History Main / Privateer

** Following the TimeSkip, Buggy the Clown has started an organization called the Pirate Temp Agency, whose member crews and warriors are allowed to pillage and plunder for the highest bidder. [[spoiler:It's legal because Buggy became a Warlords, providing him with UltimateJobSecurity.]]

* Less known but perhaps more influential than Amargo was Miguel Enríquez, a 16th century mulatto soldier who worked his way up as a contrabandist, pirate and eventually privateer of the Spanish Empire, amassing a fleet of dozens of ships and basically becoming the richest man in the Caribbean at its time. He was not officially referred as a privateer, but a ''guardacostas'', an euphemistic term for people hired to fight off foreign contraband and piracy who nonetheless privateered the regular way whenever they could.

[[caption-width-right:350:Queen Elizabeth I knighting privateer Sir Francis Drake.]]

* Sir Francis Drake. So good at his job, he was knighted.

* In ''Fanfic/TheBridge'', after the attempted attack on Canterlot gets [[ForWantOfANail derailed]] thanks to a CurbStompBattle by Xenilla's doing, [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 Commander Tempest]], Grubber, and the yeti crew decide to pull a HeelFaceTurn once the restorations are done and got legit as privateers instead of raiders or pirates.

** Rogue Traders are half privateers, half {{Intrepid Merchant}}s. They have actual letters of marque, some of which are hereditary. These letters of marque are incredibly valuable and can date their origins back thousands of years, with some having clauses restricting the owner to certain sectors or putting them in the service of certain organisations or noble houses. Rogue Traders often have entire fleets and armies at their disposal, and unlike many in the Imperium they are not persecuted for interactions with Xenos in order to achieve the wider Imperium's goals.