In Sean Williams's Fatal Alliance, smuggler and former Republic privateer Jet Nebula commands the Auriga Fire as it interdicts a lightly armed cruiser in Wild Space. Prize-taking depends on coercion and boarding, while the crew's financial loyalties are already dividing. Jet defeats his first mate's attempted takeover just as the target destroys itself, apparently to keep something valuable out of the pirates' hands. The planned boarding action becomes an intelligence and salvage problem, as Jet decides to search the debris.
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Fatal Alliance turns Star Wars into a privateering story
Sean Williams's Star Wars: The Old Republic novel follows a privateer's attempted boarding, an internal mutiny, and a target that destroys itself to deny capture.