From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Tue 25 Jan 2000 - 21:13:13 EET
Nils Weinander:
> ANyway, I think the Sea of Fog is a
> natural place for pirates to flock to. Easy to hide in,
> difficult for punitive expeditions to search efficiently.
Indeed so. There's the small detail of the area being dominated
by Zabdamar merfolk, though, as well as being more than a tad difficult
to navigate even if left unmolested, so it's far from a free lunch.
The Fog Pirates must have some smei-reliable means of doing so,
it would seem; others, like the Tsankthi and the Ratuki probably
lurk around the fringes, where they can discourage reprisals
from the nations of the region, without risking the more dangerous
parts of the Fog.
> IMO, the Mokato empire effectively cleared the eastern seas
> outside the Se of Fog from pirates. I suggest that the
> tradition for the pirates to go there en masse started at
> that time.
I suppose that would explain why the most well-known and apparently
large-scale piratical up Oop t'North. Mind you, since Mokato's
Elegant Decline, there's been plenty of mind for new-fangled
cut-throat schemes to be devised, and old ones revived, if perhaps
on a less megalomaniac basis.
Cheers,
Alex.
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