Privateers

The Privateers are a private military company based on the Rook Islands led by Hoyt Volker. Compared to Vaas' Pirates, they are much better equipped and organized, wearing tactical gear and using state of the art weaponry. Most of the Privateers have military training, and fight professionally, unlike the Pirates. They were hired by Hoyt to protect him and his business. They can be distinguished by their yellow clothing and armour. Just like Rakyat and Pirates, Privateers cannot swim and will die from drowning if fall into water. After the events of Far Cry 3, despite their superior training and better equipment, they were eliminated by the Rakyat. It is assumed that the remaining privateers were captured by either Indonesia or a new, stable Rook Islander government.
==Background==
The Privateers were a private military company formed by Hoyt Volker in his quest to conquer the Rook Islands for his own personal profit. After conquering the Pirate consortium of which he was now leader, he began recruiting from disgraced military, current military, paramilitary, and criminal forces in order to build a powerful army of trained soldiers. At least a few of the Privateers are former French legionaires who bought a dozen crates of F1 Assault rifles from when they defected to join Hoyt. 
They spread across the Southern Island at some point before 2012 (Likely to be from 1990-2009), and removed all Rakyat opposition in the process, driving the Rakyat off the South Island almost entirely. They set up large compounds of high-security across the island, often more heavily fortified than any pirate outpost, and set up advanced infrastructure such as satellite dishes, training camps, runways, and an armaments storage facility to entrench their occupation.
Other sources from Hoyt's vast contacts supplied advanced weaponry like American P416 assault rifles and Serbian Z93 sniper rifles through back channels, without clearing the vast background checks required to buy large quantities of weaponry. The Privateers also stole or brought in a number of other weapons from sources like Black Market Arms Dealers and Military Surplus giveaways such as Russian PKMs, Flamethrowers, and RPGs for anti-personnel and anti-armour purposes.
The Privateers settled in as rulers of the South Island after solidifying the alliance with Vaas' Pirates, who kept the Rakyat forces on the north island busy with small turf wars, allowing the Privateers to settle in as kings.
== History ==
=== Events of Far Cry 3 ===
=== Events of the North Island ===
The Privateers did play a small role on the North Island. Two Privateer Assaulters protected Hoyt when he went to Beras Town to make an example of the locals for supporting the Rakyat Resistance. However, they left the village before Jason Brody attacked the Pirate force seeking the transportation manifest.
Likewise, the Privateers guarded the APC that was supposedly transporting the captured Rakyat Warriors for Hoyt's human trafficking operation. However, they were all killed by the Rakyat and Jason Brody, who was then taken prisoner after being surprised by Vaas.
=== Privateer Greed and the arrival of Jason Brody ===
When Jason Brody infiltrated the Privateers in order to kill Hoyt, he got an offer from a traitorous Privateer who planned to make more money by taking over Vaas' drug operation after the collapse of the Pirates and raking in the personal profits from said drug operation. Jason accepted, but instead used the Privateers' greed against them by attacking their operation and using them in order to work his way into Hoyt's confidence.
== Goals ==
The Privateers are the main security forces of Hoyt Volker's operation and as such are assigned more complex duties than the Pirates. They have been marked as below:
* Prevent the Rakyat and local population from rebelling in any way by using comprehensive foot, vehicle, and water patrols, as well as conducting public executions in order to erode support for the local resistance.
* Protect the outposts and the compound in order to prevent the loss of territory to the Rakyat.
* Protect Hoyt's drug fields of marijuana and cocaine on the Southern Island from intruders and working the fields in order to keep making harvests.
* Provide security for Hoyt's human trafficking deals in order to prevent hostages from escaping.
* Provide security for Hoyt's arms deals and prevent third parties from stealing any of the product.
* Maintain the infrastructure of the Privateers such as the satellite communication complex and fuel stockpile in order to keep the Privateer vehicles going.
* Keep the helicopters and air transports of the Privateers operational in order to increase the tactical advantage of Privateer strike teams over Rakyat rebels.
