Pirate Ethnography: Science Fiction

They were pirates, she thought, when she saw the way they swaggered and staggered into the tavern. They had the peculiar rolling gait of seamen freshly ashore, but the gold they were showering around was not the navy-issue allotment, and they did not travel in the same sort of packs as navy sailors did. These ones seemed to gravitate to sub-species. She watched them, making notes on her didactic as she followed their progress with her eyes. She keyed her hearing up to high so that she could pick up the cant and slang of their speech--it was key for her ethnography to track and follow the way they spoke to each other, ingroup, and to others, outgroup. She had some theories--

Inspiration: Headline: "Orlando Bloom swashbuckles in Pirates 3"
Story Potential: High.
Notes: Primative colonized planet, pirates, ethnographer, something goes terribly wrong, and she ends up having to seek haven among the pirates. Did I mention pirates?