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** Salvage laws can be so incomprehensibly torturous that there are several very valuable wrecks whose locations are known today that have not been recovered because the value of the booty would be offset by legal fees.
* A Letter of Marque is basically a government license to plunder and act like a pirate. It's even explicitly authorized in the US Constitution! Though, spoil-sports in the 19th century agreed not to authorize them any more, and it is considered a war crime today.
**For which advancement they substituted by using submariners on naval pay which were to small to carry prisoners, to fragile to stay on the surface long enough to collect a prize, and satisfied to fight for destruction rather then plunder.
* Real treasure of course often has a bunch of tough dudes guarding it, naturally enough. Which makes it a good idea to stay away from it. That is why the optimal pirate booty is simply slaves. It is fairly easy to gut a small coastal village and get away before the local [[The Patriarch|chief,]] [[The Sheriff|Sheriff]] or [[Feudal Overlord]] comes down with a posse,even assuming he exists and cares about the matter and has enough muscle to interfere. And slaves will sell well. Gold and jewels while glamorous are [[Sarcasm Mode|more important things]] then the freedom of strangers and hence will have a lot of attention paid to it.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Servants of the Imperium]]'': The initial plot arc follows the party as they race to find the hoard of a crew of legendary [[Space Pirates]].
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