Trevor Collins
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becoming desperate, really just digging deep.
It's like a sunk cost fallacy.
They're like, all right, if we're going to go in, let's go all the way in.
We've already attacked the English Empire.
We've already recruited from the Danes and other people.
So we've already made enemy of multiple nations.
What's one more?
So they chase it down.
And in doing this, they actually lose a few of the ships because some of them are just not up to speed.
So some of them drop off.
Maybe they get a little fearful and turn away.
We don't know.
But ultimately, as you kind of astutely pointed out, this highlights the feeble nature of this alliance built on greed.
How are you going to rope together multiple pirates when they're all so used to fighting for themselves?
Yeah.
So some are peeling off.
Some are just too slow.
They get left behind.
In the end, most of the pirate fleet had just been too slow to catch up to the convoy, which is partially why we end up with so few.
Truly, yeah.