Piracy

Piracy increases the chances of some AI dropping the items on-board their ship when they are killed, each level of piracy also increases drop rate of Augmenters by 0.05% per level.

Piracy is useful when you are attacking low and medium level AI that do not have a Self-destructor equipped. Higher level AI have an equipped self-destructor which destroys all gear on-board when the ship is killed. These AI do not drop any of their gear regardless of your skill in Piracy -(Or rather, they have a tiny chance of dropping some items, not affected by your piracy skill). Piracy also does not affect the drop rate of rare universal drops of gear not found on the ship itself (such as a Gigo Laser) or rare drops specific to a certain type of AI.

Piracy is also a requirement for various pirate-themed gear. The skill costs a constant 4 Skill points per level.

Where to get Piracy

Location	Base Name	Accessibility	Level	Requirements	Notes
Ring	Rock Harbor		1
Handel's Cove	Lost Cove		2		Requires Piracy 1 in Ring first.
Blue Outpost	Blue Outpost		4	2 Blue Whisper	Space Blue Alpha Scout drop and mined in Blue Outpost
Tortuga	Tortuga Outpost		5	1 Scorched Trader Signet
Absolution	Absolute Power		7	1 Basil Bouquet	Basil drop
Tortuga	Treasure Cave		8	1 Gold Dubloon
Infernal Tempest	Alpha Research Station		12	3 Infernal Cell	Infernal Tempest Mission reward
Bipolar	White Haven		14	1 Rosemary Sprig	Rosemary drop
Bonnet	Bonnet Hideout		16	1 Traginium	Mined in Bonnet
Handel's Cove	Maboule's Hideout		19	1 Trader Emblem	Slumberchrome drop
Serpica	Scale Center		20	1 Nathaniel's Emblem	Nathaniel Courthope and Captain Albatross drop
Strontium-90	Dead Man's Redoubt	P2P Only	21	10 Gold Fistful of Dollas	Strontium-90 Mission reward
Strontium-90	The Doghouse	P2P Only	22	5 Platinum Fistful of Dollas	Strontium-90 Mission reward