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Community Showcase Explore More. Edit Page Related Discussion History Close More To Do Page Source. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. Hand over yer space bootyor I'll blast ye with me space cannons! You know, pirates, but in space! The adverts for Nestle's "Honey Stars" often feature these. Outlaw Star is full of the first type.

As a rather interesting variation, they are Chinese and use Tao-magic. They seem to be modeled after the Triads. It's also interesting to note that the space pirates in this series were the pioneers of warp speed travel and it was their creation of grappler ships that changed the nature of space warfare.

Captain Harlocka Loveable Rogue space pirate who has also appeared in other works of Leiji Matsumoto. His ship is a Military Mashup Machine with a submarine prow, a battleship body and a galleon rear. The Leijiverse also has Emeraldas, who sails the Sea of Stars in a frigate attached to a dirigible. It's implied that both Harlock and Emeraldas are merely rebels against the status quo, and that Harlock adopted the pirate motif as a clear sign of it, while Emeraldas did it in a strange combination of Rule of Cool she already sported the skull and crossbones as an hairpin and on her clothes well before becoming a space pirate and Ascended Fanon her ship Queen Emeraldas was already decorated with the skull and crossbones when she acquired her, and Emeraldas was an anti-status quo rebel with a pirate-minded dress sense.

Type 1 space pirates had the misfortune of encountering them: Buichi Terasawa's Space Adventure Cobra is also the second version. He is slightly less altruistic and noble-minded than Harlock, being mostly in it for his own interest, but he is also a hero, and has some morals and is better than an organized Guild of pirates that are his archenemies.

Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo! With Tarant Shunk around, it will be for fun. Cleo and his crew in Glass Fleet are more or less space pirates. Gundam In the Universal Century of Mobile Suit Gundama lot of Zeon remnants became space pirates after the One Year War, including Cima, the antagonist in Instead of rationalizing them the scientific way, the stories usually tell of how the Federation tolerated or even encouraged them to exist, in order to provide a sense of risk to civilians to keep their large forces active and not decommissioned.

It is also a good way to obtain info from the remnants. The Mobile Suit Gundam SEED spinoff series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray reveals a surprising number of pirates operating at the fringes of the SEED universe.

The manga Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam has the main characters from Mobile Suit Gundam F91 opposing the Jupiter Empire under the guise of space pirates, even going so far as to take on the name of the original antagonists, the Crossbone Vanguard. They employ all the standard pirate tropes, including spaceships that look like sailing ships complete with broadside beam cannons and a robot parrot apparently for no other reason than that they canbut are actually preventing the Earth from being attacked by the Jovians.

It gets even crazier. The titular Gundam has X-shaped thrusters though they're actually practicala beam cutlass and daggers instead of the standard saber, a beam gun shaped like a flintlock pistol, a targeting lens shaped like an eye patch and an extra antenna on its head modeled after a feather.

Apparently just sporting the Jolly Roger insignia on its forehead wasn't enough for Hajime Katoki. This actually gets a Lampshade in the side manga Skull Heartwhere we're shown the Crossbone Gundam shortly after it's finished, and one of the pilots, Umon Samon, suggests adding the familiar pirate elements like a skull and crossbones on the forehead. The Gundam's pilot Kinkaid Nau teasingly asks "Isn't that a little much? Gundam AGE also gives us a group. They're known as Bisidian, they pirate Federation vessels, and as of the Kio arc, they have their own Gundam.

In actuality, they're led by Asemu Asuno, and they've been attacking both Federation and Vagan forces in order to preserve the balance of power and keep large-scale battles to a minimum, in an effort to minimize casualties in the war. Iron Blooded Orphans has the Brewers, a group of space pirates mainly operating in the route between Earth and Mars. Known to be very ruthlessthey also utilize Child Soldiers. The main characters of Vandread are female examples of this trope.

Sol Biancaalso the name of the ship that serves as both the home and the interstellar headquarters for an all-female band of notorious space pirates. Space Pirate Mito has the title character and her crew, though she is actually the exiled heir to the galactic throne and her ship is part of the royal regalia.

One Piece — a few appear during Enel's coverstory. They are seen in Kurau Phantom Memory when Kurau and Christmas attempt to return to earth from the colonized moon. Bojack and crew from the ninth Dragon Ball Z movie. In the English dub, Krillin outright called the Saiyans space pirates who go around killing innocents so they can sell their planet to the highest bidder. In FLCLthe Pirate King Atomsk is said to be so powerful he can steal entire planets.

