Why Piracy fails in traveller......

[captainjack23]

Putting aside economic, political and astonomical arguments about why piracy wouldn't work in the OTU, I think we forget one important reason...they're tards.

Pirates Make Terrible Mistake

Approached Boat at 'Great Speed'
Missed One Very Important Detail

Oops, Pirates Rush French Military Ship
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(May 4) - The French Navy said they seized 11 pirates Sunday after they apparently mistook a French military vessel for a commercial ship and made a run at it off the coast of Kenya.
Two pirate assault boats approached the Nivose "at great speed," Capt. Christophe Prazuck said, but a French helicopter intervened before the attackers had time to fire at the French navy ship

Thers a pretty amusing picture with the article -two crappy "adventure class" speedboats full of a surrendering crew, with a big grey french frigate close at hand.

I mean, really. It's grey. It's got helicopters, a radar mast with French and NATO flags, and a BIG number F732 painted on its big grey side RIGHT BELOW THE BIG ASS TURRET. Come on man, this isn't a Q ship......You can see the freakin deck guns.


Dear god......(what is the code for that purple head shaking smiley ?)

 

[BP]

...
I mean, really. It's grey. It's got helicopters, a radar mast with French and NATO flags, and a BIG number F732 painted on its big grey side RIGHT BELOW THE BIG ASS TURRET. Come on man, this isn't a Q ship......You can see the freakin deck guns.

Well, in their defense [snicker], it was a FRENCH ship... :lol:

 

[alex_greene]

Well, pretty obviously quick thinking saved their lives. They at least managed to inform the ship that they were pirates, and not, after all, from Greenpeace ...

 

[rust]

Picking the wrong ship has become a kind of Somali pirates' tradition:
http://africomwatch.blogspot.com/2009/03/somali-pirates-pick-on-wrong-ship.html

And if I remember it right, there was at least one other similar incident
with a naval supply ship from eastern Europe. :lol:

 

[dmccoy1693]

*chuckle*

 

[BP]

...They at least managed to inform the ship that they were pirates, and not, after all, from Greenpeace ...

:lol: :lol: ouch - stop that - I think I hurt my spleen...

 

[BP]

Picking the wrong ship has become a kind of Somali pirates' tradition...

conversation overhead on Somali pirate vessel KnotMiTang:
No, no Jakeem - it says right here in my 'Dummy's Guide to Pirating', in Chapter 2 - victim selection - that any ship on the high seas...

 

[Tobias]

Picking the wrong ship has become a kind of Somali pirates' tradition:
http://africomwatch.blogspot.com/2009/03/somali-pirates-pick-on-wrong-ship.html

And if I remember it right, there was at least one other similar incident
with a naval supply ship from eastern Europe. :lol:

Well, it is not unreasonable that somebody would mistake a replenishment vessel for a civilian tanker - it basically is one. But a frigate?

 

[rust]

Well, it is not unreasonable that somebody would mistake a replenishment vessel for a civilian tanker - it basically is one.

There would be a rather simple rule for inexperienced pirates:
"If it is grey and has a number painted at the bow: No !"

 

[dmccoy1693]

There would be a rather simple rule for inexperienced pirates:
"If it is grey and has a number painted at the bow: No !"

That will be in the 2nd edition of 'Dummy's Guide to Pirating'.

 

[MongooseMatt]

_If_ you believe everything that is in that report. . .

I've been following the Somali pirates for a while now (well, it's a hobby), and I am not certain that absolutely everything that appears about them in the media is pucker, as they say.

 

[rust]

From what I did read in another article, written by a journalist on the
French frigate Nivose, the captain of the frigate knew about the pre-
sence of pirates in the area and did his best to trick them into belie-
ving that they were chasing a freighter, for example by "fleeing" in the
direction of the setting sun to prevent the pirates from recognizing his
ship, and then turning around and attacking them when he was sure
that he had drawn them far enough out to sea to make an escape im-
possible.

It seems that inexperienced pirates met a clever tactician ... :wink:

 

[AndrewW]

There would be a rather simple rule for inexperienced pirates:
"If it is grey and has a number painted at the bow: No !"

But then civilian ships would start doing that...

 

[Infojunky]

Well, pretty obviously quick thinking saved their lives. They at least managed to inform the ship that they were pirates, and not, after all, from Greenpeace ...

Now that brings back pleasent memories......

Sinking Greenpeace Zodiacs with fire hoses......

They wouldn't let us drop the anchor on them......

 

[captainjack23]

From what I did read in another article, written by a journalist on the
French frigate Nivose, the captain of the frigate knew about the pre-
sence of pirates in the area and did his best to trick them into belie-
ving that they were chasing a freighter, for example by "fleeing" in the
direction of the setting sun to prevent the pirates from recognizing his
ship, and then turning around and attacking them when he was sure
that he had drawn them far enough out to sea to make an escape im-
possible.

It seems that inexperienced pirates met a clever tactician ... :wink:

even better - and , if that was a game, how many of the players would be bitching :

"what do you mean we missed our spot roll on a Frigate ? "

"you made your spot roll,...barely....you just didn't ID the ship correctly."


"ITS A FRIGATE FER CHRIST SAKE !"

"Um...the captain made his tactics roll for an effect of eight."

"Killer GM ! Killer GM !"

 

[captainjack23]

There would be a rather simple rule for inexperienced pirates:
"If it is grey and has a number painted at the bow: No !"

But then civilian ships would start doing that...

Simple Pirate nursery rhyme:

"White or yellow, rob the fellow, *
Guns on Back...run like frak"



* Hull colors.

 

[Infojunky]

Should the concept of Pirate nursery rhymes bother so?

 

[Gaidheal]

Been following this issue, especially Somalian, for more than a decade now - there are some even funnier (for military types, anyway) incidents that didn't make the news because noone cared at the time.

 

[saundby]

"Yes, my hearties, it's a frigate. But think. If we pull this off..."

 

[towerwarlock]

Pirate Captain: Look, a French Warship, Lower the Jolly Roger and raise the CNN!

Pirate Crew: Why sir?

Pirate Captain: Because they never fire on a news crew!