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A peaceful pirate

"I only take cargo, no lives" that's what I say to them freighters everytime I interdict/manifest scan one. The war has already taken too many lives, we don't need anymore dead. Don't get me wrong, pirates still thrive, and at this point, it's more like a lifestyle than anything else, but after all, I'm a pirate, not a terrorist.

A good pirate is a good pilot, and a good pilot knows how to outfit his ship, before heading out for a naughty day, I get to the hangar to make sure everything is in place, the exact modules I need, no more, no less.

We start with the intersting part first: guns. Meanwhile those Pacifier fragment cannons look intimidating, they will be retracted as soon as the victim's shield is down, it's when the pack-hounds do their job: they put the victim's drive to rest, leave them with no way to escape.

This is where the art of piracy comes in, while the victim is floating there, it's time for your limpets to work, cargo dropped, end of the job, no one has to die. Of course if you're the victim, consider calling the Hull Seals later, I said I wouldn't kill, didn't mean I have free taxi service.

Now let's get to the job.

Let's start with a small fish first.

And of course, before I can actually see a ship that potentially has cargo, I was greeted at first with someone of my very own profession:

As sad as it sounds, working on the same job wouldn't exactly mean we're friends. He didn't want me to compete with him in piracy in this site, neither did I, so a scan exchange became some lead exchange after a couple of seconds

I just casually followed my normal procedure, kill his drive, get his stuff, like any other cargo ship.

The pirate did actually have some cargo, but somehow my stupid limpets didn't get to collect them. The real fight sometimes is your limpets' duration and AI, not the ships.

So I just moved on.

Name is Pete Slaughter, but no one's getting slaughtered today. I approached him with my manifest scanner, he started running as soon as his ship detected my scan. No word, no negotiation, dude just started boosting away.

"Pew, pew, pew" and his shield was off, and sometimes, like this time, half his hull as well. You run some powerful weapons, gotta be easy on the trigger, they're just too powerful for these civillians.

Now it's time for the pack-hounds:

A couple of missiles later and his drive was Slaughtered.

Now it's the time:

As I left the guy floating away while he probably was contacting Fuel Seals (and maybe dumbfounded why I didn't destroy his rear), I went back to collect the cargo.

There should be more to pirate, but I was craving for a drink, a short break after these "stressful" encounters.

Just a bit of credits, but should be enough for a couple of drinks.

That's almost a day of a "Peaceful Pirate". Remember, no casualties involved if you do it right!

Fly Dangerously o7