Another possibility is that the Zabdamar of today are very much into mysticism. If so, they won't take active action against intruding pirates, they won't have much material wealth for the pirates to be interested in and they will be very well protected against agression.
> > They have onboard mystics who refute the fog?
>
> Cheesy. ;-) "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole
> world, but loses his soul? But for fog-zapping magic, Richard,
> for fog-zapping..." Not only does this seem a distinctly
> 'manifest' activity, to say the least, I think the Zabdamar
> would tend to regard it as ecological warfare (not that that isn't
> an amusing hook in itself).
No no, the onboard mystic doesn't destroy the fog by refuting it, he just refutes its effect on his vision.
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