I wanna write a story about space pirates. something really silly and fun. Anybody got an objection to space pirates?
I'd read about space pirates any time. Space pirates are cool.
I wanna write a story about space pirates. something really silly and fun. Anybody got an objection to space pirates?
I got a pretty good idea of the crew, and a sorta-kinda basic plot. I just can't figure out how space pirates would conduct their piracy.
Instead of shooting their targets until they surrender, I was thinking more along the lines of sabotage. Find a ship on a busy spaceport, slip aboard, do some sabotage of some sort that would incapacitate without killing. Then follow the ship into space, wait for the malfunction, and then do the Good Samaritan routine.
"Oh, yes, we have just that part for you. Let me charge you three times its actual value, because you're stuck for it." They install the part, and while on the ship, steal them blind.
Less swashbuckle-y than I like, but it has the advantage of being quasi feasible.
Thoughts?
I got a pretty good idea of the crew, and a sorta-kinda basic plot. I just can't figure out how space pirates would conduct their piracy.
Instead of shooting their targets until they surrender, I was thinking more along the lines of sabotage. Find a ship on a busy spaceport, slip aboard, do some sabotage of some sort that would incapacitate without killing. Then follow the ship into space, wait for the malfunction, and then do the Good Samaritan routine.
"Oh, yes, we have just that part for you. Let me charge you three times its actual value, because you're stuck for it." They install the part, and while on the ship, steal them blind.
Less swashbuckle-y than I like, but it has the advantage of being quasi feasible.
Thoughts?
OK. I need to stop reading and posting when it's my bedtime. This is the second time I've said something stoopidz in two days. At least this time I caught it in preview.
I like your idea of their MO. It wouldn't be that hard to pull off either. All they'd really need is a corrupt mid-level manager/foreman at the docking/repair/resupply facilities on the station.
Bad software, bad fuel, bad parts, bad food, bad air. You could mess up all sorts of systems that would require assistance and a timely rescuer.
I think this is another reason I'm gonna like AW. I love talking about things like this. And when working on my own ideas, this type of conversation really, really helps me organize that amorphous mass of half formed thoughts between my ears into something manageable.
me, too! I do my best thinking in dialogue, not mere mental masturbation.
In other-internet news, I have now been friended by two people with the same first name and very similar last names on FB that, for the last 20 years, I thought was the exact same person. It's making my head hurt trying to figure out how to subdivide everything I know about that person into the correct two halves, especially since neither has posted very many photos, and even looking at what photos there are it's still almost impossible to tell them apart.
As for space pirates, I'll point out that I'm currently wearing this t-shirt:
http://www.printfection.com/retro-future/Space-Piracy-T-Shirt/_p_3938502
I got a pretty good idea of the crew, and a sorta-kinda basic plot. I just can't figure out how space pirates would conduct their piracy.
Instead of shooting their targets until they surrender, I was thinking more along the lines of sabotage. Find a ship on a busy spaceport, slip aboard, do some sabotage of some sort that would incapacitate without killing. Then follow the ship into space, wait for the malfunction, and then do the Good Samaritan routine.
"Oh, yes, we have just that part for you. Let me charge you three times its actual value, because you're stuck for it." They install the part, and while on the ship, steal them blind.
Less swashbuckle-y than I like, but it has the advantage of being quasi feasible.
Thoughts?
oooh! And they could pull the jig one too many times! Say, a captain they pulled this crap on before gets a new ship. They pull the in-dock procedure off, not knowing who the captain is. They pull their good samaritan routine, the captain lets them get on board and then BAZOW!!! Who's gonna shoot first?!?
And I will admit it publically.
I know nothing of Firefly. Never seen it.
And I will admit it publically.
I know nothing of Firefly. Never seen it.
Now that I've shocked and horrified you all - today is the last day to vote in the AW Poetry contest.
Here is the info you need.
http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=234761
And I will admit it publically.
I know nothing of Firefly. Never seen it.
Hi Hillz! What are you doing here-- No, I was just... checking up on them. I swear. Cleaning the cryo chamber. Yes. That.
Good morning! Happy Leap Day!
I lose my job today!