If you are a pirate, you must have appropriate reputation.
Well, eventually, I thought that you'll never gain the pirating reputation yourself, for it makes playing a bit more complicated. So I spent some 40 minutes and modified reputation of all -=?=- fighters and Huegenots manually to make them friendly to pirates and hostile to all lawful factions and corporations. Other pirate characters will share the same fate if they won't eventually become red to everyone lawful or neutral.
A surprise, eh?
Discovery is a roleplaying server. So follow roleplaying habits.