Pirates

The Pirates are a criminal and paramilitary organization in Far Cry 3, The Far Cry Experience, and Far Cry VR located on the Rook Islands' northern island. They are led by the insane and psychotic Vaas Montenegro. Fueled by the lust for money, they came to the Rook Islands to rape, pillage, steal, and murder.
They are the first enemy faction that Jason Brody encounters and can usually be found patrolling the island or at outposts, easily distinguishable by their bright red clothing, unlike the Rakyat, Privateers and common villagers.
The Pirates hold a grudge against the Rakyat, and these factions will attack each other on sight. They have an unsteady alliance with Hoyt Volker's Privateers, but this alliance is broken when Jason kills Vaas. The Pirates have lower quality weapons and equipment than the Privateers. Despite being pirates, they cannot swim and will die from drowning if they fall into water, just like the Rakyat and Privateers.
Pirates are not exceptionally skilled fighters; they are prone to firing randomly into the bushes or throwing grenades at random in hopes of flushing Jason into the open. Some Pirates are less perceptive and may take longer to detect dangers up close, such as explosives or enemies approaching from behind. After the events of Far Cry 3, they are eliminated by the Rakyat due to their very poor training and tactics. Most likely any remaining pirates return to their countries of origin.
== Origin ==
The Pirates as a faction can be traced to small, unorganised bands of opportunistic thugs that took advantage of the Rook Islands' lack of government and law enforcement to pillage, murder, and commit crimes against the populace in order to make money. Thriving off the black market's products to become well-armed and well-equipped, they committed crimes on a small scale, but didn't expand beyond small gangs.
However, under the leadership of Vaas, they grew exponentially more powerful, setting up organised infrastructure and strongpoints throughout the islands, and in return of being supplied with weapons and ammo, they grew drugs and captured people to sell into slavery for their patron, Hoyt Volker, who Vaas reports to.
== Business Model ==
The Pirates are considerably more dangerous than the average criminals, with access to a wide armoury of weapons and armour. However, they also have access to infrastructure.
In their day-to-day operations:
* Extort the local population and execute those who resist to reduce support for the local Rakyat.
* Suppress the Rakyat Resistance wherever possible through land and sea patrols.
* Repair or salvage local vehicles or wrecks in order to keep their Scavengers, Technicals, and RHIBs functional.
* Maintain communications and security to keep the Rakyat in check by guarding the Medusa, Radio Towers, Vaas' fortress, and Outposts across the island.
* Grow and smuggle drugs such as Marijuana and PCP taken from recipes on memory cards provided by drug cartels in order to satisfy their patron.
* Take 'tourists' or unlucky locals captive in order to either ransom them (the former) or just immediately sell them into slavery via Hoyt's network (the latter).
== Weapons and Tactics ==
The Pirates have access to a wide variety of weapons found on Rook Island, most of them bought legally/illegally, stolen, or traded from arms merchants. They also have access to a wide variety of vehicles.
* They use a wide variety of weapons, ranging from simple machetes used by Beheaders, to heavy LMGs such as the PKM, wielded by the Pirate Heavy Gunner.
* Lower ranking members often wear no or little protective equipment, such as tank tops, cargo trousers, and WW2-era Sling Vests.
* Higher ranking members often wear black body armour, often patched up with duct tape, and sometimes even helmets made from welding masks.
*Mid-level leaders ae often seen wearing green berets and minor body armour.
* Leaders can immediately be distinguished from other Pirates by their yellow symbol, red berets, and use of heavy armour.
* They generally seem to prefer Scavengers, Technicals, and RHIBs for patrols and business around the island, marked with their symbol, fitting with their nature as loosely organised marauders.
* However, they do possess some helicopters, patrol boats, and other heavy vehicles such as trucks for their industries.
However, Pirates generally have a poor grasp of military tactics compared to the Privateers, but their knowledge outranks the Rakyat in that regard.
* They generally have poor detection strategies, often pouring automatic fire and grenades into suspected opponents in attempts to force them into the open, even if their opponents are gone.
* This can also be seen by their sparse guarding of outposts and the Medusa communications dish even after Jason begins to wage war on the Pirates.
* They also have poor discipline, inconsistently making guard patrols in outposts, and instead spend time relaxing, drinking, or complaining.
* However, they do have a most disciplined patrol schedule, as patrols can be found fairly frequently, most likely in a vehicle, but sometimes on foot.
* They also respond if they hear gunfire, explosions, or a wild animal attack, and will rush to assist.
==Notable Members==
* Vaas Montenegro (Leader)
* Doug (Spotter)
* Felipe
==Types==
There are multiple types of Pirates, each have different skills and weaknesses:
* Pirate Assaulter (Elite)(Boss)
* Pirate Beheader
* Pirate Berserker (Boss)
* Pirate Defender (Elite 2 and 3)(Boss)
* Pirate Heavy Flamer (CO-OP only)
* Pirate Heavy Gunner
* Pirate Molotov Thrower
* Pirate RPG Shooter (Boss)
* Pirate Sniper (Boss)
== Quick Review Table==
== Mission appearances==
*Make a Break for It
*Secure the Outpost
*The Medusa's Call
*Playing the Spoiler
*Prison Break-in
*Island Port Hotel
*Kick the Hornet's Nest
*A Man Named Hoyt
*Saving Oliver
*Piece of the Past
*Down in the Docks
*The Motherlode
*Lin Cong I Presume
*Ambush (Vaas Montenegro)
*Warrior Rescue Service
*Payback
*Fly South
*Three Blind Mice
*Defusing the Situation
*Every Outpost on the North Island
*Every Wanted Dead mission on the North Island
*Every Trial of the Rakyat
==Trivia==
*They seem to be from numerous parts of the Pacific, Africa and even the Americas. Specifically Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, and The Philippines.
