Piracy Campaign

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

If your space travel is in-system, piracy is impossible without a superscience invisibility cloak.

So that's how the Somalis are doing it...

Seriously, if piracy can still exist against the power of modern day radar technology, I'm sure enough tech assumptions can be postulated to make in-system piracy possible without requiring superscience.

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

"Fixed" jump points, permanent choke points are a little too easy for the authorities to control. Pirates don't hang out at navigation canals or straits. Never did. They'd hang out on coastlines and islands that were controlled by friendly rulers or disorganised ones that couldn't control that commercial ships would have to pass by on the way from choke point to choke point.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "hang out", but piracy is certainly prevalent in the Malacca Strait. Given, there are 900kms of small islands and river outlets for pirates to hide in so it's difficult to exert government control, but it's nonetheless a dangerous choke point.