Piracy 101

[Dusty Lens]

I found a moment to duck into the internets and decided to peek through the forum for half a moment when I spotted this thread. I found it to be a veritable cornucopia of goodly and sound advice but it left me with a puzzler.

Where does the Xeno practice of demanding that the bulk of their prey dump the entirety of their cargo or face all manner of bad times fit into your worldview? - Note that everything following this sentence is simply context setting fluff, that's the key question.

Naturally we don't pull much personal profit from this, in fact I believe I'm the only Xeno that I've ever seen ply his trade in anything larger than a bomber (two noted special gunboats aside) so we generally don't even haul a load of valuable cargo back as some pirates enjoy doing (I know of several who celebrate in demanding exorbitant sums in the knowledge that getting the green light to kill their targets will grant them a net advantage in the sale of their haul).

So, our standard rule of thumb is to demand you relinquish the entirety of your haul (I make many exceptions, to broadcasting messages of support for our movement etc depending on the perceived "quality" of the individual I encounter in addition to their IFF's nationality) which is pretty stiff to say the least. 90% of the time it results in a brawl. So, yar, two cents?