trying so very hard to not collapse due to the blundering of their erstwhile executioners.

After a mildly successful run as intergalactic space pimps (their idea, I try to indulge their creativity no matter how...crass it is) they took up freelance work and began hunting a hitman. They ran all about the known universe and did their best to track him down, achieving success by locating a hidden base run by ex-military pirates inside a electromagnetic cloud that obscures ship-based communications. They succeeded in killing their mark though the person who gave them the job was also killed in the attempt. With everyone relevant to them dead, they were forced to deal with the commander of the Ex-Military Pirates. Lilith challenged him to a one on one dual, the victor would decide the loser's fate and take over as commander of the space pirates. The Lord of the Pirates is a Super-Soldier. Even without his armor on he brought a sword to a gunfight and utterly annihilated Lilith (it was actually pretty close and he had to resort to holding her down and pummeling her face until she stopped moving) she scored very damaging hits with her trusty laser rifle, he scored some devastating hits with his fists.
Duel over. She loses and he brands her, much to Lilith's irritation. He then tells the party that they will take over the hitman's (the one they killed) duties. They simply shrug, decide they like the guy and agree to assassinate some person who is running for political office.
They depart for the planet of this man's residence and find out he's an old NPC acquaintance by the name of Oliver von Kierkegaard, an executive that they robbed back when they had government jobs. They laughed at the coincidence of it and promptly set up shop to end this guy.

All your police are dead

Fayd get's in through a window in the back of the house, disabling the touchy security system with little difficulty, sneaking past the permanent guards (a hilarious addition to the house since their little heist five game years back) and completely forgetting to get the rest of the party in, he instead opts for the panic room with the safe in it. Daniel Knight gets impatient and tries to shoot Mr. Kierkegaard from a nearby tree. With a railgun. The glass is a bullet proof plate type thing and it shatters easily, though missing the mark. Knight fires a second round, hitting the target in the chest and sending him sprawling. A police response is already very close, the party is spooked and they leave without confirming the kill. Mr. Kierkegaard was unconscious and dying but was stabilized. Police pursue the party through the skies until the group makes it back to the ship, which promptly fires weapons designed to punch through the battleplate of starcraft at the small police attack 'copter. Then there is no more police 'copter.

They immediately sit down to watch the news and lament at the survival of Kierkegaard and high five when the families of the police officers they murdered appear onscreen begging for the murderers to be brought to justice (Little victories keep them happy). Unfortunately, the party's query has gone to ground and they aren't sure what to do.
Jaegar hits the town and investigates any connections who would know where the injured Kierkegaard lay, happening upon the man's wife. He feigns interest in solving this case and Talos fakes a mugging by punching the Mrs. right in the face, knocking her unconscious. Everyone in the area panics allowing Talos to escape in the panic and the police arrive allowing Jaegar to fast talk them about how he's here to help and he rides with them to the hospital where Kierkegaards are to be hidden together.
They find the hospital bed that Oliver is in, assure him everything will be alright and that they are on the case, wait for him to fall asleep, and then overdose him on painkiller at the same time framing the innocent nurse whose ID Badge they stole, thereby ruining *his* life too.

I'm still not *exactly* sure they know or care why they are doing what they are doing. I recall one of them describing the Pirate Lord as "having an honest face". Paragons of the human race...