Prologue
No one knows from whence they came or how they came into being. All that is known about the Robo Pirates is that their unquenchable greed led them out of their homeworld on an odyssey of plunder throughout the galaxy. In the early days of their raids they were mildly successful in their goals and were only seen as a mild threat to the peace of the worlds they assaulted. This all changed once Admiral Razorbeard came into power.
Razorbeard's origins were humble; as a youth he was merely a deckhand on the Claudia. Always mocked for his diminutive stature, Razorbeard developed ferocity and cunning to make up for his weakness. He began to gain prominence among the pirates and eventually, when his captain disappeared under mysterious circumstances, became Captain of the Claudia. His hunger for power did not end there: in four years he had united the rag-tag Pirate crews into a fleet through force and secret diplomacy.
Wasting no time to declare himself Admiral of the Robo Pirate fleet, Razorbeard led savage, coordinated attacks throughout the galaxy. His power grew rapidly as wealth flowed to his homeworld every day and prisoners were shipped as slaves to toil for their robotic masters. The Claudia, renamed the Buccaneer by its new master, was the largest of these slave ships, bringing a grim cargo back to the Pirates' planet after a successful series of raids.
During one of his conquests, Razorbeard attacked a small, remote planet with his fleet. He expected it to go the same way as his other conquests; it didn't. A hero named Rayman escaped from the Buccaneer, united the four legendary Masks of Polokus and drove the Pirates out of his world. This is not his story. Instead, this is the story of the Buccaneer and her inhabitants, both pirate and slave, observing history during Rayman's adventure…