I don't know if I have a pirate leader mind indeed... I like clear situations and stable, well-organized empires... just the opposite of pirate organizations in fact.
BTW, have someone ever done any pirate dedicated shipset ? I'm thinking about my next shipset, and I'm aiming in that direction, even if pirate life seems not to be my cup of thea. That's a work I dedicate in advance to Suicide Junkie and the great work he has produced for P&N mod.
I've got a clear idea of what kind of look I would like for my ships :
source :
http://www.shipschematics.net
Perhaps it will remind to some japanese mangas fans an artist called Leiji Matsumoto...
Maybe I'm totally wrong in my idea to draw such a shipset, because pirates don't build their own ships, if I well understood the philosophy ?