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What is useful, however, is having a scout. Get him a good ways out, calling back threat assessments to the trade ship 1-2 tradelanes or 30-40k ahead. If your scotu sees a pirate, get off the lane and start cruising out of range. Take a different lane. Take a different system route, and meet back up ASAP. If your scout's doing his job, and the trader listens to the scout's calls, a transport should never even appear on the pirate's scanners.
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Exactly this. If they were doing that NOW, piracy wouldn't be as much of an issue as people make it out to be...