![]() ![]() The Dendarii Mercenaries in Vorkosigan Saga play with this.The Merchanter's Alliance may also count, comprising a number of nomadic merchant families and one station (plus one of Mazian's ships who defected) who got tired of the war between Earth and the Union and formed their own faction. Cherryh's Alliance/Union universe Conrad Mazian's fleet become pirates after the Earth-Union-Alliance war ends and the Earth Company abandons them. "At the end of the Big War, ten thousand men and women on Abigor, refusing to surrender, had taken the remnant of the System States Alliance navy to space, seeking a world the Federation had never heard of and wouldn't find for a long time." Eight centuries later, their descendants have begun raiding into the territory once held by the now-collapsed Terran Federation. Beam Piper's Space Vikings, in the book of the same title. The Hyperion Cantos has the Ousters, who fit this trope quite nicely.Dune: According to Fremen legends, they were once runaway slaves. ![]()
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