Re: (3810) pirates...
In reply to #3810 pirates... by Steve Higginbotham
Cites: #3810
> 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.
>From conversations with Robert Plamondon I believe that's how piracy
is commonly done in Gazis' Eight Worlds campaign, which has been alleged
to be Traveller now and then. The poor worlds don't have any defense vs.
an orbiting ship's weapons so the pirates land, grab up whatever they like,
flatten whatever resists, and depart.
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Carl Rigney
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