The novel “Starship: Pirate” by Mike Resnick was published for the first time in 2006. It’s the secoind novel in the “Starship” series and is the sequel of Starship: Mutiny”. The crew of the former Republic starship Theodore Roosevelt decided to rebel and, commanded by Captain Wilson Cole, decided to become pirates. Their struggle, however, is against the military leadership, which they judged incompetent, not against innocent people. As a result, they must decide what kind of targets they want to attack.