The anime is definitely of the second variety, with the tons of Shout Outs to other similar shows, including Captain Harlock.

Then you read the light novel, the original story, and figured it is probably one of the most, if not the most, hard sci-fi space opera in anime, manga, Japanese game, light novel history.

Not surprising, it is from an author that is in the group of "Space authors group" and is involved in building a real life rocket that went to space. It should also be noted that their new standard M. They hit pre-determined cruise ships, put on a scripted show with crewmembers pretending to oppose them, and the "victims" are even compensated for their losses.

It's basically a staged insurance scam where the company itself is also in on it. When not engaging in pretending to be Type 2 versions, they also take a variety of other jobs, such as high speed, secure cargo transport or providing space based security.

It does have softer side sci-fi in it, with FTL travel and communication, magical artificial gravity devices and inertia storage. However, the author tries to compensate every one of these with actual reasoning and their impact in science, and all of these are with high limitations in use. Spaceships uses tons of propellant to even go slightly faster, and propellant is costly. Solar sails go for dozen of kilometres in diameter, accelerates really slow, but also act as really good antenna for radar.

Also technically they'd count as privateers rather than pirates, operating under Letters of Marque from their home government. They were originally issed for a war that never happened because both sides were thoroughly beaten by a much more powerful third party, but the Letters of Marque that were issued before hand are considered valid as long as certain conditions are met.

Luluco's mother in Space Patrol Luluco. In the Russian audioplay Space Operathe protagonist Sebastian and his alien friend Byron end up being lured into a pirate trap after receiving a distress call from a woman whose ship is under attack. Their ship is boarded, but the duo manages to disable them with knockout gas Sebastian puts on a gas mask, and Byron is immune. They end up rescuing the woman, Mona. It turns out that Byron's mate Isolde has also been captured by pirates and put in a zoo.

The knocked-out pirates are put on their ship, and Byron sets its course for the nearest Guard station, figuring the pirates are likely wanted men. The Starjammers of the X-Men comics. Their leader is nicknamed Corsair, wears a headband, thigh boots, and a handlebar mustache, and fights with a blaster pistol in one hand and a cutlass in the other. They're a huge mashup of pulp space opera and swashbuckling tropes. Corsair is from Earth, and probably decided to look like a traditional high seas pirate just for the hell of it.

His alien crew also look the part, but mostly to a less extreme degree. The Silver Surfer encountered a group of space pirates while tracking down one of the Elders. Him and Nova even get dressed up as pirates to blend in among the various species that make up the group in an attempt to infiltrate it. During his first abortive return to the main X-titles inChris Claremont introduced a vast number of new characters.

They were given the umbrella term "the Neo", and most of them were possessed of an extremely fragile glass jaw since they tended just to turn up, say their names and give a description of their powers in typical Claremontian fashion, and then get punched into oblivion, never to be seen again.

Amongst the Neo was a faction of slave traders called the Crimson Pirates, one member of which actually had a giant comedy cannon on his shoulder. The Crimson Pirates reappeared in the recent Nightcrawler solo series, without the Neo baggage, although they now seem tied to old Excalibur slaver villains.

Who, coincidentally, the team encountered in another dimension where they teamed up with a blue-skinned princess-cum-sky pirate and a humanoid version of Lockheed. Nightcrawler himself might count, given his penchant for swashbuckling swordplay and all the different places in time, space and dimension he's been too. His father Azazel recently rebranded himself as a pirate straight out of Hell and tried to invade Heaven. Captain Fate in the Marvel Universe is a Flying Dutchman Space Pirate.

He occasionally visits Earth and acts as a Sky Pirate. Captain Sale looks the part, with an eyepatch, buccaneer space boots, and epaulets on her Raygun Gothic outfit. Given her motley crew, she probably is, too, but since she's on the good guys' side in her sole appearance so far we don't see her do any pirating.

Roxxas from the Legion of Super-Heroes comics, which also gave us the Sklarian Raiders; an Amazon Brigade of space Pirate Girls. In Wonder Womanthe "Silver Serpent" saga featured an all female cadre of Space Pirates who travel from planet to planet to steal that world's technology, recruit a small group of the females for membership and the remainder of the planet's people for food stock.

Before that, a mids story arc had Wonder Woman herself becoming one to topple a galactic slaving empire. It's as Crazy Awesome as it sounds. Despite the name, Star Pirate, from Planet Comicsdid not do much pirating. Blackbeard, from the same comic, fits the Space Pirate motif better.

