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Playtest Document Playtest Document Page 4 Pirates History of Piracy While it is not fully known as to when Piracy started. What is known that there are far to many cases of fine men that once served their homelands proud. Finding themselves from either simply island hopping to find a place to call home and food to fill their bellies to blatant acts of war on former allies or age long enemies. Due to the falling out of these special operation teams that worked on a job by job biases it was easy to keep them off official record books, and made it that much easier to leave them to fend for themselves after being branded as war- criminals or traitors. This was only made worse for the brave naval warriors when the various treaties to stop the issue of leers of Marques. This is not to say that there were official naval-men either some are maverick and wild adventurers looking for fortune or fame, though they did believe to be working for the greater good of their countries as well. Be it capturing enemy supply ships for food and water, or weapons to the treasure ship to capture enemy funds. Some even would be used to defend outlaying island nations where it would be to costly to use a normal navy. Many of which had no other means to support themselves and their families (if any left). Many felt wronged by the countries they once served, although a few felt more anger at their homeland being ‘forced’ (in their eyes) in to signing such a horrid treaties. It was these factors that made the Pirates of either origin into the deadly force they became. The endless numbers of unemployed sailors, marines, etc cause the pirates to have be like a blight and swarm in the waters of the new worlds, waters that are difficult navigate. With these are conditions areas where prone to have supply and treasure ships go down only to have poorly constructed shacks and huts to house the valuables, and be poorly guarded due to over confidence. These factors make several these Pirates raid former allies and foes in crews of former allies and foes. As all of them where now branded criminals and targeted by all countries, they now band and make all nation ships fair game. With all the various tasks forces sent to squash the pirates would often fail, and worse still incur their wrath against whichever nation tried to stop them. Barricades would also only result pirates to stealthily sneak their shanty port towns to other locations and open other ones if that was not possible and then new ones would crop up and they would retrieve supplies in the cover of dark using smaller ships. In fact the only method reducing the pirate numbers was when various countries started to issue pardons and some would even sweeten the pot by offering compensation for ‘lost Sample file
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History of PiracyWhile it is not fully known as
to when Piracy started. What is known that there are far to many cases of fine men that once served their homelands proud. Finding themselves from either simply island hopping to find a place to call home and food to fill their bellies to blatant acts of war on former allies or age long enemies.
Due to the falling out of these special operation teams that worked on a job by job biases it was easy to keep them off official record books, and made it that much easier to leave them to fend for themselves after being branded as war-criminals or traitors. This was only made worse for the brave naval warriors when the various treaties to stop the issue of letters of Marques.
This is not to say that there were official naval-men either some are maverick and wild adventurers looking for fortune or fame, though they did believe to be working for the
greater good of their countries as well. Be it capturing enemy supply ships for food and water, or weapons to the treasure ship to capture enemy funds. Some even would be used to defend outlaying island nations where it would be to costly to use a normal navy.
Many of which had no other means to support themselves and their families (if any left). Many felt wronged by the countries they once served, although a few felt more anger at their homeland being ‘forced’ (in their eyes) in to signing such a horrid treaties. It was these factors that made the Pirates of either origin into the deadly force they became.
The endless numbers of unemployed sailors, marines, etc cause the pirates to have be like a blight and swarm in the waters of the new worlds, waters that are difficult navigate. With these are conditions areas where prone to have supply and treasure ships go down only to have
poorly constructed shacks and huts to house the valuables, and be poorly guarded due to over confidence. These factors make several these Pirates raid former allies and foes in crews of former allies and foes. As all of them where now branded criminals and targeted by all countries, they now band and make all nation ships fair game.
With all the various tasks forces sent to squash the pirates would often fail, and worse still incur their wrath against whichever nation tried to stop them. Barricades would also only result pirates to stealthily sneak their shanty port towns to other locations and open other ones if that was not possible and then new ones would crop up and they would retrieve supplies in the cover of dark using smaller ships. In fact the only method reducing the pirate numbers was when various countries started to issue pardons and some would even sweeten the pot by offering compensation for ‘lost
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wages’.As for the Pirates that remain,
they are a hardier bunch that either from pride, principle, and/or hate refused the pardon and ‘bribe’ as they viewed it. No matter how badly outnumbered, how many ports close their gates to them, they refuse to give in and keep fighting to the bitter end. The drive for vengeance for lives, family, honor, friends lost is all many of them need, however, the fact that many of them can get fortune along side theses acts is an added bonus. It is these fortunes that drives Governors, Dukes and other figureheads willing turn a blind eye to Pirates taking port for the protection it provides to their own vessels and the added gold such ‘patrons’ bring.
To this day merchant vessels will pay for escort them as they travel for protection from the pirates, which itself is a gamble as some pirates will play the role of protectorate force to raid those very same ship. Some ships would oft take the better and (as they viewed it) wiser choice to pay a simple ‘toll’ to travel in ‘Pirate Waters’. While a select few ships work off the beaten path and will sell and trade to the pirates for much needed supplies at reduced rates which would not only leave their normal ships free attack from the pirates they traded with but would also result in those pirates attacking other pirates from attacking their business partners.
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