There’s a holodeck episode in there somewhere
According to that image French privateering ended before two of those other things started, right?
Am I missing something?
That‘s the reason for elderly French pirate. The people involved didn’t just disappear because privateering ended.
Some say there are pirates to this very day, and that they sail a sea that holds no water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Somalia
There are pirates right now, and they are sailing on water.
They just don’t , you know, dress up like old timey pirates.
I don’t think a pirate being as young as 12 would have been impossible, so they could be in their 50s too.
I built a one-shot around this idea on a heavily-modded Tiny D6 system, letting people choose which of the 4 they wanted to be with variants like wealthy or scientific Victorian, captain or gunner pirate, disgraced or retired Samurai, cattle driver or 49’er, and so forth. I set it in San Francisco to get some good conflux of cultures.
Of my 4 players, 3 of them chose to be rich Victorians. facepalm
I keep saying I’m going to play a PC based on Kingo Nonaka.
But in my version he would have also briefly been a Pacific ocean pirate during his journey from Japan to Mexico.
There’s a cowboy in Dracula
