The reason we gave pirates the exemption is that we had a hard time justifying not giving it to them, and trust me I tried. But I refuse to do anything I cannot really justify. And I won;t come up with some bullcrap justification just to appease my own conscience. Also it was figured given the distance most pirate bases are from decent piracy hot spots, getting back to base would be challenge enough. And then if they were dumb enough to jump back into the fire they just extricated themselves from, well. They deserve to carry on.
Pirates, Miners and traders it applies to. Folks running around in poor man's gunboats it don't, my very own Xeno AT is one it doesn't for example, as that's used primarily to make folks cry.
Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.