All Things Vargr

[Grav_Moped]

It's apirational.

Heck yeah, we're pirates! Ok, we're hauling 81Td of cargo at Cr1k/jump and have been for years, but just you wait -- someday we'll find that one big prize ship and then we'll be rich and famous and feared!

Until then, though, this Type A Free Trader is too a pirate ship!
..

 

[Condottiere]

It could explain why Corridor was overrun, if ten percent of the nearby Vargr, and a billion corsair starships decided the pickings were easy.

 

[kilemall]

How about amping it up- Vargr corsairs are actually what a privateering navy looks like, authorized by x planets to attack y targets/enemies while getting starport facilities to base and maintain and sell booty.

Or completely fun/wild- subsidized corsairs. The pack or world mega pack funds the ship in exchange for a cut of the proceeds on a regular hunting ground.

 

[Condottiere]

Yeah, I was thinking about that.

If you take the narrative at face value, corsairs basically dominate Vargr society and civilization, possibly to a greater degree than Vikings.

 

[Condottiere]

Vargr: Military Organization

A. Vargr military, as opposed to paratized, tends to divide into regular and irregular units.

B. Regular units operate under regulations, discipline, and imposed authority.

C. Irregular ones are usually banded together, semi voluntarily submit to regulations, disciple, and authority.

D. Until they don't.

E. Most, if not all, Vargr polities can't afford to maintain standing armies.

F. Or, sitting aerospace forces.

 

[Condottiere]

Vargr: Military Organization

G. And if they can barely afford a regular army, they certainly won't be able to pay for a space navy.

H. Basically, I think we're looking at the Renaissance, in terms of the Vargr military.

I. Any cohesive Vargr polity is likely to rely on levies and militias for ground forces.

J. Gambling on the draft, half the slots are for the army.

K. The remaining ones are law enforcement, marines, and the navy.

 

[Condottiere]

Vargr: Military Organization

L. And, of course, there be mercenaries.

M. Except, that Vargr inclined to be mercenary, join corsair packs.

N. I tend to believe, the vast majority of corsair packs don't have a corsair starship.

O. They will sell their services to anyone willing to meet their price.

P. Or, if desperate, board and lodging.

 

[Condottiere]

Vargr: Military Organization

Q. Corsairs aren't space pirates.

R. Corsairs are mercenaries who wish they were space pirates.

S. Why are there so many corsairs?

T. It's because Vargr just want to get off their planet, and make easy money.

U. Which begs the question, why Vargr are socio economically, possibly politically, dissatisfied?