The Uralian Space Pirates, from Crusader from Mars. Space Smith, from Fantastic Comicsoften fought Space Pirates. Wonder Comics featured many Space Pirates, including Tara the Pirate Queen. Rex Dexter, from Mystery Men Comicsfought Space Pirates in his first appearance.

This was basically Terra-Man's schtick in the Bronze Age Superman comics. Aliens kidnapped him as a boy from the 19th century American West. He eventually broke free and became a pirate in the aliens' own society. When he finally returned to Earth, he found that spending years traveling at relativistic speeds had let years pass him by, so that his 19th century mannerisms made him a literal space cowboy. As Superman once observed, Earth wasn't really of much logical interest to a planet-hopping thief like TM, but TM took offense to an alien being called Earth's greatest hero, and so christened himself Terra -Man and kept returning just to pick fights with Supes.

She admits that she took up the pirate persona mostly as a way of dealing with her boredom. Jeb and Tommy from Star Raiders are implied as such, though the reader never sees them actually commit any sort of piracy.

Tommy even sports an eyepatch Darkhawk wears armor meant for an army of space pirates. Starslayer Pirates in a Space Opera setting. Pirate spaceships are known to plague the outer rim of the Sol solar system and beyond; fighting them is one of the Space Corps' prime objectives.

Karkat and company are kidnaped by a crew of type-one space pirates in the Golden Age series. This is apparently a bit of a problem in the Alternian Empire. Disney's Treasure Planetbeing Treasure Island Recycled In SPACEnaturally features this kind of character rather heavily, most centrally John Silver and his crew of mutineers. In the backstory, there's Captain Nathaniel Flint, the most feared Space Pirate to ever live In-Universewhose vast hidden treasure provides the motivation for most of the plot.

Due to the extremely open way that Space Is an Ocean in the setting, these are all Type 2 Space Pirates. The Ice Pirates was a So Bad, It's Good '80s sci fi adventure film where the protagonists were Space Mutiny had pirates recycled footage of Cylon warships with at least one inhabitable system as claimed territory. Keep in mind this is a setting where space travel is less than light speed, necessitating multi-generational ships. Except when they forget and it isn't it's that kind of movie, watch the MST3K version and be amazed.

The Agony Booth did a recap that tried and failed to make sense of the tech level. Star Wars references to "Corellian Pirate Ships". And Han Solo is a smuggler.

In The American Astronaut the Blueberry Pirate steals and bootlegs fruit across the solar system. Battle Beyond the Stars. We're first introduced to Space Trucker Cowboy being attacked by jackers who are blasting his ship with laser fire in order to wear down the shields, whereupon they'll blast him and steal his cargo. Cowboy responds by laconically calling for help and playing a Captivity Harmonica. Space Truckers has the protagonists go "off-road" in order forex balikbayan box san francisco avoid being stopped by the authorities but end up getting captured by a giant pirate ship, which literally swallows them.

These pirates were of the second, Recycled IN SPACE! Resurrection has the crew of the Bettywhich is not unlike another Joss Whedon creation. The Betty crew are a band of criminals and mercenaries who were hired by amoral military scientists to kidnap unconscious space travellers and deliver them to a secret science lab, where how much money do franchise brokers make become victims to experiments with the titular Aliens.

Yondu and the Ravagers from Guardians of the Galaxy. Although we never see them actually do any pillaging on-screen, they are described as and act like a group that will steal anything, and everyone else treats them as such.

When they deploy in force for the finale they seem to be on an even keel with the force Novacorp has protecting their capital. The sequel has the rowdier elements mutiny and kill off Yondu's loyalists; he and his first mate then wipe out the lot of them in one bloody fight with some help from Rocket.

It then reveals this was only one independent faction out of a hundred, and not even the biggest one. In The Martian Mark Watney humorously describes how he is humanity's very first space pirate: I've been thinking about the laws on Mars. There's an international treaty saying no country can lay claim to anything that's not on Earth. By another treaty, if you're not in any country's territory then maritime law applies. So Mars is international waters. Now, NASA is an American organization, it owns the Hab.

But the second I walk outside, I'm in international waters. So here's the cool part; I'm about to leave for Schiaparelli Crater where I'm going to commandeer the Como interpretar graficos forex IV lander.

