Should Traders in RP, use Jump Holes?

[Unseelie]

Before the invention of Gates, before the application of lanes, corporate traders flew, for months, in the depths between stars. Risky? I'm sure.

Once gates were developed, the Houses expected pirates to die out, as the time differential would be too huge, but they didn't. They were using holes, and it hugely suprised the houses. They had no idea how the pirates were getting around. Eventually, they found out how. In the campaign, Juni knows of a couple, herself.

After that, after the houses figured out what was going on, after the IMG and the GMG, the Bounty hunters, and finally the Zoners, if the corporations had, by some bizzare stretch of the imagination, never discovered them by other means, you cannot imagine that they don't know of every jumphole known by the IMG, the Hunters, the Zoners, anyone would sell the information, to someone they barely know (such as, for example, Trent).

Once they know of the lanes, its simply a risk/profit assessment.
If the profits to be made outway the risk of losing insurance (and are we assuming that every insurance house is unwilling to insure jumphole traders, or just the ageria connected ones? or that they're -all- connected to ageria? Poppycock.) I've been pirated more often on lanes than I have in open space, as a lane is a line. Open space is a huge area, much harder to cover. Were I a pirate (and on occasion I am) I'd focus on the areas of highest traffic flow, the bottlenecks of Sirius, the tradelanes. And were I a trader worried about piracy, I'd -avoid- the lanes, which means, quite often, using the jump holes.

And, of course, Turkish is right.

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