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Anyone smuggling Artifacts from Crete to Manhattan is not choosing the most profitable smuggling route for Artifacts, plain and simple. Nor is it the least dangerous.
Artifacts are 30 credits per unit cheaper to purchase from Leon Base, than Crete, and the route through Bretonia certainly doesn't take longer than through Alaska, and is possibly shorter. Plus, you don't have to worry about Nomads, nor who is ambushing you at Zone 21.
If you can't make it to Manhattan, Beaumont Base in Texas is the second best price for selling them.
I assume that you aren't taking passengers back to Crete, so I wonder what you are taking...possibly light arms. Try Counterfeit Software back to Leon Base.
So there, that eliminates any reason for Corsairs to use Alaska, and the mod doesn't need to be changed at all.
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