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During the Somali piracy crisis cargo ships could see Somali mother ships deploy raiding skiffs from miles away but the response was so slow and ineffective that only when an actual military presence was deployed on the trade route it was finally brought under control. Another problem was that allowing armed security on ships was frowned upon until recent years. I can see the same kind of mentality pass onto space before enough incidents happen that ships are actually capable of defending themselves but first raiding space convoys would have to be financially viable which could be centuries or even a millennia away. We could perhaps see state sponsored piracy sooner however just like during the age of sail and the conflicts between European nations.