Message: 1 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:13:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Brandon Cope <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [gurps] other-than-Traveller Piracy Viability Analysis To: The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
I've seen (and supported) a social angle, but more along the lines of: high ranking nobles and powerful megacorporations allow piracy to exist, mostly towards their own financial ends. Pirates a noble.megacorp supports are his "off the books" navy. The pirates are "used" to attack rivals shipping (sometimes they attack your shipping but that's just the cost of doing business).
Well yes, Brandon, but those sound as halfway between true pirates and corsairs.
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