A little pirate history.

A fact that is little known to the common man: There have actually been 42 total world wars in the history of... history.

In the history of Pirates Vs. Ninjas, there has always been a great competition between the two over the best technology. All the way up until WW38 that is...

Pirates had actually passed Ninjas in with their technology. Pirates had better weapons, better food, and better medicine. But, their great downfall also began soon after WW38. Alcohol.

After WW38, Pirates began to get bored with just having a huge feast after a war, they began to hunger for something different... something... that wasn't food. They wanted something that would make them feel like a complete idiot for hours on end, for no particular reason. The pirate king at the time, "Captain Iva Hardon", had all of his best scientists, including Einstein, work on this new "idiot serum". Soon after, Einstein came to Iva at night, to tell him that he had found a way to make "idiot serum" on accident, after leaving an orange in a bucket for 3 weeks (how he did this on accident will never be answered). Soon after, Pirates were making all sorts of "idiot serum" and distributing it throughout their ranks. Captain Iva Hardon made specific orders to only drink the serum after victory in a war or battle. Pirates followed this rule, untill WW39 (about 4 weeks after WW38... They didn't last long in my opinion). In WW39, they faced off with the Ninjas in southern Egypt over an argument about which was cooler elephants or giraffes. (This was a common argument between Pirates and Ninjas because they obviously couldn't argue "Which is cooler, Pirates or Ninjas"). After the glorious victory for Pirates, they drank their "idiot serum" for days on end after WW39, the only problem was, they still haven't stopped...

Captain Iva Hardon soon got a slur to his speech, and developed a speech impediment. Eventually, the only thing that was heard from him, was a mumbled phrase that sounded like "rrouuam", which was eventually dedicated as the name of the "idiot serum", making the serum from this point on be known as "Rum" (They had to alter it, because the only person who could actually pronounce this was Captain Iva Hardon..)