They have Cornish accents, beards, say "Arr!" a lot, have parrots (probably robot) and false limbs (probably cybernetic) and wear tricorn hats and eyepatches (or have cybernetic eyes). Reasons for including this version will typically be along the lines of "Because Space Is an Ocean, it has to have Pirates" rather than making any meaningful attempt at justifying their existence. The other version does a Recycled in Space on every eighteenth century pirate cliche ever.That could be anything from the technology of the setting creating trade lanes (via a Portal Network, predictable Faster-Than-Light Travel routes thanks to Negative Space Wedgies, or timed space flights between planets to reduce time spent between planets, as in Real Life), to using a variant of the method employed by modern pirates (say, smaller ships striking at commercial shipping in the orbit of a planet). Done this way, piracy actually makes sense, provided there's an enabling factor. Once you have shipping between different solar systems/planets, pirates preying on said shipping are bound to show.
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