Mmm, perhaps. With the number of satellites around these days, everyone knows where ships are, all the time. There's a big difference in technologies between m

Mmm, perhaps. With the number of satellites around these days, everyone knows where ships are, all the time. There's a big difference in technologies between making power and making a militarily useful weapon. If you want to develop the capability to do the latter, it's probably better to start from uranium ore than from piracy. It'll take quite a few years either way, and ore refining is more scalable.