== Equipment ==
The Privateers are much better armed and trained than the Pirates, with them often winning fights against the Rakyat. The following has been observed about the Privateers.
* They have access to a wide variety of military equipment, such as American P416s, Russian RPGs and PKMs, as well as Croatian A2000s and Serbian Z93s.
* They also have access to a variety of military-grade secondary equipment, such as ballistic vests, holsters, knee pads, helmets, as well as EOD and Fire-Retardant suits.
* The Privateers also have military training, aiming and firing their weapons much more accurately than Pirates and generally trying to keep a safe distance from hostiles.
* They also have access to a large variety of vehicles, from simple machine-gun mounted technicals and boats, to heavy APCs and Choppers.
Firearms List:
* P416
* BZ19
* A2000
* PKM
* Z93
* Flamethrower
* RPG-7
*Frag Grenades
Equipment List:
* Ballistic Vests
* Holsters
* Kneepads
* Riot Gear
* Helmets
* EOD protective equipment
* Firefighter protective Equipment
Vehicles List:
* Technical
* Scavenger (No gun)
* Scavenger (MKG)
* RHIB (DShK)
* APC (Warrior Rescue Service)
* Chopper (MKG)
* Cargo Plane
==Notable members==
* Hoyt Volker (leader, deceased)
* Sam Becker (high-level member/spy for Willis Huntley and the C.I.A., deceased)
* Foster (deceased)
* Karl (Member)
* Steeve (Member)
* Vaas Montenegro (associate/allied subordinate, deceased)
* Bambi "Buck" Hughes (associate/personal hitman for Hoyt Volker, deceased)
The Privateers are more dangerous and better equipped than the Pirates. They are a tough faction that will not go down easily without a fight. There are a few less Privateer variants compared to Pirates.
* Privateer Assaulter (Boss) (Elite 1 and 2)
* Privateer Charger
* Privateer Defender (Elite)
* Privateer Heavy Flamer (Elite)
* Privateer Heavy Gunner
* Privateer Recruit
* Privateer RPG Shooter
* Privateer Sniper (Boss)
== Quick Review Table ==
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==The Rules==
Upon arrival on the Rook Islands, Hoyt provides recruits with a set of rules. They are as follows:
#Protect Hoyt's product.
#Kill any native on sight.
#All profits go to Hoyt.
As punishment for breaking the rules, the offender will be placed in a small metal cage, drenched in petroleum and burnt alive. This is witnessed when Jason infiltrates the docks to pose as one of Hoyt's men and gain his trust.
== Gameplay ==
The Privateers take the Pirates' place as enemies once the player reaches the Southern Island, being tougher to take down than the latter, but once Jason acquires the Privateer recruit uniform, they will only attack if provoked. It is important to note that even when wearing the uniform, Jason is not allowed to enter high-security command centres or outposts. Also, Jason will not be allowed to attack civilians while wearing the Privateer suit; doing so will cause nearby Rakyat to attack him. The Privateer uniform also has no effect on Vaas' pirates and they will still attack him on sight, indeed, it has been shown in the mission "Defusing the Situation" that the pirates attack the privateers' drug fields which may be related to Jason in privateer uniform having no affect on Vaas' Pirates. Despite that, the Pirates, will try to make Privateers angry at them, which shows the Pirates have no fear or respect for the Privateers.
==Mission appearances==
*A Man Named Hoyt
*Ambush
*Doppelganger
*Three Blind Mice
*Triple Decker
*Defusing the Situation (Sam Becker)
*Deepthroat
*All in
*Paint It Black
*Black Gold
*Aced in the Hole
*Betting Against the House
*Every Outpost and Wanted Dead mission on the Southern Island.
==Trivia==
* At first, the Privateers seem to have an uneasy alliance with Vaas's Pirates. The alliance is broken with the death of Vaas Montenegro at the hands of Jason.
*There is a conversation encountered occasionally between Privateers where one tells the other not to open fire on targets but the other states they're at the island to kill people then the other responds with calling him a psycho which shows some do not want to be violent as much towards natives.
