Category:Pirate Guild

Pirate Guild

The Pirate Guild started off as nothing more than a single small space station and two 10,000 meter ship building ways used mostly for repairs.

The DuFromm family [real old world French] had named the system Buccaneers Bay mainly because of Edgar DuFromm’s odd sense of humor more than anything else.

The system catered mainly to pirates, criminals, free-booters, bounty hunters and those that were less than welcome in most other systems.

The DuFromms ran a tight station and charged exorbitant fees for anything and everything they could, but they were honest about it and could get nearly anything you wanted and often acted as a more open station for black market goods than Sargasso Deeps.

Over the first millennium the DuFromm family slowly expanded Bucanneer’s Bay into a huge operation that contained hundreds of ship buildings ways [now used to actually build ships]; another thing that the DuFromm family had done over the millenium had been to sign agreements with various pirate clans stating that the clans would get discounts for a portion of their captured loot.

 Finally the DuFromms called in their markers and pretty much took over the hundreds of pirate clans

It took another 300 years for the DuFromms to consolidate their power over most of the galactic piracy and then Patriarch Constantine DuFromm created a new government and crowned himself the Pirate King [Constantine wasn’t exactly the most stable of the DuFromms]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At first the Pirate Guild continued in active piracy but stopped when threatened by action from the various star nations.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Although the Pirate Guild has officially stopped it’s pirating ways it is not uncommon to find PG ships still plundering the ships as it’s enemies or picking off single ships or small convoys whenever it gets a chance to in out of the way places.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Pirate Guild Navy is organized by fleets exactly like the UNSF has theirs the major difference being that besides their normal navy forces there is any number of additional “Pirate” ships that can be called upon to add their numbers to the PGN.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Pirate Guild has no core of standing troops to protect planetary systems and the only troop like personnel to be found are what is generally called Buccaneers aboard the ships that act as boarders for mostly boarding actions.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As would be expected from a government that styles themselves as pirates the PGN Insignia is white skull and crossbones on a field of black, however each fleet has their own specific insignia but each is very similar to the core insignia.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Uniforms of the Pirate guild consists solely of a black mono-film duty suit that has the fleet insignia over the heart with the name and rank below this, there is no other insignia on the suit.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">PGN Skin Suits are set up exactly the same as the Mono-Film Duty Suits save that the helmets of the suit are completely black [even the visor] and a leering white skull is depicted on the front.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It should be noted that when off-duty GN personnel can either wear the full uniform [including jacket] or a metallic version of their mono-film duty suit [most opt for the duty suit as it is more comfortable].

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It should be noted that when off-duty GN personnel can either wear the full uniform [including jacket] or a metallic version of their mono-film duty suit [most opt for the duty suit as it is more comfortable].

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The GN has a single massive strategic asset that holds the entire Buccaneer Bay shipyards and was later transferred to an Aries-Class Space Station and is used as a military and civilian building and repair yard as well as a depot for the Navy.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Over its long history, the Guild Navy has used hundreds of different weapons and armor some of which are still in service [albeit either as training aids or stowed away in some soldier’s locker].

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The following equipment is what can still be found in service with the Guild Naval Forces –

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Guild Navy operates a three fleets headed by single Titan-Range vessel and includes several hundred ships.