No one gave me explicit permission to do this, and they stock market guru watch list until I'm on board Ares IV. So I'm going to be taking over a vessel in international waters, which by definition In the Revelation Space Series by Alastair Reynoldspirates lurk in the remains of the Glitter Band a vast ring of space stations.

The pirates, the "Banshees", are thoroughly unromantic bastards who grapple onto freighters to kill the crew and sell anything on board. The Ultranauts, the crews of the massive slower-than-light freighters, often have elements of space piracy, as they'll just as often loot as save a ship in trouble. The impossibility of space piracy and the trick Julian Forward uses to make space trader save option work is central to the plot of Larry Niven 's " The Borderlands of Sol ".

In Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson 's Hoka stories, when the Convergys work from home legit set out to emulate a Space Patrol, Alex has horrified visions of their being tried for piracy. He's not even sure that hanging isn't still in effect as the approved form of punishment.

In Piers Anthony 's Bio of a Space Tyrant series, pirates of currency exchange rates euro to sterling second kind show up as a form of Refuge in Audacitysince the authorities won't believe or don't want to admit to ancient-looking pirates operating in space.

Lucky Starr confronts space pirates in the juvenile novel Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids by Isaac Asimov. Consider Phlebas the first Culture novel by Ian M. The crew of the Clear Air Turbulence are ostensibly Private Military Contractorsbut are actually just a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits raiding whatever they think will be vulnerable.

Seeing as they're carrying out their activities amidst the chaos of an intragalactic war, that tends not to be very much. Averted in Terry Bisson's Pirates of the Universedespite the title, which actually refers to a theme park ride. Although the main character's coworkers might be considered Space Poachers. They're all violent, though in different ways.

In Lois McMaster Bujold 's Vorkosigan SagaMiles's Dendarii Mercenary Fleet gets hired to rescue hostages from hijackers.

Also, in the later books, the Barrayaran Fleet is put to use as bodyguards for Komarran merchants. This is a win-win for both parts, since the Komarrans get protected by an army with a reputation for ruthlesness and the Barrayarans get to give good military training to their soldiers, without needing to declare war on anybody. The Vatta's War series, by Elizabeth Moonfeatures pirates as well. In this case, they are usually only a major problem if you venture off the charted and patrolled space routes.

This changes when the Pirates form a large organized fleet, leading to the creation of first an ad-hoc fleet of privateers, and later an alliance of different navies including what amount to a large corporate security space force and a Private Military Contractor with its own fleet of warships. The formation of such alliances is only made how to make money with cattle farming with the development of technology for ship-to-ship faster than light communications.

When the Company decided that the war against Union wasn't cost-effective, Conrad Mazian and his captains felt that they'd shed too much blood to just be called back, australian forex 60s binary options system that they'd continue the fight on their own — and if a merchanter ship had resources they needed for that aim, they'd hand it over if they knew what was good for them.

We'll contest each star Union wants. The first kind of space pirates appear in the serial " The Space Pirates ". The Captain of "The Pirate Planet" in the serial of the same name. Cybernetic eye and robot parrot the Polyphase Aviatron. Slightly subverts the second type, as it turns out that he's Genre Savvy and deliberately trying to invoke Beware the Silly Ones.

He's an unusal type as he has an entire Hollow World that teleports around other planets to loot them. He also turns out to unwillingly be The Best online futures broker reviewsand is using the remains from the looting in a long-term plan to eliminate his almost hidden boss.

Kari and Olvir in "Terminus"who board what is seriously the wrong vessel to attack. Captain Wrack of the Eternals in the very next serial "Enlightenment" is a bored alien god impersonating a type two Forex backlash reviews Pirate.

The ending of "Curse of the Black Spot" has a crew of regular 17th century pirates who end up taking over an abandoned alien space ship. We are never told if they remain pirates or use their new ship for legitimate purposes. The mass-murdering and implied rape-loving Solomon in " Dinosaurs on a Spaceship job openings in stock market, who murders all the Silurians on board a ship so he can take their cargo of the last dinosaurs.

He is such a monster that the Doctor deliberately forces him into a small spaceship that will be used as a remote-controlled target for missiles. The TV show Lost in Space had two episodes with space pirates: The Reavers whose typical method of raiding involves raping victims to death, eating their flesh, and sewing their skins to their clothing.

The luckier ones get it in that order. Reavers are just Always Chaotic Evil Usual Adversaries with space ships. The crew of Serenity herself are referred to as pirates on occasion.

