Pirate Haven: Whats yours will soon be ours!

[Stormlion1]

Hendrik Grimm, Redjack Ryan, Lady Death, The Red Corsair, Vance Rezak, and Susie "One-Eye" Morgraine-Ryan, names that have struck fear into the Inner Sphere and the Periphery. Pirates and Bandit Kingdom leaders that have terrorized the Periphery for the last several decades. But Piracy isn't what it used to be. Sure Pirates were once the scourge of every goverment, and still are a threat even during the Jihad. But they don't get much screen time anymore. So to hopefully get them some screen time I give thethis pirate thread.

First question for everyone to discuss, who was the original Red Corsair? And whatever happened to her?

[AirmanR]

She was killed in action, her head mounted on a pike and lofted high over the might of the Raven Alliance! HURRAH!

[truetanker]

Nekane Hazen

Nelson Geist killed her. She was a Crusader Jade Falcon. Specifically she had a Battlemaster -1Gb, with clanmade weapons instead of the SL versions. With three tons left, either used Clan FF to the max or another DHS. May have used an ECM as well, placed in the head.

TT

[Terminax]

The original Red Corsair was Katrina Steiner when she ran off to the Periphery with Arthur Luvon, cousin of the Kell brothers.

[Arkansas Warrior]

Nekane Hazen

Nelson Geist killed her. She was a Crusader Jade Falcon. Specifically she had a Battlemaster -1Gb, with clanmade weapons instead of the SL versions. With three tons left, either used Clan FF to the max or another DHS. May have used an ECM as well, placed in the head.

TT

Hazen was the third Red Corsair, IIRC.  Katrina Steiner was the second, when she was on the lamb from Alessandro.  IIRC there was one before whom Katrina was impersonating though.

[Stormlion1]

In one of the books a theory was put forward that it was possible Hazen was the original Red Corsair returned, by taking a ship and going faster than light or somesuch probably now, non-canon nonsense.

[Hawkeye Jim]

While you folks discuss, I'm going to sneak in and steal all your ration packs. There's a good market for those among the pirate folks.

[truetanker]

I use Clan MREs... from the golden years! HAHAHA }:)

No seriously, if the Manassas can do it, why not?

TT

[CPLT-C1]

Have there ever actually been any published pirate related scenarios?

[Rainbow 6]

There are on BattleCorps and the (2nd?) unit brief was for a Pirate band operating in the Taurian Concordat during the 3rd succession war.

[tekteam26]

Does anyone remember the short fictional piece in the original Star League Sourcebook where the "heavily armed pirate JumpShips and DropShips" quickly move to capture a civilian DropShip? It certainly gave the impression that the pirates' JumpShip had something more powerful than a mere stationkeeping drive.

Maybe they were using an ancient Tracker?

[Taurianspy]

Royalty and Rogues had a pirate based senerio pack.  Old Battletech mags had several senario printed as well.  One I really enjoyed was a captive breakout and escape senario.

[Stormlion1]

Does anyone remember the short fictional piece in the original Star League Sourcebook where the "heavily armed pirate JumpShips and DropShips" quickly move to capture a civilian DropShip? It certainly gave the impression that the pirates' JumpShip had something more powerful than a mere stationkeeping drive.

Maybe they were using an ancient Tracker?

Had more to do with the threat to the jumpship, probably by fighters or jumpships with mounted weapons. Remember most jumpships are relativly undefended and a somewhat more armed raider is a big threat especially to a passanger jumpship. Plus pirates don't abide the Ares conventions either so wasting a jumpship full of civvies is acceptable to them.

[Rainbow 6]

Had more to do with the threat to the jumpship, probably by fighters or jumpships with mounted weapons. Remember most jumpships are relativly undefended and a somewhat more armed raider is a big threat especially to a passanger jumpship. Plus pirates don't abide the Ares conventions either so wasting a jumpship full of civvies is acceptable to them.

Only after you've borded them and stollen all the valubles and taken as many slaves as you can carry.

[Medron Pryde]

Remember, when the Star League was printed there was no hard and fast difference between warships and jumpships.  The modern WarShip and JumpShip differentiation had not yet been codified into rules.

Based on that, whenever I see a mention of armed or combat jumpships in those earliest books, I generally assume it means a pre-Star League style barely moving JumpShip, whether it be something as old as the Aquilla or a dedicated actual WarShip hull.

[Stormlion1]

Some jumpships are armed, maybe with nothing more than pop guns, but still armed. The Invader carrys a pair of Large Lasers or two PPC's for instance. So its possible something else could be attached as well.