Space pirates

There are pirates who use Spaceships (usually Asteroid ships, Space cylinders, and Shuttle planes specially converted for rading and combat as well as a few genuine Fighter ships) which are often capable of using Jumpgates who raid worlds, other spaceships, and Permanent space stations for plunder and loot and occasionally slaves. Pirates are mostly based in Hutt Space and the Ferengi Alliance and have Ferengi business interests or Hutt clans as patrons. A number of noble houses, particularly the Mantis Lords, lesser noble houses within the Earth Alliance, the Scorpion and Mantis Clans on Rokugan, and a few noble houses within the Centauri Republic and Romulan Star Empire also engage in space piracy. Droids are often used as soldiers and spaceship crewmembers, although most pirates are Humans or Neosapiens. A number of Klingons who declared their independence of the Klingon Empire are also counted among the pirates.