The thing that haunts me about Angel is the truth of the bare facts: the Langsarik's resistance of #Jurisdiction *did* create any number of situations that resulted in tragedy, even if they themselves did all they could to reduce its effect on the relatively "innocent".

Just surviving an unjust system is never clean -- there are always compromises. This is true of resistance, too.

The version of the story where they are pirates isn't entirely wrong. The system can be blamed for making them that way, but they are not easy heroes.