Internal Incident Report at Argon Manurfacturing Facility, Unit 3B.

Security footage has been secured from the Argon Factory closed circuit security feeds.

• 09:07 Hull of a ship can just be identified in the corner of camera 36
• 09:08 Perimiter alarms triggered at door H4. Several unidentified figures seen entering facility through door H4.
• 09:11 Factory shutdown triggered. All assembly lines suspended
• 09:23 First SANA units can be seen transported out of the building
• 10:01 Security team A attempt to aprehend intruders. Significantly outnumbered and end up restrained (see attached injury report DZ-0138)
• 11:28 Final SANA units seen being removed from the building
• 11:31 Security team D attempt to apprehend the vessel. Security team unable to intervene due to taking cannon fire (see attached injury report DZ-0140)
• 11:31 Camera feed 39 shows cannon fire impacting the building, causing significant damage to fascade and rendering door H3 unuseable
• 11:33 Ship appears to leave the premesies.

Security teams have been advised to increase patrol routes on the riverside portion of the site. It has been noted that there is no fencing on that portion of the property. Fascilities team is investigating possible solutions.

A popular shanty can be heard down at the Anathema Arms

[…] Of course it many of the trappings of Pirates are commonly associated to Zoe Buckley's epic “The Blood Red Seas”, best known as a film, but was actually a play that ran 2 years earlier, also staring Buckley in the role of the infamous Pirate Captain “Red”, as she's refered to in the text. However in an intereview Buckley gave at the premier of the play, she revealed the character is largely based on a mix of real historic pirates, whom she researched extensively during the show's production.

Examining the sources further that she mentions in one televised interview, we can see some of the other tropes we also know today. The common use of the colour red, particularly in flag designs, comes directly from “Captain Cope”, the most well known pirate of the era. At the the time a wide variety colours (and indeed designs) were used in flags, with only Cope's crew keeping Red as the primary motif.

Cope is also thought to have inspired the potrayal of Pirates sailing in fleets, rather than just inidividual ships, another facet again popularised by Buckley's play[…]

From “Avast: A History Of Media Depictions of Piracy in Nequam”

“It was a dark and stormy night, and the thick fog rolled across the sea. The lonely night watch stood on deck, looking out across the waves. The, out of the mist, a ship emerged, heading straight for them. But this was no ordinary ship - no, this was a ghost ship. And standing at the bow of the ship was an accountant…”

“An accountant?! What kind of nonsense ghost story is this”

“Hey don't blame me, I didn't make it up. That's just how the story goes, alright? So, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, there was a ghost ship, and on the deck stood an accountant…”