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I'm sorry, but an armed gunship from space should be allowed to kill freely. It's kind of unreasonable to ask the space pirates to ransom and loot the station, give them a ton of guns, give them a ship that the station must seek out and destroy, BUT HAVE THE CLAUSE TO WHERE THEY CANNOT KILL FREELY. My argument is that while interesting situations can come out of pirates, they should be able to actually be space pirates: killing people, taking swag, and owning the station. If you allow the other gunship full of people with weapons that the station has to kill, nuke ops, murderbone, why wouldn't pirates be allowed to as well.zxaber wrote:Pirates mass murdering is about sending a message, nothing more. The crew committed to this course of action when they refused to pay the initial ransom.
The initial message even mentions making people "walk the plank" if the money isn't surrendered, and does not actually specify anyone specific, implying they plan on killing all crew members they find.
Pirates that just ignore stealing valuables to murderbone aren't the super best at RP, but they are performing the job of punishing an uncooperative victim. Threats don't mean anything if not backed up, after all, and a threat of "give use money or we'll come get it ourselves and maybe kill anyone we happen to cross" doesn't carry the same weight as "pay us or we kill the lot of you" .