Hydrarchy

"Why join the Navy... if you can be a pirate?"

Steve Jobs

Hydrarchy literally meaning Rule of the Waters is a term used to refer to a system of government in which political power is concentrated in pirates or more generally in sailors. The ideology itself is used to ideologically represent actual pirates (as opposed to the File:FDF-Pirate.png internet kind), especially historically.

Pirate societies were historically Stateless Societies, who also believe in semi-equal wages (a captain only got twice as much as an average pirate).

Piracy might also support both right-wing or left-wing economically. For instance, many people see elements of Quasi-socialism in the Victual Brothers and the Likedeelers, who were common people that became pirates and promoted equality, but there were also pirate societies clearly favoring free markets, such as Chinese pirate Wang Zhi, who was a merchant that turned to piracy as a result of Chinese Government strongly regulating sea trade.

History

Ancient Pirates

Pirates have existed since antiquity in the area known as the Mediterranean. An early example of pirates were the Sea Peoples who attacked various Mediterranean civilizations prior to the bronze age collapse.

Medieval Pirates

Pirates were rather prominent in medieval Europe. With some of the most prominent hydrarchs being File:NorseTheo.png Vikings like the Victual Brothers.

The Golden Age of Piracy

TBA

Modern Pirates

In the modern day, hydrarchy is primarily practiced by people in Somalia which is a country that due to civil conflict does not have much economic opportunities. Thus leading a lot of people to raid nearby-ships.

Pirate Code

A pirate code, pirate articles or articles of agreement were a code of conduct for governing pirates. A group of sailors, on turning pirate, would draw up their own code or articles, which provided rules for discipline, division of stolen goods, and compensation for injured pirates. This form of communal governance would typically divvy up the earnings from the loot, with every crew member taking an equal share, with the captain taking two share.

Personality

Hydrarchy acts as the stereotypical pirate you would see in films and cartoons. Based on the pirates in the golden age of piracy like Blackbeard.

Stylistic notes

• Drunk on rum
• Angry
• Violent
• Adventurous
• Speaks with stereotypical Pirate dialect. Meaning forced Rs and the slang.
• Likes to sing sea shanties while travelling somewhere. No matter where.

How to Draw

File:Hydrarchy flag.svg

Flag of Hydrarchy

Hydrarchy's design is based the famous stereotypical "Jolly Roger" flag, used by pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy.

1. Draw a ball.
2. Fill in with black.
3. Draw a skull and crossbones or crossed swords in white.
4. Draw in the eyes.
5. (Optional) Add a brown tricorn and/or eye patch.

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Black	#191919	rgb(25, 25, 25)
	White	#FFFFFF	rgb(255, 255, 255)

Relations

Me Hearties

• File:Front.png Anarcho-Frontierism - Frontiers be epic, can't wait fer space pirates.
• Mercantilism - Sometimes he hires me mateys as privateers.
• Illegalism - If this illegal, it's based.
• Reactionary Socialism - Like Mercantilism, but pays me mateys and I much better. Somethin' about social welfare fer all ye workin' men.
• Queer Anarchism - Arrr, be gay and do crime, eh?
• Agorism - A matey in arms, trades me goods for the gunpowder we use to plunder!
• Plutocracy - Wealth, Fame, Power. ARRRRG! I love havin' 'em valuable doubloons in me collection, ye couldn't believe how massive they're! Bein' rich is life for ME!
• File:Houthi.png Houthis - Yer good at seizing cargo ships. It is a shame rum is "haram" or whatever, but a good matey nonetheless.

Scallywags

• File:FDF-Pirate.png Piratism - Yer ain't real pirates! But we both agree that copyright means nothing.
• Ego-Communism - I like yer soul, kid.
• Anarcho-Capitalism - Yer onto somethin', lad.
• Anarcho-Communism - Yer gettin' closer.
• Platformism - I like how ye be bandits and fly jolly rogers, but I keep mistakin' ye fer one o' me mateys 'cause o' that.
• Avaritionism - Valuable matey, but ye say scary things sometimes.
• File:Jabotite.png Jacobitism - Some of ye became me mateys when the Williamite scurvy dogs made ye dance the hempen jig.
• Satirism - Ye may entertain me mateys, but if ye make fun of us, yer walkin' the PLANK! At least youngins today adore me 'cause o' them "Memes" about me 'ey keep jabbin' on about.

Walk the plank!

• Jeffersonian Democracy - Barbary Wars, nev'r ferget!
• Monarchism - Unless ye wanna hire me and me mateys as "privateers", walk the plank!
• Caesarism - Avast! Ye crucified me mateys! I'll have ye walk the plank fer that!
• Kleptocracy - Ye drenched the legacy of us pirates with yer cowardly ways, ye landlubber! To Davy Jones' locker wit' ye!
• File:Senatorialism (Tentacles).png The Kraken - Why do I hear boss music?
• File:Strato-Antifurry.png The Navy - They are here! Raise the red flag! Hold up, why are the ships lining up like tha-*island explodes*
  • File:WarCrim-Antifurry.png Do not allow a single man to run! Destroy all evil!

• American Model - Maersk Alabama never forget!
• File:Paleoegyptianism-icon.png Egyptian Pagan Theocracy - The only Bronze Age society we haven't collapsed.
• File:PrusSoc.png Spenglerism & Fourth Theory - Aye, the Vikings and the English were among the best of me mates. And?

Further Information

Literature

• Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on the Golden Age of Piracy by Gabriel Kuhn
• Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegades by Hakim Bey
• The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson
• Pirate Utopias: Under the Banner of King Death by Do or Die
• [sic] A General History of the Pyrates: From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time by Captain Charles Johnson
• The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker

Wikipedia

• Hydrarchy
• Piracy
• Golden Age of Piracy
• Republic of Pirates File:Piratrep.png
• Libertatia
• Blackbeard
• Sea Peoples

Videos

• How to be a Pirate: Captain Edition and Quartermaster Edtion by CGP Grey
• How Somalia's Pirates Make Money by PolyMatter
• Why It Sucked to be a Pirate by Sam O'Nella Academy
• Are There Any Pirate Flags Left? and Why Walking the Plank is a PIRATE MYTH by Tapakapa
• Alternate History: What If The Pirate Republic Survived? by Monsieur Z
• The REAL Pirates of the Caribbean by hoser
• The Pirates of the Modern World by The Armchair Historian

Online Communities

• r/Hydrarchy

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