It is certainly good to hear your fondness and your enthusiasm towards the edge worlds. We definitely need more people with attitude like yours to join our ever growing family.
Referring to your brother, I can tell you life in the edge worlds certainly don't come without risk, but it also equally returns with huge rewards. Having said that, it also really depends on the perspective of "safe". It is true that the Omicrons can harbor unseen enemies, but you could equally risk targeted by pirates when trading in house space. Factions like the Lane hackers, Rogues and Xenos will gladly take your life at any moment if you are not too careful.
Anyway, from what I understand, you have not been a Zoner before. I hope you know the basis of Zoner and their philosophy ? We tend to live more of a conceal life with the goal of achieving things through peaceful means (whenever possible). We also sometimes have to do undesirable things such as complying to demands of another (e.g. Dropping contrabanned cargo) in order to maintain our neutrality. Will you be able to handle situations such as this ?
If so and you still wish to join the Phoenix, please give us your S.K.Y.P.E protocol (privately if you wish), and I will gladly run through few final things with you before accepting you into our family.