  |
This article's content is marked as Mature The page contains mature content that may include coarse language, sexual references, and/or graphic violent images which may be disturbing to some. Mature pages are recommended for those who are 18 years of age and older. If you are 18 years or older or are comfortable with graphic material, you are free to view this page. Otherwise, you should close this page and view another page. |
| “ | This is the tale of Hoyt's privateers, hired guns with hearts full of lead. Some hail from armies, some recruited raw, all intend big profits from the end of your life. They are the true power on the island... and finally now I'm sick of this song. | „ |
| ~ Survival guide on The Privateers. |
The Privateers are the main antagonists of the 2012 first-person-shooter video game Far Cry 3. Founded and led by Hoyt Volker, they are an armed group of paramilitary mercenaries based on the Rook Islands facilitating Volker's trafficking network in the South Pacific, assisting both Buck Hughes and Vaas Montenegro due to their positions as Volker's associates in eliminating any resistance to his tyrannical grip on the Islands.
History[]
Sometime before 2012, Hoyt Volker came to the Rook Islands to expand his business, consisting of running a slave and drug ring. Due to this, he hired and brought the Privateers as his main security defense for his business from the local rebel force and Rakyat tribes. They can be distinguished by their yellow clothing and armor, compared to Vaas' red and black pirates.
The Privateers take the Pirates' positions as enemy faction once the player reaches the Southern Island of the Rook Islands, which is Hoyt's main trafficking post, also with them being tougher to take down, but once the player acquires the Privateer recruit uniform, they will only attack if provoked.
Far Cry 3[]
During the events of Far Cry 3, Jason Brody had infiltrated a Privateer recruitment center and stole a recruits uniform. After meeting Hoyt, Jason met Sam Becker. An undercover C.I.A operative for Willis Huntley and one of Hoyt's top-ranking Privateers. After Jason is forced to torture his own brother on hopes of not breaking his cover, he pledges to him that he will destroy both Hoyt and his organization. After Brody and Becker cut his communication center and destroy his supply lines, Hoyt becomes furious as to who is wrecking his resources. But when it clicks to Hoyt, he invites Sam and Jason to a poker game in his compound as an attempt to kill them, but little does he know that they were planning to kill them too. Once Sam looses the first game, Hoyt stabs him in the throat, killing him instantly, and mutilating Jason by cutting off his ring finger. After Hoyt was killed by Jason in revenge for Sam, Jason realities what Hoyt had just told him during their fight, Hoyt was going to sell Jason's brother, and was at one of the Privateers air-strips prepping to be sold to one of Hoyt's clients in Yemen. After a chase through the Rook islands evading the privateers, Jason finds his brother and flee on one of Hoyt's personal helicopters shooting down the remains of Hoyt's security forces.
Little is known about what happened to the remaining Privateers on the Rook islands following the escape of Jason Brody and his brother, and the death of Hoyt and Sam Becker. It is assumed that they were either killed by the local Rakyat and Rebel tribes, or they might have been arrested by a new Rook Islander government.
Gallery[]
[]
 Villains
| ||
|
Krieger Corporation Alliance for Popular Resistance United Front for Liberation and Labour Hoyt's Privateers Omega Force Royal Army The Golden Path The Disciples Project at Eden's Gate Fuerzas Nacionales de Defensa Shadow Place Others | ||