Pirate

Pirates are rogue ships that will try stealing your spice from your colonies. Their appearances are random unless you interveve, will steall some spice. Pirates have to ability to summon around five minu u ships fpr each big ship. These ships had around 30 health with the big ships having around 250 health. Their color on the map is white, and shooting them down will sometimes result in money dropping to the surface.

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Pirates are unnafiliated with any empires, and are rare at the beginning of the stage. Empires that expand through conquest will encounter more pirates after conquests. The theory is that if you select the "I claim This place" option, the fleeing enemy ships will be shown as pirates on the last conquered system of an enemy empire if you choose to let them escape.