Pirating more than once

[Muleo]

Well, the demand has been made. The trader refused, and died.
Seems kinda silly to have to remake that demand, especially if you know the trader isn't going to pay.
You start shooting, the trader OBVIOUSLY knows what's going on. If he doesn't say 'stop i'll pay ya', I guess he's ignoring your demands again..

So doesn't this still comply with the rules in a roundabout way? The demand has been made, just that the traders died in between? This doesn't make much sense in terms of RP, but a trader going the same route doesn't either, so nothing can be done there..

The rules say that Xoria is correct.

And the second a pirate becomes a pirate, the trader is able to fire in self defense. The pirate still needs to make a monetary demand before making the trader go boom.

I have been informed the one and only way is if their are two pirates that are grouped. In that instance, only one of the groups members needs to make the demand, it can be assumed that all in the group are also pirates.