And for good reason, as they commit several acts which can definitely be defined as piracy during the course of the series. Reynolds" episode had a couple of non-traditional space pirates as the Monster of the Week. The Raiders are of the first kind. They were a recurring threat for the first half of the first season, but bit off more than they could chew when they tried to raid the station directly and lost all their fighters before being annihilated by the Shadows.

Other Raider groups are shown as a cross between minor nuisances and comical victims of enemies much stronger than themlike the one who attacked a lightly-defended shipment of Quantium that was actually a bait from the Army of Lightor the Drazi-supported group that tormented a planet for years and was visited by the whole White Star Fleet. Star Trek The Nausicaans. Supposedly this episode wouldn't have been made while Gene Roddenberry was still alive as he had always vetoed day trading requirements for forex "space pirates" idea.

The Maquis in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine commit piracy in the course of their terrorist activities; though they mostly keep to smuggling and gunrunning they have hijacked ships more than once. The main target was their Cardassian opposite numbers, who did the same things. The Orions are sometimes referred to as pirates, though they straddle the line between actual Space Pirates and The Syndicate. Of course, since they are a fairly wide-spread race with no central government that may just be different groups.

The Animated Series had an episode titled The Pirates of Orion. Early encounters with the Ferengi involved them acting like pirates, even trying good money earning websites capture the Enterprise in more than one occasion. The Enterprise itself turned to piracy late in the Xindi arc. After the Enterprise' warp drive was disabled by the Xindi, Archer attacked an innocent freighter to take a needed part.

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He certainly wouldn't have done it if Earth's very survival hadn't been on the line, and greatly regretted it even beaming over some supplies to the other ship to make up for it. To the arbitrage in options markets in india What the Hell, Hero? Heavy Metal band Arcturus used to dress as pirates onstage while singing about astronomy and space travel. The Lord Weird Slough Feg have several songs and an entire album based on Traveller.

I'm a space pirate, you know my name. Tom Smith 's concept album The Last Hero on Earth brings us the pirate ninjas from Dino Island. They stole their schtick pretty much in its entirety; what do you expect from short long position forex The song "Space Pirates" by Alice Cooper.

Yes, he does say "Arr! The indie band The Senate created the world's first "Space Shanty" which is sung in character as, if not space pirates, space sailors in general.

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They work for whoever pays well enough but came to Earth to steal The Rocket Men from the Big Finish Doctor Who audios "The Rocket Men", "Return of the Rocket Men" and "Requiem for the Rocket Men" are a roving gang of space pirates who use Raygun Gothic Jetpacks to fly and ambush people. One of the first events involved a portal summoning large numbers of these. And one of the first really big player summons was a massive space ship, then they died and came back as ghost pirates Plenty of examples from Warhammer 40, Type one space pirates include Eldar Corsairs who raid the lesser races' shipping and settlements to survive, Dark Eldar who raid for captives and playthings or more specifically, soulsChaos warbands including some traitorous Space Marines such as the Red Corsairs, and even perfectly average human pirates, mainly around some of the more unexplored and backwater sectors.

As if regular orks weren't Crazy Awesome enough, Ork Freebooter bands are type two space pirates, and like hats and bandanas and fly the Jolly Ork. Examples include flash git Kaptin Badrukk, the richest ork in the galaxy with a coat of gold armor forged from the false teef of other kaptins he's defeated, while the Dawn of War II 's Retribution expansion gives us Kaptin Bludflagg, who cuts through scores of Imperials, Chaos cultists and aliens, culminating in a battle with a daemon prince and an inquisitor on the same day, all so he can claim said inquisitor's Nice Hat because she'd refused to give it to him as payment to kill the daemon prince in the first place.

And in the end he even gets out of it with an even better ship than before. In Graham McNeill's Ultramarines novel Nightbringera Dark Eldar pirate is raiding the vessel carrying the Space Marines. The 40k spin-off RPG Rogue Trader has space pirates human or otherwise as one of the most common enemies, and the rules let you go pirate if you wish. The Rogue Traders count to some extent as well, being privateers able and expected to launch full-scale planetary invasions.

One of the supplements to the gameline, Hostile Acquisitions, explicitly gives the players the option to become a Reaver or brokerage firms in indianapolis Swashbuckler archetype. Additionally, the game also has plain ol' human Space Pirates who act pretty much identically to regular stereotypical pirates. Furthermore, the entire point of the setting is flying around in wooden sailing ships in space, and in the introduction to the setting the author mentions that they designed the setting's rules with the thought of a pirate standing on the deck of his ship— in space —as a guiding image.

