Old Jack Pirates

"'We've heard so much about you! How you helped the Glowing Hands tribe to defend against the Old Jack Pirates! How you saved Jameson's caravan and saved so many other villages from starvation!' - Nifty, Everdream: Viva La Vida Page 12"

The Organization
The Old Jack Pirates are an extraplanetary paramilitary criminal organization composed of organized mercenaries and pirates led by captains, lieutenants and sergeants. They specialize in raids, ransom, kidnapping, murder, and any other kind of dirty work anyone might need. All of their official soldiers are outfitted with Cartajis armor and helmets, along with accelerator rifles, pistols, submachine guns and sniper rifles. They are the most powerful criminal organization in the Outer Galaxy, with hundreds of mercs and criminals of all kinds within their ranks, heavy weaponry and even medium sized fleets. They have political spies, moles and puppets inside almost every government to prevent them from truly being stopped by the law. They are a faction of their own in the Outer Galaxy.

The Foundation
The organization was formally founded in 4997 A.E. by a human pirate group who discovered how to best use Cartajis for armor, led by a man called Jackson Jacksmith. With the new powerful armor sets they acquired, they conducted many successful raids and grew exponentially in size. With their new wealth, many mercenaries, criminals and pirates decided to join their crew, and as they grew they started being recognized by other governments. Pursuit started after them, but their wealth was enough to severely delay and misinform task forces through corrupt politicians and generals. As the years passed, they grew even more. And Jackson, their leader and coordinator of all their operations, grew older. He acquired life sustaining tech to maintain himself alive, but his days were counted.

The Collapse
Eventually, in 5099 A.E. after 102 years of leading the pirates and at 142 years old, Jackson died of old age. With his death, came a power vacuum so severe within the Old Jack Pirates that they started to break from within. Sergeants betraying other sergeants and officers betraying other officers to get to the throne, besides the consequences of bad decisions taken by Jackson during his period of senility and the refusal of some merc divisions to accept anyone else other than Jackson at the throne. As their organization crumbled, so did their territories and contracts. The Federation navy started truly going after them and destroying their fleets, soldiers and much else. The Felidan freedom fighter "Nifty" Haycheck led the revolt against them and ran them off from Juuna. Over the years, their influence would shrink and they would be nothing more than pockets of criminals across the galaxy, once part of the greatest criminal organization in history.