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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jd Smith1" data-source="post: 8745858" data-attributes="member: 6998052">I don't think the historical precedents are valid. The ability of ship-to-shore weaponry was minimal back then, and the need for armaments quickly faded once governmental controls eliminated safe ports for pirates. The Golden Age of piracy in the Caribbean, for example, was actually quite short. Examples like the Somali pirates do not carry over, IMO, because space lacks the choke points that the Somali pirates exploit. I could see a ship have arms lockers and dead stick options to render piracy unattractive. But the cost of mounting weapons and targeting systems, ECM/EW suites, and training/maintaining crews to military levels would seem to swiftly kill the profit margin of cargo ships.</blockquote>