Your suggestions make in impossible to roleplay in any enjoyable manner. At any given moment, we are outnumbered by pirates at least 2-1. They usually fly capital ships. They have access to basically the best weaponry and equipment around. They have a nearly limitless source of income. They don't roleplay their factions. And they are generally more experienced pilots than us. We simply cannot combat them using fighters and the limited weaponry you demand. The result would be as it is now, GMG space would be controlled by corsairs, and GMG would be relegated to running and hiding.
We can't even rely on GMG NPCs to aid us, as almost every pirate I've seen was neutral to them. :rolleyes:
