Pirates are heroes that can be hired by Zsinj's Empire and the Hutt Cartels in Thrawn's Revenge. There are four tiers of Pirates that can be hired, with the Fleet, Legend, and Fighter Tiers only able to be hired once, while pirates of the Corvette tier can be hired twice by a single faction.
Fleet Tier Pirates[]
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| Skandrei Bandits
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A notorious gang of pirates who terrorized the Kathol Outback, rumored to be based in the Marcol Void. The Skandrei fleet is usually dispersed, but will regroup to attack tougher targets such as planets uniting against their menace. |
| Big Jak Targrim
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The Riders of the Maelstrom are a pirate group that terrify the Maelstrom nebula nearly unopposed, save for the Rebel privateer Rodin Higron. The Riders' leader is a massive, four-armed pirate that supplements his fearsome reputation with genetic "donations" from vile crime bosses, which makes him an unpredictable set of multiple personalities, all of which are ruthless. |
| Drea Renthal
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Drea Renthal was a profit-driven pirate captain who tried to minimize casualties. She gained great notoriety when the Hutts hired her to defend Nal Hutta against an Imperial fleet making an example of Nar Shaddaa. Though she was not hired to protect the moon, she joined the coalition of criminal fleets which also included Lando Calrissian and Han Solo and was instrumental in driving off the Imperial fleet. |
| Zan Dane
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A mysterious pirate based on the Point Nadir Comet shadowport, Zan Dane was a flamboyant human with excellent command skills, a code of honor, and a vaguely Tapani accent. More than 400 members of his crew man his own Marauder cruiser, the corvette Amber Star, and several other ships. |
| Pirate Queen of the Veiled Sorority
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The Veiled Sorority is a secretive pirate group led by a Pirate Queen and an all-female advisory council. The Sorority remains almost unknown to the public and authorities due to limiting their targets to other criminal organizations which led to a costly confrontation with the Zann Consortium. |
| Abin-Ral-Xufush
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The Tiss'shar leader of the Shadow Wing Pirates, Abin-Ral-Xufush roamed the PErlemian Trade Route for all the prey he could track. He especially attacked humans, though he welcomed human pirates into his fleet. All the takings of his raids were poured back into Shadow Wing, and it grew to a powerful flotilla that could threaten entire planets and earned a 300,000 credit bounty for its leader. |
| Safonne Pendon
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Safonne Pendon ran a pirate fleet and black market operation from a base on Seltaya Major. Initially he sold plunder to the Rebel Alliance alongside criminals, but he began selling to the Empire after the New Republic was formed. Pendon's organization had a long rivalry with the Hy'thor pirates, including several battles and the defection of the Venithon Twins. |
| Chalmer Trillili
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Chalmer Trillili was a Rebel deserter who led The Scourge, a pirate group based on Dega in the Elrood Sector. His group ran afoul of the Rebel Alliance after capturing one of their scout teams, the Gray Griffins. |
| Thalassian Slavers
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The Thalassians are the oldest of the major slaving groups in the Outer Rim, alongside their bitter rivals the Zygerrians and Karazaks. They operate on a large scale, covertly supplying large mass labor for corporations and new colonies, or sourcing to unscrupulous Hutts. Undisciplined, savage, and feared, Thalassian slaveships enjoy piracy and mercenary work and will have few cares if half their targets are killed, or if their prey consists of other pirates, smugglers, and sometimes other Thalassians. Their convoys most often consist of a Kaloth Battlecruisers and Y164 transports. |
| Frei Aycen
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Frei Aycen was a Corellian who took up piracy after being frustrated with the Old Republic's corruption. She was more a thief than a killer, culminating in the theft of her flagship from a planetary defense force. |
Legend Tier Pirates[]
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| Andal Sait
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Sait was an Imperial captain who went rogue, forming connections with the Black Sun and declaring himself a Grand Admiral. He planned to sell his Star Destroyer to the Black Sun, though the deal was complicated by Rebel, Imperial, and personal interests and ended in an Imperial cover-up of the true story. | |
| Hilma Kim
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Hilma and her twin brother Sven are the heirs of Selima Kim, the matriarch of a diversified crime organization. They keep their identity secret and accompany their fleet as common pirates. |
| Slagorth
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Slagorth rose to be a key slavelord of a large Galderian slaver ring, a dangerous warrior in his own right and competent leader in a group where failure would spell his death. While attempting to set up a new base in Trebodar, he was opposed by a strange alliance of Rebel operatives and the Imperial Captain Julius Narn. | |
| Rneekii
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The Rneekii pirates operated in the Outer Rim, including a number of operations to acquire exotic starfighters to sell to the highest bidder. |
| Lon Donell
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Lieutenant Donell is the former first officer of an Interdictor cruiser who assumed command and began a campaign of ship theft. His intentions are poorly understood: though based at the Imperial shipyard at Barpine, he has developed extensive underworld contacts to fence stolen ships and may ultimately be a free agent. |
