Based on my communique from dis, I have chosen to play as the SPACE PIRATES.
Or should I say...the PIRATES SPATIALES.
"Piracy is another word for the exercise of freedom." So wrote the great hero Apollinaire Delespacé, Last Tyrant of the Line Worldship Lafitte, Heroic Age founder of La Société de Libérés, crusher of the Root English barbarians and etc, etc...first great Pirate of recorded times. The mythic history of Laterre, that ancient, fictional planet from which humankind supposedly stemmed, has many stories of great pirates, who sailed the world-ocean in their frighteningly primitive carbon-based flotation devices. But we admire such tales, tales of heroes who fought against authority, out of greed perhaps, or out of desire to craft their own world on the fringe of humanity. Remember the words of Victoire Esparel, the famous Empereuse des Pirates of the early Third Age. She famously said, "The fringe of the universe is everywhere, and everywhere the howling wind. Security brings indolence, and indolence, self-destruction. By living desperately on the edge of all things, we cut quite the rakish figure."
The institution of chaos as a society is as novel a concept today as it was some 2000 years ago. But it is not chaos in the purest sense. What we know, and what the fat, drunken peoples grown like plants in their terrariums do not, is that we only seek to overthrow their society because it is stupid and annoying. We do not seek to abolish order, but create a universe that is enjoyable. We do not seek to destroy human society, but to create one where individuals can be just that, and cause as many explosions as they see fit to cause. This is why the pirate will always exist, because we are a beloved parasite. In all their supposed revulsion, those upon whom we prey truly wish to be like us.
So yes, we are a strange society, though our way of life seems natural to us. Each man his own master, forming associations by bonds of respect and admiration, not by the diktat of a distant oligarchical authority. We take from those less fortunate than us, because we, as humans, have the right to build our own paradise. We are simply better than the planetbound cows.
-Introduction, Intermediate Training Curriculum for the Young Pirate or Piratess, Nouvelle Société de Libérés
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