Carl Rigney:
>Which I think leads to the conclusion that successful piracy requires
>someone on the inside. After all, if you know where & when someone
>plans to emerge from jump you can match courses *before* they emerge
>and then catch them & loot them in the 1 hour you have before that 6G
>missile crosses half a million kilometers to blow you both to space
>dust... err....
>
>Maybe it would be better to hijack the ship from the inside & then jump
>it where your ship can be waiting for it, away from all the nasty
>thousands of system defense boats & other sharp demographic teeth.
Probably the latter would be the most profitable way to do "piracy".
I can't see a way to make piracy pay without the resources of a planetary
government to back you up. And then only by doing a "space viking"
number: raid planets, not ships. Hit those out-of-the -way planets,
the ones with enough loot to pay expenses, but no defenses to speak of.
Moving targets are too much trouble.
Later...
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