[Matt Wiser]

One thing about playing a privateer: make sure you've got your backside covered JIC the folks sponsoring you decide you're a liability and need to be eliminated. Happened to us once in Traveller (planetary government hired us and after fulfilling our letter of marque, they decided we were more useful to them as shot-up wrecks and corpses floating home. Got out of the ambush with two of three ships, and most of the crew still breathing, but the ones who weren't so fortunate were either killed in battle or were...disposed of later). We simply went to a neighboring system, who had disagreements with our previous employers, and they hired us then and there to go out and enrich ourselves at the previous system's expense. Did a good enough job that the planetary government fell via a coup d'etat and a more...agreeable regime installed that suited all parties admriably, except for those who were overthrown and executed....