[Colonel]

Privateers, When you make a design you should have a choos to make it a privateer ship, the difference between pirates and privateers is that a pirate would be its own race and a privateer would be a ship you control but it has a hidden race. The draw back is the more ships you have in porportion to the size of your empire the more chance you have at getting caught. So if you have a huge empire and say 10-15 privateers you would have a small chance to getting caught but if you had the same amount and a small empire you would have a large chance of getting caught