Similar to Be The Zombie mode in dying light where you don't join as a survivor but a powerful zombie enemy...
In sea of thieves you would join as a skeleton lord in a skeleton ship of your choosing.
You are restricted to 1 skeleton ship per server as we need more pirates than undead.
Skeleton crews have their own skeleton cosmetics and ship cosmetics but can wear their own clothes and weapons too so you could play as your undead version of your pirate.
Skeletal ship cosmetics are different to pirate ship items.
Voyages are different.
Factions won't work with you except reapers. Infact, reapers reveal themselves to be your main point of contact and set you in your path of destruction. What these voyages could be I have not yet worked out but we could make them different.
Npcs at Outposts will shudder in fear when you are near them in typical cartoony rare fashion.
Skeleton Lords receive rep and rewards for doing stuff that assists flameheart and hurts pirates.
For example protecting a skeleton Fort against pirate attack.
Defending skeleton fleets from attack and assisting skeleton ships.
Stealing loot and returning it to the reapers.
Killing pirates and overall just being treated as a formidable PVE threat.
Your purpose is to impose the iron will of flameheart.
Things still need to be worked out of course such as stuff to prevent skellies and pirates teaming up and murdering each other consentuslly for exp and gold gains etc. But regardless, I think the concept as a whole is interesting.
In a way I would view these pvp skeleton crews as a main boss of flameheart. The skeleton crew would be limited to 1 ship only per server and work exactly the same as other ships.
It just all depends on whether or not this is all too similar to reapers and whether it's worth doing or not.
