The answer, of course, is Raya. She'd have his compass, his ship, and his rum before he finished his first slurred sentence.
Here’s a good short story inspired by the idea of a fictional pirates movie from 2005. pirates movie 2005
But the Sunda aren’t empty.
The plot unfurls like a damp sail. Raya isn't after gold. She's after the Galuh Pusaka , a legendary galleon that sank in 1603 carrying the Tulang Naga —the "Dragon's Bones," a set of celestial maps that prove the Sunda Strait belonged to an independent sultanate, not the Company. Whoever controls the bones controls the sea lanes. And the Company’s man on the ground, the pale-eyed, soft-spoken Governor Thorne (Mark Strong, all velvet menace), wants to burn every native kingdom to the ground. The answer, of course, is Raya
Thorne catches them at the reef. He doesn't want the letter. He wants to sink it. "A free Sunda," he says, standing on Ashworth's surrendered sword, "is a Sunda that sells to the French. To the Dutch. To anyone. I'm not a villain, Captain. I'm a grocer. And grocers hate chaos." But the Sunda aren’t empty