-keep out of omicron 100!-

[Tenacity]

Thats what smuggling is going places where you are not welcome, carrying things that contraband there is no rule that says no one but said factions are allowed in guard systems.

And no, that's not what smuggling is. Smuggling is keeping a low profile while you carry contraband so you DONT get caught.

Going through a system that's, for all intents and purposes, restricted to Order vessels only is -not- keeping a low profile. Every ship there is going to scan you given the chance, and once you're found out they will hound you until you're dead.

There's hundreds of Order fighters in that system, as well as three bases and a battleship. They have the resources to kill one smuggler trying to move through it without escorts - that should be more than enough to deter any smuggler from using the route.

And it's not just that - even if you did manage to make it through O-100, you'd have to go through omicron minor - where you're awaited by a few hundred more fighters and another battleship - and after that you'd have to go through alaska; the most heavily defended system in all of liberty. There's dozens of npc patrols around the gate and bouy path in alaska consisting of gunboats, cruisers, fighters, and dreadnaughts.

No smuggler, realistically, would make it through any one of those systems without a cloaking device - and oh, hey, they dont exist in the mod! The only ship to ever use a cloaking device in vanilla was the osiris, and I'm damn sure you smugglers dont have access to that tech.

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