*Their insignia looks like a white eye with a dot for pupil and three small spikes for eyelashes, it can be seen on the flag in hostile outposts and their Scavengers.
*Wearing the Privateer outfit in plain view of the pirates will have no effect on them. The outfit is specifically meant for the Privateers only, so the Pirates will still classify you as an enemy.
*Occasionally, as a random event, the Pirates can be seen getting into a face-to-face confrontation with Hoyt's Privateers on the South Island airport. However, if the Pirates detect Jason, both Privateer and Pirate soldiers will attack him, regardless of what Jason is wearing.
*Pirates can be found outside of Vaas's personal compound after Payback, but Rakyat warriors will spawn inside the compound.
*Pirates do not seem to have a main spawn point, thus meaning they cannot be easily located, unless the player partakes in a WANTED: Dead mission. Until the player captures all of the outposts on the North Island, Pirates can, however, be found fairly frequently patrolling the roads and waterways. Some Pirates can also be found at the docks where the player rescues Oliver Carswell from the "Saving Oliver" mission.
*Some pirates can be seen cleaning their weapons, drinking, and doing other things (such as urinating excessively).
*If one listens to their dialogue, pirates will humorously tell of their sexually transmitted diseases caught from local prostitutes.
* They will also complain about the heat and how sick they are of Rook Island, saying inter alia that the island and everyone on it "can burn in Hell" and that the Rebels can have the Island. They will occasionally say "somebody just fucking shoot me!", which is ironic since the player listening to the dialogue is likely to kill them.
*Pirates are only occasionally seen sailing boats. "Pirate" is likely just a generic term used on the island for any member of Vaas's gang.
*Pirates like strippers. Strippers are seen in the mission Payback, and some pirates say: "Whoever this is, it better be a stripper." when distracted with a rock thrown by the player.
*In a random encounter, the player will find a seemingly dead pirate spread-eagled on the ground, but upon closer inspection, he will get up and try to kill you. It is likely that this is a glitch.
*Pirates also seem to enjoy hot sauce. When there are some pirates sitting around a spit roast, one will often say, "Everything here tastes like crap without hot sauce.", or, "Who the fuck used all the hot sauce?"
*Their dialogue is referenced to during an Armed Escort mission in Far Cry 4, where, upon completion (delivering medicine), the Truck driver will say "Thank God. Now the soldiers will stop complaining about how it burns when they piss". The burning piss line, “It burns like a mother when I piss, should’ve used a rubber (condom)!”, is commonly heard among patrolling pirates.
*They will sometimes meet up with the Privateers, a random place on the South Island, sometimes they will try to provoke the Privateers and make them shoot them, by saying things like "I'm not scared of you, Soldierboy." and "C'mon give it to me, Soldierboy," to which a Privateer may answer "Take it easy, we’re on the same side." This shows that they are not fearful of the Privateers. This can be watched here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm7FjuvbW7s)
* They have similar behaviour to the Royal Army in Far Cry 4.
*Sometimes, Pirate (except for Heavy Gunners) can be heard shouting "You are in for a world of pain!". This could be an Easter egg reference to the movie character Walter Sobchak's quote "You are entering a world of pain!" from the movie The Big Lebowski.
*Pirate Assaulters and one Defender appears in Far Cry 6: Insanity DLC. Mostly are corpses of Assaulters, while a Defender or Defender Boss is seen in a vision along with Assaulters and Vaas.
==Quotes==
Pirates/Quotes
==Gallery ==
FC3 cutout pirates.png|Pirate image model
Pirates.png|In Survival Guide
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Screenshot 2021-10-15 205545.png|Vaas overlooks pirates which he receives drugs from, essentially starting his descent into madness and becoming the psychopath that we all see in Far Cry 3. 
Screenshot 2021-10-15 210651.png|Vaas and his pirates murdered and harassed many of the rook island residents.
Screenshot 2021-10-15 210904.png|Vaas and his men put hostages into a cargo truck to most likely sell to contribute to Hoyt's human trafficking business.
Screenshot 2021-10-15 212917.png|Vaas and one of his men watch as Jason and his friends parachute over Rook Island which Vaas sees as an opportunity to capture them and sell them ultimately setting the events of Far Cry 3 into place.
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File:Far Cry 3 Pirates.jpg|Pirates with a hostage
Units
Assaulter 1.JPG|Pirate Assaulter
FC3 Pirate Assaulter Elite.png|Pirate Assaulter Elite
FC3 Pirate Assaulter Boss.png|Pirate Assaulter Boss
File:PirateCharger1.jpg|Pirate Beheader
Berserker 1.PNG|Pirate Berserker 
Pirate Berserker Boss-0.jpg|Pirate Berserker Boss
Defender 1.PNG|Pirate Defender
FC3 Pirate Defender Boss.png|Pirate Defender Boss
FC3 Pirate Defender VIP 2.png|Pirate Defender VIP 2
FC3 Pirate Defender VIP 3.png|Pirate Defender VIP 3
Heavy Gunner.PNG|Pirate Heavy Gunner
Molotov Thrower 1.PNG|Pirate Molotov Thrower
RPG Shooter 1.PNG|Pirate RPG Shooter
FC3 Pirate RPG Shooter Boss.png|Pirate RPG Shooter Boss
Sniper 1.PNG|Pirate Sniper
FC3 Pirate Sniper Boss.png|Pirate Sniper Boss
FC3 Pirate Sniper Elite.png|Pirate Sniper Elite/VIP 2
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