....but I still don't have a story! I have my pirate but I dunno what he is gonna do! You might attack this problem by leveraging the world-building you've done, looking for obvious areas of conflict in the world as stories for the pirate.
For instance, I imagine you're familiar with Mal Reynolds from Firefly. What he does, episode to episode, stems from the larger decision to put him in a solar system that roughly parallels, on a grand scale, the American frontier after the Civil War. Whedon defined Mal as existing in opposition to the winning group and their concepts for how civilization should run.
If all that wasn't determined first, none of the episodes could have been written second.
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You might attack this problem by leveraging the world-building you've done, looking for obvious areas of conflict in the world as stories for the pirate.
For instance, I imagine you're familiar with Mal Reynolds from Firefly. What he does, episode to episode, stems from the larger decision to put him in a solar system that roughly parallels, on a grand scale, the American frontier after the Civil War. Whedon defined Mal as existing in opposition to the winning group and their concepts for how civilization should run.
If all that wasn't determined first, none of the episodes could have been written second.