Just what canonical pirates there are around circa the Dark Age?
Because, unless we count the Marians as pirates, i don't know any. Is Tortuga still around?
Plus what would be recommended reading material, beyond Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions (even if it is unfortunately some 60-70 years behind the current time)?
This question popped in my mind today, got a vague idea for something pirate related but i realized all i know about them was that there was Oberon Confederation and others in coreward Periphery. Until the Clans wiped those out.
No the Marians are not pirates whatever the FWL say
As for Pirates, I think that Tortuga is still there and unless they occupy and leave garrison in the worlds of Tortuga they will resurface again.
Outside of that there are many more pirates
The Worlds of Circinus are a pirate's cave, as well as the area of space behind them, between New St Andrews and towards the former worlds of the RWR behind Lira, this in the Fluff Marian of 3145, the I Legio and another Legio that I do not remember were dedicated to making at least Four Campaigns to decimate what came out of that area, the I Legion was in charge of 10/15 bands of variable size in those campaigns and the troops of New St Andres quite often collide with various bands pirates, ditto the Lotharians
There are also pirates in the areas surrounding the Fronc, and another area where there are mentions of piracy are in the independent worlds of Marik that did not join the NFWL between the Rim Commonality and Andurien, if we are to the case there are mentions of small pirate gangs in worlds close to the Republic, to know if those are pirates or Black Ops from one of the many states in the area