Meh. I usually try to haggle with unlawfuls whenever I get pirated on my smuggler, and most times I manage to drop the price a bit or agree to abort the cash fee altogether for a small favour.
In fact (not counting the times I slammed into a planet after going AFK in a trade lane for a minute or two) I only really died twice in my trader. Once to a fairly bothered mercenary, and the other time to an ornery lowlife looking for an excuse to blow up a train. I also only ever got caught with contraband by a lawful once (which was Dusty during the one week that he had a Liberty GB of his own patrolling in California, damn him for ruining my record!), and I run contraband into Liberty a fair bit:P
How do I do it? Sometimes I pay off the unlawfuls to make a nice diversion, other times I just use an obscure route and dock on an obscure unlawful base, when avoiding detection is not an option.
The point is there's a lot of ways to maintain neutrality among unlawfuls, and going "my ID is junker, you can't pirate me" is definitely not one of them. Acting sly however can be...
