Mer is an extraterrestrial world plagued by evil. The only thing that can stop the encroaching darkness and the ruthless pirate lord who seeks to control it is a motley crew of unlikely heroes - an orphan prince of a formerly powerful kingdom, the last of his line of ancestors; a seasoned pirate whose obsession with treasure hid a heart of gold; a mysterious eco-mancer with ties to a realm beyond mortal men's reach; and a strange creature called a monkey bird is. These were The Pirates of Dark Water, introduced by the famous cartoon company Hanna-Barbera and developed in 1991.