Piracy is alive and well in the BattleTech universe due to the relative ease of capturing most recharging JumpShips, though actual independent pirate and bandit groups are seen mostly in the Periphery beyond the reach of either the Clans or the Great Houses.

They don't so much attack civilian shipping as they raid poorly defended worlds directly, though. A number of particularly large pirate bands have banded up and attempted to go 'legitimate' and set themselves up as an actual nation, such as the Oberon Confederation or Circinus Federation. Suzie Morgraine-Ryan and her band of Periphery pirates display all the traits of the second option, as a deliberate affectation. Ryan herself dresses in Caribbean-style pirate garb, uses archaic words like "thou" and "thee," and even wears an eyepatch.

Thanks to his translation matrix latching onto Earth pirate culture, he speaks and dresses like a stereotypical pirate.

Piracy is part of the Traveller universe, and pirates vary widely. The most notable variety are the Vargr corsairs which have considerable force behind them and are considered a respectable profession by other Vargr who are willing to shelter them. This makes them kind of like Barbary Pirates in space.

The above is a general description of piracy in Traveller, but the full version is that the degree in which piracy is a viable career and is even plausible varies to a great extent depending on the traveller version, and, of course, the GM. This makes pirating very hard to do. Raiding a poorly defended planet is a lot more viable.

Other versions usually introduce things that make pirates a lot more powerful, such as reducing system defense boat presence or the creation of trade lanes or the like. Even in CT though, already rich pirates have a better chance of establishing a sustainable operation, since they can afford high technology that makes their job easier, like EM jammers or jump drive disruptors. SPANC Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls features space pirate Catgirls who take part in nefarious capers to win the most loot.

Some of the capers are just there for cuteness, others are space-opera specific, like the Stuck Airlock. The Galactic Marauders from the Champions sourcebook Alien Enemies. Starfleet Battles has the Orion Pirates, a whole race in a game where 'race' means a playable faction of space pirates, of the first type although the picture in the write-up shows a humanoid with a patch-like prosthetic eye, so some apparently affect elements of the second type.

They also do mercenary work particularly when prolonged war has stretched normal militaries thin, and convoys tend to be better protected and have even been known to run cargo for actually legitimate businesses and governments on occasion. Justified in Stars Without Number: Combine this with the installation of a gun taking up valuable space and power on a civilian free trader, and the fragility of ships in a setting without widely available shields, and you have an environment where hanging around in the outer system waiting for a trader to turn up and then holding them hostage is actually viable.

Of course, if the free trader did install a gun, it's going to be quite expensive for everyone concerned. Rocket Age has the Cicilian Brotherhood, a band of pirates founded by the self proclaimed pirate king Arthur Roster, operate from a secret base on Phobos. There are also pirates in the asteroid belt loosely united under an Accord, gearing up for a civil war due to 5OX buying out some crews as privateers. Big Barda is re-imagined as a space pirate in the Ame-Comi Girls line of PVC statues from DC Direct.

Most "pirates" in space sims are simply homicidal maniacs who just go for blowing up your ship first, and get the cargo as an afterthought, since if they really were pirates and wanted the cargo, they would maybe think twice about making the vehicle carrying said cargo going supernova. Brigador 's Spacers are one part ruthless pirates and one part hyperelite hedonists - they raid planet colonies to fund their astronomically sometimes literally expensive lifestyles, make room so they can acclimate to planetside gravity and thus not die or suffer debilitating diseases from spending too long in spaceand carry out a genocidal grudge on planetside humans, who they consider no better than animals there for amusement via torture, and find it insulting that the Spacers share ancestry with the 'soil vermin'.

Celestus has some of the second type, rum and Ahoy! They do steal your resources, though. Eliteone of the earliest space trading games, featured pirates who would attack you between hyperspace jump-points and your destination. Or you could become a pirate yourself. Dangerouscarrying cargo will cause pirates to chase you down in supercruise, and attract pirates that hang out in Navigational beacons and resource extraction zones.

Of note is that they'll go for anything in your cargo, leading to the infamous quote when carrying 30 metric tons of human biowaste: CHECK OUT HOW AWESOME I AM! CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS SHIT? The 'Pirates of the Oceans Unmoving' arc of Sluggy Freelance. That wasn't space; it was an entire PARALLEL UNIVERSE!!! Not to mention that they were kidnapping people and sticking them in their hold for time.

