Well , here is the story of Matthew Crestilver.
Long , long ago , in a small village in Syria during a warning crescent moon,
a small space asteroid came falling through the atmosphere, it was small , no more then a few inches across, and in that small coastal Syrian village a child was born as
the asteroid was seen to pass by the moon in the night sky.
No later the asteroid impacted near the village , and a few people went to see what it was, and for some strange reason or another the uncle of the newborn child brought him to see the crater. When he walked to the bottom , he found a small rock,
after a short look , he saw it was a diamond! Stating that he would make a necklace for the child, containing the diamond, and so he did. Many years passed and the child grew up , till the age of about 16, when a strange flag was spotted of to the
distance of the horizon. As it got closer it was seen that it was a British Man-o-war
off course searching to raid Istanbul after a encounter with Barbary Corsairs.
Many long boats started coming ashore and the British started firing at the village,
many villagers ran as fast as they could away from the range of the long 9s, but still in a small shack gathering water and weapons remained the boy and his uncle.
Just as they were about the leave and run off , a British naval officer burst through and stabbed the boys uncle, but no later was the officer hit by a cannon from his own ship. The boy's uncle lay on the floor , dieing, he gave him the necklace with
the diamond on the crescent moon, as his dieing wish he asked the boy to keep safe. Doing so, the boy ran off to find his parents and escape his burning village.
Sometime later , he finally found them in Damcus, the largest city in the region.
There he lived for a few month before going made with hate against the Navy
and setting of to Tunis on a long journey. There in Tunis he signed up on a pirate's ship and began plundering for a few months while rising up the rank during that time all the way to first mate. Then one day , while attacking British merchant
shipping, the captain was hit with a grape shot and died , assuming command
the First mate Matthew Crescentsilver the boy we started with in the beginning of
the story. Steering the ship away from the defending frigate, they made it back to port, where he reloaded and began his life as captain on the Fastest Xebec in the
Mediterranean The نسر ذهبي (english translation, the silver eagle).
Over a year or so, the sultan of turkey took interest in it captures and offered
to make he head of his entire navy , however he declined and proposed that
the sultan offer a East Indiaman instead in exchange for patrolling the waters off the straights of Gibraltar. He was given the East Indiaman and continued to plundered off the coast of North Africa.
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