![]() ![]() Pirates are generally hostile to all factions. Beware when boarding Marauder vessels, however, as many of them are fitted with self-destruct systems and can explode during boarding attempts. As mission-spawned ships, they will persist upon leaving the system or landing on a planet. Marauder hunting jobs will be offered beginning about halfway between combat rating level 6 and 7 (at exactly 600 cumulative enemy crewmen killed, about level 6.39) and will require you to search systems up to 3 jumps away from the source.īounty ships can be boarded and captured, which will satisfy the terms of the bounty contract and allow you to collect payment. Marauders, on the other hand, tend to travel in groups, and often use highly customized ships. Pirate bounties become available at around combat rating 6 (your save file must have a combat rating of at least 300 points, which is approximately level 5.7), and consist of a single pirate vessel located in a random system up to 2 hyper jumps away from the planet offering the bounty. There are two basic classes of pirate bounties: ordinary pirates, and marauders. Players who have proven themselves in space combat may be offered bounty missions from the jobs screen. Katya Reynolds, former Dirt Belt Parliament representative Bounties They're more like street kids than like hardened criminals." "In the galactic south, the average age of a pirate crew member is seventeen years old. Brother Greg, Harmony monastery pirate outreach coordinator They're just anarchists, just ordinary people unlucky enough to be born there, or people who feel unwelcome everywhere else." "It's worth noting that most people on the 'pirate' worlds are not pirates. The details of governance on pirate-controlled worlds varies wildly, but the bribes required to land are effectively the same across the galaxy, and pirate ships and crews tend to be drearily consistent. They also offer a variety of lucrative and risky jobs, many of which will upset Navy ships which manage to scan your cargo hold. Pirate worlds are nearly the only source of advanced (and sometimes illegal) hand-to-hand combat tools civilians can buy. Pirates and anarchists have claimed a number of relatively undesirable or remote systems on the outskirts of human space, from which they make regular raids on merchant shipping. Swarthy, dangerous-looking women glance at you as you pass by, and scantily clad men crowd around the bars. It is almost like the stories of ancient Earth, except that the eye patches are cybernetic implants and the peg legs are motorized prosthetics. Half the storefronts are bars, and rum seems to be on the menu everywhere. This is the sort of spaceport you picture in your head when you think of pirates. ![]()
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