Piracy Campaign

Langy · 05-24-2009, 07:34 PM

There are a few requirements for pirates to operate at all. The first is that whatever it is they steal needs to be significantly more expensive than what they risk - if they need a hundred million dollar ship in order to pirate, then pirates simply won't exist unless that hundred million dollar ship has upwards of two thousand men manning it.

Next, there needs to be some reason the authorities haven't destroyed the pirates already. Maybe the pirates have some sort of stealth technology, allowing them to attack from a safe port the authorities can't locate - but that's almost definitely super science. Maybe the pirates operate from another government's colony, and the authorities aren't willing to risk war to stop the pirates.

05-24-2009, 07:34 PM	#10
Langy Join Date: May 2008 Location: CA	Re: Piracy Campaign There are a few requirements for pirates to operate at all. The first is that whatever it is they steal needs to be significantly more expensive than what they risk - if they need a hundred million dollar ship in order to pirate, then pirates simply won't exist unless that hundred million dollar ship has upwards of two thousand men manning it. Next, there needs to be some reason the authorities haven't destroyed the pirates already. Maybe the pirates have some sort of stealth technology, allowing them to attack from a safe port the authorities can't locate - but that's almost definitely super science. Maybe the pirates operate from another government's colony, and the authorities aren't willing to risk war to stop the pirates.