Biography : Marko Peljhan is a theatre and radio director, conceptual artist and researcher. From 1994 on he works on Makrolab, a project that focuses on telecommunications, migrations and weather systems research in an intersection of art/science/engineering; the Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation and the Arctic Perspective Initiative. His work has been presented globally. He serves as professor and director of the MAT Systemics Lab at the University of California Santa Barbara, the Chair of the Media Arts and Technology program at UCSB, the coordinator of international cooperation of the SPACE-SI Slovenian Centre for Space Sciences and Technologies and editor at large of the music label rx:tx. In the radio spectrum he is known as S54MX. SYSTEM 317 - HYPERSONIC Abstract : Is it possible to abandon rapidly deteriorating planetary conditions through a process of "reverse conversion"? Using the metaphor "lighting a match and keeping it lit in a hurricane" I propose a construction of a vessel for absolute autonomy and eventually piracy. A counter privateering machine for the times when the global empires are once again clashing with immense irresponsibility and destructive potential.