Pirate
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Pirate
Note: not to be confused with rat, which indicates an NPC pirate. A pirate is always a Player character.
A pirate is a player character who has chosen to disregard the rules of engagement laid out by CONCORD and attacks innocent players for profit. This can be done in Empire or in low sec, or even in 0.0. This is most commonly done in low security systems as they will not automatically lose their ship for attacking a player without aggression. With every attack of this type, they lose some security status until they reach -10.