On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> When we look at what is happening now on the Earth we see a few things. > [...] >> Douglas E Knapp > > And you can't possibly imagine a pirate who is the real hero > of the story, fighting the evil governor. Historical pirates > didn't live up to that standard, either, but Hollywood left > us our illusions, or created them :-)
Sure I could. Somalian pirates the movie: Cut to man and pregnant wife in a desperate medical situation. Man is super poor and needs money to pay off the money over humanity, piggy western doctor to save his wife and unborn child. He gets job with others that are also suffering at the hands of the greedy western capitalist pigs from a han-solo sort of pirate captain. They form a group and vow to save their families by capturing one of these pig's ships and holding it for ransom. Then then do so and are very heroic and even save a pig from death at the risk of their own lives. In the mean time they do other honorable things. They are really good guys in a very bad country with little choice but they are trying to make the best of it in an honorable if illegal way. After capture they then treat the prisoners very nicely, giving the captives their last bit of food to keep them health. They then get the money from imperialist pigs (lets make it an oil tanker, with record profits while they rip off the USA) and then go on to save their families and even give some to the local orphanage with the wonderful ransom money. Then then sail off into the sunset and live happily ever after. All you need is the right perspective. -- Douglas E Knapp Why do we live? _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
