We don't need a pirate faction. Just stop, CG.
Setting aside the fact that pirates had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with Order 66 yet are being used in the raid (well not at launch, they're getting thrown in months later due to CG's garbage sense of planning), CG is going to turn this game in to Marvel Strike Force with all the redundant and overlapping factions. It's starting to get ridiculous.
Introducing a Pirate faction is completely pointless when we already have Scoundrel, Smuggler, Mercenary, and Bounty Hunter. For the most part they all have the same function of "finding people and/or things for money and either killing them, transporting them, or stealing them".
Bounty Hunters, Smugglers, and Pirates are already Mercenaries considering they do what they do for money. And apparently they're ALL technically Scoundrels, which is such a pointless umbrella term that really only vaguely describes them as "unscrupulous or rogue". Since when is a general personality trait enough to make it a faction?? If 50+ toons have the Scoundrel tag, it's too vague and at that point needs to be removed.
At this rate the Scoundrel toons are going to look like a teenage girl's instagram post with a dozen different tags. Some toons already can't fit all their tags in the description and need a "+more" button for you to click and see all of them.