: But isn't that like saying no-one can escape from a jail
: because the guards would stop them?
Well, replace "no-one" with "too few prisoners to successfully raid a city," and "guards" with "guards and a big honkin' ocean." But other than that, spot on. ;-)
: 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!
Speaking as a member of Creation (albeit one who joined after this particular project), we're very flattered that people would mistake that for genuine Bungie-issued Fact™, but it ain't. Completely made up. All we really know, again, is that single flavor text and the very slight expansion in GURPS.
: 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.
Actually I was thinking of this as evidence that Leix is a genuine sovereign power in its own right; most famous pirates of the past have been soldiers of a sort, targeting one country's ships with the acquiescence (and sometimes financial backing) of a rival country.
--SiliconDream