*As stated in the handbook, some Privateers come from a military background while some without prior experiences are also recruited.
*The Privateers earn a minimum pay check of $30,000.
*Although the in game manual suggests that Privateers have beheaders (with a picture in the manual) none are encountered in-game.
*Liberating all the outposts on the South Island will stop every naval and land patrol of the Privateers, however the Compound, the bridge (list of traitors mission), the cavern (obtaining privateer disguise mission), and the Airstrip will still serve as their spawn points even after the single player campaign is beaten.
*Privateers tend to win in gunfights with the Rakyat due to their superior armor and equipment.
*Privateers will never fire on Pirates, even after their alliance is broken.
*In their dialogue, Privateers may occasionally make a Jurassic Park reference. For example:("Good thing we didn't live in an island with dinosaur on it.")
*They can be compared to The Royal Guard from Kyrat in Far Cry 4, by enemy types, better weaponry, armor and tactics. However, the body armor used by Privateers is weaker then the Royal Guard who have access to advanced armor.
**In addition, Privateers has the same enemy type amount as Royal Guard. instead of the Recruit, Royal Guard has Hunters.
* Just like their Pirate dialogue counterparts, some Privateers want to leave Rook Island. Some of them will mutter that another Privateer is making more money than them and consider asking for a raise or promotion.
*Even after Hoyt's death and the destruction of most of their organization, Privateers will still be seen and they will still use the Compound, the bridge (list of traitors mission), the cavern (privateer disguise mission), and the Airship as their spawning points even when the campaign is over.
*Sometimes when mauled by a bear or a tiger, they use the same screaming audio that the pirates use.
* It is unknown what became of the rest of the Privateers, who were exposed as traitors who intend to steal from Hoyt, by Brody. Given Hoyt's retaliative nature, it is more than likely that he had them all brutally killed (likely burned alive in cages) as punishment.
*Oddly the Elite and Boss variants of the Privateer variants don't move their faces when they talk or even stabbed.
**Their yellow berets may implies that they used to serve in Zimbabwe Presidential Guard or Portuguese special operation groups in Africa, or they may simply using it to match the bright yellow color on their uniforms.
*After you have gotten the Privateer outfit, the Privateers in the Compound can be heard saying "This island is as good as mine, and no one is gonna stop me". They could be referring to Vaas' Island offered by Hoyt Volker for Jason Brody's head.
*The Privateers are shown to be more aggressive than their Pirate counterparts. They bully locals, shoot unauthorized personnel, harassing recruits, and even raping locals.
*Other than raping the locals, some Privateers are implied to molest recruits. As by a guard saying "Hoyt's hiring pretty boys now, better pucker that asshole." to Jason when in Hoyt's Compound.
==Quotes==
Privateers/Quotes
==Images==
FC3 cutout privateers.png|Privateer image model
Privateer.png|In Survival Guide
Far-cry-3-top-food-chain.jpg|Privateer outpost
Beheaders from User Manual.png|the cut privateer unit
Privateer Beheader.png|in the editor
File:Ak-privateer.jpg|Privateer Assaulter with AK-47
FC3 Privateer Assaulter.png|Privateer Assaulter
FC3 Privateer Assaulter Boss.png|Privateer Assaulter Boss
FC3 Privateer Assaulter Elites.png|Privateer Assaulter Elites
Charger 1.1.PNG|Privateer Charger
FC3 Privateer Recruit.png|Privateer Recruit
FC3 Privateer Defender.png|Privateer Defender
Privateer Defender Elite.jpg|Privateer Defender Elite
FC3 Privateer RPG Shooter.png|Privateer RPG Shooter
FC3 Privateer Sniper.png|Privateer Sniper
Privateer Sniper Boss.png|Privateer Sniper Boss
Heavy Gunner-0.PNG|Privateer Heavy Gunner
Heavy Flamer.PNG|Privateer Heavy Flamer
Elite1.png|Privateer Heavy Flamer Elite
 
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