It saddens me to make this announcement, but I'm afraid the truth of it is well known anyway. The Buccaneers are dead. To cling to official status now would be a waste, so as of right now, we relinquish it voluntarily.
Regardless of any effort on my part, or that of Captain Anderson, after I stepped down, we just couldn't get anyone in game. I put a lot of myself into the faction, as did quite a few other people. We had high hopes for the Buccaneers, and it seemed like we were going to get everything we hoped for.
But then the wheels came off. Fewer and fewer people logged in. Calls to action in the Buccaneer Skype chat started to be ignored. After a while, the chat barely involved Freelancer at all. When I saw where it was all going, and couldn't think of any way to solve it, I stepped aside hoping that new leadership would help. Sadly, it didn't. Activity dwindled to literally nothing.
I'm not sure where we went wrong, or if there's a future for the Buccaneers at all, but we can all remember the good times we had. Anyone who feels like sharing their experiences with the Buccaneers, please, feel free to post it here. At least we can go out on something of a positive note.
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There's some language, but I felt this last chat really mentioned a lot of the brilliant stuff we did. I miss having a Buccaneer. But we will be back in the distant future.
[20:45:08] DawnRider: We were the most piratey pirates
[20:45:09] Captain Anderson cries softly
[20:45:23] Captain Anderson: Jamie, Myself, and one more all pirated a OC Dreadnought.
[20:45:30] Captain Anderson: One of the best moments of our lives.
[20:45:34] Jamie: Repeatedly.
[20:45:40] DawnRider: Wow
[20:45:46] Jamie: We also pirated a Colonial carrier.
[20:45:54] Captain Anderson: Three of us, pirating a Terrorist.
[20:46:03] Jamie: Oh, and a Luxury Liner under the guns of a Bretonian BAF destroyer group.
[20:46:07] Jamie tears up
[20:46:12] Jamie: We killed the b*stard too.
[20:46:13] Captain Anderson: very true.
[20:46:31] Captain Anderson: There was a time where I was soloing three Bargs and stoat came.
[20:46:40] Jamie: Yeah.
[20:46:53] Jamie: We were possibly the most batsh*t insane pirates in Sirius.
[20:46:56] Captain Anderson: BAF was sitting nearby, and I still managed to make them run.
[20:47:05] Captain Anderson: Them being the Bargs.
[20:47:24] Captain Anderson: Hell...
[20:47:36] Captain Anderson: We even smuggled Food rations from Malta to Crete.
[20:47:42] DawnRider: Everyone had reasons, or grudges, dammit. We did it for the money and the rum.
[20:47:58] Jamie: Yeah. Then Zelot got pissy, and I insulted him until he went home.
[20:48:06] Captain Anderson: Hehe.
[20:48:13] Jamie: That was brilliant, heheh
[20:48:14] Captain Anderson: His men never did catch or kill me.
[20:48:26] Captain Anderson: infact, my Percheron killed one of his 'sairs that was chasing me.
[20:48:42] Jamie: Nope. They even launched an assualt on Bretonia to get us later, and were intercepted by a BAF battlefleet.
[20:48:45] Jamie: We weren't good.
[20:48:49] Jamie: We were -damn- good.
[20:48:55] Captain Anderson: F*ck damn good.
[20:49:00] Captain Anderson: We were f*cking brilliant.
[20:49:18] Captain Anderson: There was also the time when we pirated Ivan's OPG transport.
[20:49:28] Jamie: I think I did that the most times.
[20:49:30] Captain Anderson: and BAF was in cambridge just as the OPG came to gank us. XD
[20:49:34] Jamie: He got to know me by name xD
[20:49:51] DawnRider: Heh
[20:49:56] Captain Anderson: Being chased by all those Bounty Hunters.
[20:50:06] Jamie: Yeah. And the lunacy that was Stoat.
[20:50:14] Jamie: Oooh, and the BPA woman. That was classy xD
[20:50:19] Captain Anderson: Hell the most amusing time was when I lured two BAFies to the Tau-31 gate.
[20:50:29] Captain Anderson: Jumped through, and one of them almost got killed by the Kusari BS.
[20:50:42] Captain Anderson: We were pirates.
[20:50:43] Captain Anderson: We were insane.
[20:50:48] Captain Anderson: And it was f*cking fun.
[20:51:01] Jamie: And we'll be back at some point in the future.
[20:51:14] Jamie: I mean, faction or not, I'm remaking a Buccaneer come .86
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Yeah, that was a real highlight, and has been forever engraved onto the collective memories of every Buccaneer present that day.
You took it like a champ too. I'd have been pissed off by such a bomber swarm descending on me. Retrospective Kudos to you Seth, as well as the ones we gave you at the time.
You lads really knew how to pirate, I'll give you that, and it's a pity to see the faction go. I still remember my promise to one of the Bucanneers involving bulls and kicking.