On 02/15/2016 06:40 AM, John Dallman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The Corsair Mothership is home to a small squadron of shuttlecraft and >> aerospace fighters. Both the starship and her carried squadron are cheap >> and expendable -- they are supposed to make a profit, not to win a war. >> > > I'm a bit puzzled by what seem to be purpose-built craft for piracy. Who > designs and builds them? How do pirates raise the money to buy them?
The Star Citizen game universe has a reasonable explanation for the manufacturer of their "pirate" ships. The Drake company builds them for police and local militia use. Since they are intended for "Coast Guard" use they have tractor beams and large bays that can hold "rescued" ships and/or cargo. And for police use the ships can be fitted with cells for prisoners. Then "legitimate security contractors" or dodgy planetary governments buy them with the proper looking paperwork and use them themselves or resell them to actual pirates. And cargo can be banged up a bit so its identifiers are unreadable and sold as "salvage." From ships that just happened to have an accident in deep space, of course. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