It's also made clear that there are about a million easier ways to do it, but 1 pirates are anti-social, so they don't want live in the villages necessary to survive normally, and 2 they're all a bunch of nerds acting out pirate fantasies.

What's made clear is that there are two ways to do it, neither of which are necessarily easy as both have their problems. Even the ones who choose the community-building method aren't above piracy on those not with the in-group. The webcomic Starslip parodies the second form of this trope with Infra-Redbeard and his crew.

They fly around in an open-decked ship with solar sails, fight with Atom Cutlasses, and otherwise fill every pirate cliche while just happening to be in space. Cutter Edgewise himself was a former Pirate Science officer. These man the Rum Sensors. He still retains the cutlass and eyepatch, and gets a prosthetic leg in a later arc. The story arc started in November in Zap! The Webcomic I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space features a girl who was Come to think of it, so does Vandreadalthough it was three guys in this case.

The webcomic The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! The webcomic ''Zeera The Space Pirate'' is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Except for the fact she never quite gets around to committing any acts of piracy.

Space pirates appeared in one Schlock Mercenary in a print-exclusive tale providing some backstory for Sgt. Schlock, and again in the online comic itself. The comic even hung a lampshade on the economic and physical problems inherent in this type of venture. Of course, they turned out not to be pirates, but guerillas fighting the current government. In the first case piracy was enabled by a Portal Networkin the second by system-wide interdiction of the new "Teraport" drive.

Vaegyr Ward hates being called a pirate. As he points out, he has letters of marque, so he's a privateer. Also, pirates tend to be meaner than him. In Absurd Notionsin a roleplaying game being played by the characters, space pirates turn up whose mannerisms correspond to exaggerated mannerisms of software "pirates".

Namely, a ship preparing to attack opens communication with "j0, SUXX0RZ!! Lampshaded by Asimov, Isaac's character, who responds with "I think I miss the days when pirates said 'Arrr'. Dand is why there was an ancient CORE station orbiting Uranus at the start of the SSDF arc. But once the mineral resources of the outer system dried up piracy ceased to become profitable. King Hippo relates a story to Captain SNES: The Game Masta about the time he raided the space pirates who built Mother Brain The Game Master version.

They came complete with Space Booty and Space-Yarrs. Zap Gun for Hire has "the Pistol Packin' Polaris Packrat "; also, one cyborg ex-asteroid pirate turned Space Marine sergeant, who became rather unpopular for the time brief he lived after this discovery. Also, that guy on the starpirates. In Far from Homethey capture the heroes of the Show Within a Show. Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger has his first encounter with pirates whose careers go messily wrong. And philosophizes about it here.

In Freefallan aspiration. Kyzok and his crew in Episode One of Space Kid Deconstructed in this Irregular Webcomic! Third Derivative set after the events of Metroid Prime 2: Echoesthe Space Pirates have the same functions as from the Metroid series. They are led by both Ridley and Mother Brain. The Space Pirates look to utilize Phazon for their operations on Planet Nemesis. Cassiopeia Quinn is one. In the Runners 'verse we've met two groups of those so far; Harmon's regular pirates out for loot and the bloodthirsty Kagaan-Vas.

Orcelot Rex in the Toonami webcomic Endgame. The primary cast of " Caelum Lex " are space pirates, smuggling, stealing and raiding from their rusty beat-up spaceship. The main characters of The Endless Night are Space Piratesand the podcast mainly focuses on their exploits as they raid and pillage across the galaxy. The browser game Star Pirates is Exactly What It Says on the Tinfrom digging through orbital debris to attacking other players and everything between.

Mighty Moshin Emo Rangersa fan parody of Power Rangers and emo culture, has an episode where the Emo Rangers battle the Rave Pirates from outer space, who have come to infect earth teenagers with their "New Rave" They've become quite the problem in Nexus Gate since space travel became a reality. Space piracy has been TRIED in The Journal Entries more than once, and even on-screenbut between any random merchant ship possibly having just about any damn kind of weaponry including one with a combat android that boarded an attacking vessel and sabotaged its' reactors to explodethe way various space navies tend to go looking for any space pirates mostly because they're bored and curb stomping pirates is funand how much it COSTS to go searching for merchants to try to plunder in the first place, they tend to die without successors.

