Time pirate

Time pirates are a group of rogue time travelers that disregard the consequences of changing history in process of time travel for the sake of profit. These time criminals were hunted down by the Time Masters and the bounty hunters in their employ, such as Chronos and the Pilgrim, and later, after the Oculus device and a great part of Time Masters' HQ in the Vanishing Point were destroyed, by the ex-Time Master Andrew Davenport's vigilante team; the BSSSD. Time pirates, as well as other time criminals, are often the source of historical aberrations.

Overview
Time pirates operate on time ships, a type of spaceship that is also able to travel through time. Unless created by themselves, the pirates use captured vessels of Time Masters in their illicit trade, and generally seek out new ships to capture. The pirates use futuristic weaponry that they also sell to buyers throughout time, including to those leaving in Medieval time period, causing potential aberrations.

== History == Andrew's team first encountered time pirates while trying to contact a flagship vessel of the Time Masters' Time Fleet. Deciding to rescue the owner in exchange for getting an updated Time Masters' database that would help locate Zekiel's appearances throughout time, Rip Hunter and a part of his team boarded the ship, only to get captured by a gang of time pirates. Andrew tried to negotiate their release, but they didn't buy his bluff and held him hostage, wanting to trade him and his team's lives in exchange for the Waverider. While Zack temporarily sided with time pirates, the team managed to overpower them and take back both ships, acquiring the necessary database from the owner's back-up ship.

The BSSSD would further encounter time pirates in the future, after severely weakening the Time Masters organization, destroying their hold on timeline. Now choosing to protect the timeline from various time criminals themselves, the BSSSD started targeting historical aberrations, usually caused by time pirates. Preventing or negating the effects of aberrations, the BSSSD kept the timeline in (roughly) the same form. One such aberration would include a battle against blaster-wielding assassins in 17th century France, with their futuristic weaponry provided by time pirates.