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Banner of King Death Summary Pirates followed lucrative trade, but avoided the Royal Navy just as much. Both factors were important when they needed to settle or offload booty. This resulted in the clustering and dispersing of pirates by the hundreds all the time. It was important for them to find a balance between distance from trade routes and navy bases. Most pirates had been driven to piracy because of horrible conditions on the merchant or navy ships they had served on previously. The captains had absolute rule, and the crewmen were so overcome by sickness an