Scallywaggery

Aaaarrrrrgggghhhh Matey

Pirates are funny. The story of pirates begins during the time of the great global colonization of the Americas/Africa/Asia continents by Europeans. These “discoverers” floated around the Atlantic looking to plant a British, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Italian flag on anything in the Western Hemisphere in order to enrich themselves and write their history.

When these Europeans discovered spice, sugar, gold and other precious earth materials in these new lands, they would ship them back home across the Atlantic, and pirates were created by competing countries, in order to rob the rival countries of their booty before it could reach home. They called themselves privateers, a clear attempt to polish a turd if you ask me. Granted, some of these scallywags were made up of people with no loyalty to any flag, but these types of pirates were few and far between but absolute menaces and I admire that. Having loyalty to a country helped “privateers” to a certain degree if they ever were captured or failed. They carried a note known as the “letter of marque” which told their captures who they work for, and it was a sort of gentleman's agreement between nations to not kill their prisoners.

This is the foundation all modern day naval activity. Securing your countries interests. That's why a bunch of American navy people think of themselves as pirates. A lot of them do some shady shit too.