Corvette Tier Pirates[]
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| Coorsha
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A Rodian pirate who spent much of his time raiding near the Kathol sector. Originally, his fleet consisted only of fighters, but he eagerly adopted an escort carrier after capturing it. |
| Reginald Barkbone
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A legendary Poss'Nomin pirate alleged to have raided the palaces of Hapes (when he lost his leg), fought the Imperial Royal Guard (when he lost his eye), traversed the Fire Rings of Fornax (when he lost his sanity), stolen a lightsaber, and spent a month in hiding with only a vegetarian galley. Grand Admiral Tigellinus gave a long chase to Barkbone, but was unable to apprehend him. |
| Kaerobani
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A smuggling kingpin and leader of the Lumini Pirates, Kaerobani was an ardent collector of artifacts and rare objects. His obsession led him to steal a holocron from a New Republic corvette, but the Jedi artifact was quickly recovered by Mara Jade. | |
| Vulture Pirates
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A pirate group who once attacked the Rebel entrepreneur Dunari but was driven off by Bandit Squadron. Vulture pilots are organized into Pirate and Fury Squadrons |
| Drolen Antig
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A Nalroni smuggler and thief contracted to steal B-wing technology for KDY. Antig not only accomplished the task, but murdered his accomplices to claim the full reward himself. |
| Roark Slader
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A former commander in the Entrallan militia, Slader uses the Vee-Kir 4 Bulk Transport Slader Raider I to make a living as a merchant and smuggler as well as conceal and store his gunboat used for piracy. |
| Drek Drednar
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After a boring career on a merchant ship, Drednar joined Karn Granzor when the pirate boarded his freighter. Drednar learned combat and command from Granzor, but he was not alone in resenting the captain's hoarded loot and lack of style. He and several other mutineers took the chance to depart, acquire their own vessel, and defeat Granzor. Drednar went on to become a successful and colorful freebooter based on Taraloon, refusing a cybernetic eye of favor of his patch's "piratical effect". His favored tactic for finding prey was creating artificial ice asteroids in trade lanes to force ships out of hyperspace. |
| Stima Ardella
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The Trandoshan leader of the Black Hammer Pirates who terrorized Galantos with her ships and swoop bikes. Ardella ended up in possession of the Freebird, an Imperial lander with a gruesome part in the Blackwing Virus incident. |
| Miktiss
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Miktiss was a Saurton warrior forced off his homeworld for illegal partisan actions. Miktiss fled to the Kathol sector, where he stole a small fleet and founded the Des'maric Pirates. He partnered with crime lord Crev Bombaasa, though Bombaasa plotted to supplant Miktiss with his trusted Saurton lieutenant Ginzet. |
| Jor Entel
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Jor Entel, alias O'Roark, was a ruthless pirate captain. Shortly before the Demophon supernova, Entel masqueraded as a humanitarian ship, offering evacuation of Demophon residents and their valuables on his freighter for a small fee. He then murdered his unsuspecting passengers, among whom was the Rebel Alliance agent Enid Vahr. |
| Gunda Mabin
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"Gunda the Terrible" was a Quara Aqualish pirate who got her start with the Riders of the Maelstrom before making a name for herself as a brutal pirate slaver. Her usual approach to patrol ships is a headlong charge with her whole fleet, a tactic which has served her well so far. |
| Tarnta Bane
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Tarnta Bane created the Consolidations Unlimited group to run a variety of criminal operations, from slaving to piracy to smuggling. Unusually for a slaver, he has a perpetually cheery disposition, always cracking jokes, caring for his men, and cheerfully wishing his victims "better luck next time". He will also kill anyone who crosses him with the same glee, as many who have underestimated his charming personality have found. |
| Loose Cannon Pirates
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The Loose Cannon Pirates are a small outfit based in the Tamarin sector. Rather than simply waiting in ambush along likely routes, the Loose Cannons will lure likely marks to remote areas with promises of shady business opportunities. |
Fighter Tier Pirates[]
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| Kath Scarlet
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Kath Scarlet led the Binayre Pirates in the Corellian sector. She mostly preyed on unarmed vessels passing through asteroids but once boarded an Imperial shuttle and abandoned some of her boarding party in the escape. | |
| Ssurussk
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A Trandoshan pirate who operated in the Expansion Region. The pilots of Ssurussk's Nebula Raiders were a constant thorn to shipping lanes in the latter days of the Old Republic. | |
| Stormtrooper X
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A mysterious pirate, mercenary, and smuggler operating a small gang in the Outer Rim who has worked for a variety of unsavory organizations. Narbuj Desilijic Preor was his primary sponsor until the Hutt blamed a raid on a spice warehouse on the dangerous outlaw. The Empire has issued a warrant on Stormtrooper X but not offered a reward or granted requests for more data. |
