RP Commodities

[Xoria]

If they are mountable equipment they will be far less visible to anyone who scans you, since a scan shows the cargo hold first. I rarely look at any of the equipment on a ship I scan but almost always check out passing cargo. Since they don't actually functionally do anything, having them mounted as equipment accomplishes nothing but preventing them from being lost upon ship destruction, which they certainly ought to be. And as noted, they are available at every research base and many freeports in the game, so they are widely accessible.