A question, Dusty. If lets say you are right and Zoners get most of their food from the Core, then why is it that FP15 and not 9, is the greatest exporter of Food in the Omicrons?
Why go the extra length of unloading food on FP15 when you can just dock on FP9. Unless we of course presume that all of those infocards are rubbish. But you could also draw the conclusion that if all merchants comming back from the Core load off food at Freeport 9 then Freeport 15 must produce almost all of its own food.
Following that logic, if FP15 provides more food than FP9, that means that more food is being PRODUCED than it is being IMPORTED from the Core.
EDIT: Can anybody give me a quote from the vanilla bar rumours that state that Zoners are the largest providers of food for Corsairs. I looked everywhere and the only thing I could find was:
1) Pharmaceuticals are the most vital element that Zoners bring to Corsairs. Food is mentioned in a brief list as an after thought.