Re: Pirate Havens in the GZG-verse

Another thought on this, is that instead of the pirates having some
secret
base, out there on it's own, why not have them have "unofficially
sanctioned havens" in other "nations" territory.

Think about it this way.  Say the NAC and the NSL aren't on really good
terms.	Not openly hostile, but not really friendly either.  The NSL has
colonies and support bases that are in the "boonies", so to speak.  If
there happen to be unregistered freebooters who come there to trade
goods,
refit, and rearm, why should the NSL care that most of the trade goods
are
actually obtained by force of arms from NAC shipping, in NAC space? 
There
is no open hostility on the part of the NSL.  They just don't enforce
NAC
laws on neutral parties who want to trade or operate at their bases.

Now you have a foundation for pirates having someplace to go.  This is
not
that far from the Letters of Marque given to "privateers" in the 1700s.
:)

John

John K. Lerchey
Computer and Network Security Coordinator
Computing Services
Carnegie Mellon University