Wing Commander CIC

I've been thinking about Privateers in the Terran-Kilrathi war and how they were organized and operated. Unfortunately I can't remember any mention of them anywhere except the game Privateer, and i think only the player character gets called that. Since the game is so free-form it doesn't give us much information of how these people actually acted, just a little on how they could have done things. Is there any mention of how Confederation Privateers actually operated (or Kilrathi ones for that matter).