SPACE PIRATES! How does one become a Space Pirate?

Excerpts from my short story--"Welcome to the Brethren"

...Captain Eric Roush, a name and a man who no longer existed, had commanded a mere cargo vessel hauling other people’s junk through the lonely void of space until a few months ago. He’d taken on the occasional smuggling job, forging a container’s manifest to make a little extra money here and there, but he’d never gotten caught. He thought he’d slipped under the radar, but someone had noticed, and it wasn’t the authorities....

...The name she had given him was Anne Bonny, but a search of the name revealed nothing more than the story of an 18th Century pirate who marauded the Caribbean Sea with her lover, John (Calico Jack) Rackham. Anne was a mystery, a welcome mystery to be sure, but a mystery nonetheless....

...“Before you can drink that, we must strike a bargain, come to an arrangement, seal the deal, you understand?  My employer can take care of those money problems…if you agree to work for us.”...