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The pirates will still be rapacious (mercy would ruin their business model) but only to the poor. Isn’t that actually worse?

In modern SFF, you can’t have a warrior or pirate who kills and rapes and pillages without a thought, no one would accept that. So you end up with anachronistic and/or absurd characters and situations like this one. Because if the pirates take bribes to not attack or even protect trading ships- what about the smaller, poorer operators who can’t afford to pay?

I can tell this is my kind of book, cause even though it’s about space pirates, it’s actually just about the interactions between the two leads XD That’s exactly how I write too.