that’s important as fuck

cordeliaistheone:

You’re talking about a floating castle. No one has ever taken a treasure galleon like that as a prize.

Let me worry about hunting her. It’s what comes after for which I’ll need your help.

After? Why return at all to Nassau? With money like that and my father out of business, why not run?

What’s coming our way can’t be outrun. But with the money I strip from the Hulk, we could add 50 guns to the fort. We could build ships to defend our shores and train new men to sail them. We could work the land, grow crops and raise cattle. Then whoever arrives on our shores first, be it England or Spain, will be in for a most unwelcome surprise. A nation of thieves.

(Laughing)

You have your doubts?

Of turning pirates into farmers and soldiers? Of fighting a war against Whitehall from a sliver in the Atlantic? Doubt, Captain Flint, does not begin to describe how I am feeling.

If there’s to be a war, that will be Whitehall’s choice. I’d settle for a pardon, title on lands, and a governor that I could trust. And so would most of the men out there. They’re not animals, Mr. Scott. They’re men starved of hope. Give that back to them, who’s to say what could happen?