[Non-Sequitur]

Start placing RPG’s on these ships and this crap will stop fast enough.

The armed guard they had on board seemed to do fine with the weapons at hand.

[Venturer]

Yes: He frightened them off, but now they can prey on some other ship. They need to be destroyed.

[mlo]

"The armed guard they had on board seemed to do fine with the weapons at hand."

Not if the pirates survived. :-)