Talk:Melusine Pirates/@comment-67.44.224.60-20200920231058

They lost members in their pursuits? Not that odd, because the precursor to pirates (Viking Raider Ships) often found themselves in a fix to achieve their objective. To compensate, a dead man's corpse would be lashed to the rudder controls after rigging the bow with explosives (black powder/gunpoweder) and a torch...upon completion, they would rig a torch to ingite the explosives upon collision. As the movie "Down Periscope" showed: Oldest rule in the pirates playbook: you don't need to be alive to succeed at your goal.