: Yeah, which is a strike against the "prison
: colony" idea. I really have no idea why people
: seem so positive that Leix is a prison colony, unless
: there's some text I missed somewhere that comes right
: out and says it. Why would a prison colony have the
: resources to become pirates, anyway? Generally, when
: you establish and maintain such a colony, you try to
: make it next-to-impossible for the prisoners to get
: ships and weapons; that's kind of the point. I suppose
: the guards could have been distracted by or sent off
: to the war in the East, but it still seems pretty
: unlikely. You need a *lot* of ships to be able to loot
: and burn a big chunk of a city and escape alive.
But isn't that like saying no-one can escape from a jail
because the guards would stop them?
An earlier message in this thread said that Leix was a prison colony that rebelled after 3 weeks of fighting.
The only place where Leixian pirates have been used (to my
knowledge) in an actual myth level, was in the Coming of
Dark package by Creation. Embedded within this are the
following flavour texts:-
"The feud between Leix and Tyr goes back to the Wind Age,
when the island of Leix, a prison colony under Tyrian rule,
rebelled and started one of the bloodiest riots in Tyrian
history"
"...For nigh on seventy years the pirates had not dared to
approach Tyr... While Maeldun was leader of the Tyrian
Guard, they knew an assault would be futile..."
"Mr. Grippe, hoist the mainsail,' said the captain. 'Aye
aye, sir,' replied the burly Second Mate, and the Pirate's Revenge, along with ten other battleships, sailed on Tyr..."
"I found myself face to face with the Pirate Captain. I had
apparently been fighting mindless thrall and undisciplined
gangsters for too long as I was unprepared for such a worthy opponent..."
Did the Creation guys make this up, or did they get it
from somewhere? Whatever - its pretty good!
OK, it appears we don't know whether Leix was a prison,
or that they rebelled, or that they had anything at all to
do with Tyr before attacking. All we know is that they
were pirates, hence sea-based, and that they attacked Tyr
while no-one was home to defend it.
Thankfully, none of this hurts Bubba's idea of a scenario based on Maeldun's retribution :)
BTW, when Spain was the dominant power in Europe and
controlled the seas, the English & Dutch were regarded as
pirates, and they often did things like raiding & burning
coastal towns controlled by the Spanish.
Its only because the English eventually won that people
like Francis Drake were made out to be heroes rather than
evil villains.
Cheers,
-Andrew
