During the previous pilot shortage the competition 'Poached' the pilots, which means Rex considered them livestock not any more valuable than sheep or maybe the kings deer. Now they are just property to be 'pillaged' by some raiding army. "Hey Ethelred, that damn Viking Bjorn came and 'pillaged' all of my pilots right from my living room", "Yes, bad times, Sven 'poached' several pilots from the lords forest last week, the sheriff of Nottingham is after him I hear...", "Well if you hear of any pilots cheap, I need to replace mine, ye olde shop has run out of good ones, there's only the nags down at the ye olde aeroclub left, and those ones complain too much and want some form of living wage and low work hour", "I heard the vikings were offering them better scraps and less chains for oaring their longships, thats why the shortage, apparently they even stopped using whips"