![]() ![]() The skull-and-crossed-bones flag contained skulls and bones as a message to the hapless galleon. If nothing else many pirates were savage murderers. Synonyms for "pirate" include corsair, buccaneer, and freebooter.ĭo keep in mind that back in the days of Blackbeard piracy was punishable by death. It would be several orders of magnitude easier for the "piracy" to take the form of grand theft from the merchant's warehouses on the ground. ![]() Or a rude surprise for a space merchant ship whose trajectory passes too near the Somali Asteroids for that matter. There ain't no stealth in space, so it is practically impossible for a fat space galleon to be surprised in mid trip by a sinister space corsair flying the Jolly Roger. Alas, in a scientifically accurate world, they are more or less impossible, much like space fighters and for similar reasons. The image of pirate freebooters on the high seas is just too romantic for words, science fiction writers can't resist. Space Pirates is a science fiction trope that just won't go away. Playing counters from tabletop boardgame Triplanetary ![]()
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