Freebooters

Freebooters are spacers who make their living through a variety of illegitimate activities, most notably through preying on the legitimate trade activity of various systems. 
They are primarily a Sol System phenomenon, although Freebooter practices and influence spread throughout Local Space during the Age of Exploration and Great Expansion.
== History ==
Freebooting as a practice was isolated to the Rim during the First Trilogy Era. Freebooting was illegal everywhere in the Sol System. In the Consortium, freebooting was considered a capital crime and therefore punished by exile to the Rim. This was ultimately counterproductive as spacers learned they could earn free passage to the Rim by freebooting. 
Once in the Rim, this was considered an honor rather than a demerit by some, and these freebooters found themselves working for whoever was the most influential and powerful at the time. 
During the Solar War, the Protectorate issued letters of marque to individual freebooters and drew alliances with freebooter gangs to supplement their forces as militia, thereby allowing for the migration and operation of Rimmers to the Main Belt to participate in the war. 
Every Freebooter in Sol System knows The Tale of The Black Dragon. 
== Famous Freebooters ==
* Mušen de Lagge (Twilight)
* Nic Cruze (STE)
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