[Spyder]

Well, both ideas (to me) were half-ideas. The nomads couldn't make it unless they were pirates, and, pirates wouldn't work (very well) unless they were nomads. Combining them made sense. Both need shipboard capabilities for normally planet-bound activities.

Pirates (not privateers) had bases of operation, but, they were not continents or countries, they were isolated islands away from scrutiny, and they moved when discovered. Consequently, SEIV Pirates would not have a planet, but, a constantly moving base of operations...nomadic.


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Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

[This message has been edited by Spyder (edited 02 March 2001).]