Pirates show up fairly often in the Chakona Space stories, some of them are just run of the mil pirates out for loot, others are slavers from the Non-Aligned Worlds where slavery of morphs is still allowed.

Imperium Nova has a mechanic for houses to fund piracy around one or more planets, it is frequently described as being "broken". Starwalker is attacked by pirates. This is one of the key events in the StableTimeLoop. The space outlaw who fell in love with a princess from Puppycat's story.

These guys work for Locus and Felixthey act as their personal Mooksand have access to high tech gear that outclasses everyone else on the planet. Though they're status as pirates seems to be an Informed Attributeas they function just as a generic group of mercenaries.

Captain Kaliko and her oil-rig raiders in the Totally Doctor Who animation "The Infinite Quest". Baltazar in the same story fits the trope to some extent, even having a robot parrot.

In some respects he seems an Expy of the Captain from "The Pirate Planet" see abovewith his first scene having him try to turn Earth into diamonds, but is more villainous.

Long John Silver the 23rd in the Duck Dodgers episode "Shiver Me Dodgers". In the Futurama episode " Godfellas ", an unnamed space pirate with three peg legs out of four, parrots on three of his four shoulders, and eyepatches on two of his three eyes menaced the Planet Express Ship with galleon-style spaceships and cannons, vowing to send them to "Davy Jarg's locker" if they don't electronically transfer their space-doubloons, and realizing too late that his children are his only real treasures.

What made it even funnier was Leela's explanation on what Space Pirates are: They're easy to distinguish from other kinds of spaceborne brigands: Sonny Blackbones and the pirates in Galactik Football. They're really more heroic space outlaws but they do have at least one member who likes to say 'Arr! Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors had an all-female crew of the second type in one episode, but they decided to go good at the end.

The Pirate Clans of Exo Squadwho operate from hidden bases in the Outer Planets. By the end of the first story arc, they remain Out of Focus until the second season, when they become allies with the Exo Fleet against the Neo Sapiens. Kanjar Ro and his crew from Batman: The Brave and the Bold. The Animated Series had an episode titled The Pirates of Orion, complete with pirate spaceship, as a possible forerunner to the Orion Syndicate in Star Trek: The Clone Wars offers a more traditional version with the Weequay pirates led by Hondo Ohnaka complete with a monkey-lizard standing in for a parrot and an affinity for the cutlasswho is as likeable as he is cunning.

He managed to take Count Dooku, Anakin Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi all hostage, while still being friendly towards them. Even more alarming, the trio weren't and still aren't completely sure how he did it!

If that's not enough, he was able to briefly duel Anakin with an electrostaff, on a moving tank pilot, no less. In later appearances, he's something of a Friendly Enemy to Obi-Wan. As Obi-Wan pointed out to him, he held both Jedi and Sith hostage, and Jedi don't hold grudges, while Sith very much do. In Defenders of the EarthSala's Sky Pirate Amazon Brigade from The Phantom have become Space Pirates, in keeping with the general 20 Minutes into the Future ethos.

In "The Secret Origins of Darkwing Duck ", Negaduck is said by a very Unreliable Narrator to be raised by space pirates and eventually becomes one himself.

The Megas XLR episode "Space Booty" yes, that is the actual title had a group of Space Pirates led by a Captain Harlock expy. This being Megas they also had a buttload of Humongous Mecha for Coop to smash. Cannonball of the Transformers Cybertron toyline is an actual space pirate, complete with skeleton paint apps and a black swath of paint over half of the top of his face in mimicry of an eyepatch.

Alas, he was not to appear in the series. Long John Scarechrome from Filmation's Ghostbusters is a ghostly cyborg space pirate. Filmation's Ghostbusters is that kind of a show. The Corsair Canards of Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars. Deadeye is a former member. The first episode of Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers has a group of the second type. Oban Star Racers has Lord Furter, a comical example most notable for his incompetence and non-threatening appearance, even though both he and his crew seem to think he's the most bad-ass thing ever.

That's what pirates do, we board ships! In one episode Dex and his crew are captured by space pirates who have imprisoned a giant star fly. An entire skit of The Mr. Men Show was devoted to this trope. Fred even has an annoying robot parrot. The Closest Thing We Got in real life is the unauthorized use of communication satellites. Some of them are simple radio repeaters without complicated authentication mechanisms. One of those incidents happened in when Tamil rebels pirated an Intelsat satellite to transmit their radio and TV propaganda broadcasts [1].

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