Land Pirates...

[Jerry246 32]

We already have air pirates and sea pirates in the seris, so what if this third type of pirate existed in the pony world?

As in classic old timey seagoing pirates like these

Riding around on something resembling this:

Wouldn't call this tank, but rather a Landship as the circumstances that gave Tanks their name never happened in the Pony World. Also Landship sounds cooler.

Now they didn't build the Landship themselves but rather stole it off of some unnamed far off technologically advanced nation..

Just imagine an episode or comic that for once dipped it's toes into the dieselpunk genre via the landship and the existence of technologically advanced nation.

[North Star 4,540]

interesting. Bandit tank-ponies

also, this made me look up the etymology of pirate

and unlike many things in our messy made up language, it actually has a pretty clear history:

Middle English: from Latin pirata, from Greek peiratēs, from peirein ‘to attempt, attack’ (from peira ‘an attempt’).

pirates and brigands. attempters and contenders 

[Evil Pink One 12,977]

Then where did rainbow dash got the word tank then?