Live and Learn

I was captured by a pirate today, one Zenk Zarr. He stripped away my vessel's (Bestower I) armor and shields and threatened to destroy me unless I paid an appropriate ransom. The lives of my crew paramount in my mind, I paid the brigand, whereupon he destroyed me anyway, looted my ship and salvaged my vessel.

Lesson learned, pirate filth. I'll never make that mistake again.