Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Cilician pirates were a naval force operating in the Mediterranean Sea during the 2nd and 1st century BC. They became the most considerable naval power in the Eastern Mediterranean by the early first century BC after Rome failed to eliminate them.
One of the primary sources of income for Cilician pirates was the capture and sale of human beings. Historical records indicate that ten thousand slaves passed through Delos markets in a single day at the height of their operations.
Pompey received extraordinary powers under the lex Gabinia in 66 BC to eliminate the Cilician pirates completely. His two-stage operation lasted exactly eighty-nine days, with forty days clearing the western Mediterranean and forty-nine days completing the eastern campaign.
Julius Caesar experienced firsthand the dangers of piracy when he was kidnapped by Cilician raiders in 75 BC while aged twenty-five. He demanded his captors raise the ransom from twenty talents to fifty talents before they released him, later crucifying them as promised.
Surrendered pirates were resettled in southern Asia Minor where populations remained sparse. Many found new homes at Soli which was renamed Pompeiopolis after its founder, along with additional settlements established at Mallus, Adana, and Epiphaneia within Cilicia.