EXTREMELY high value cargo

[Karst]

I am strongly in favor of this. But why stop at contraband?

Give much, much higher base prices to things like diamonds.
Or Luxury consumer goods. A box full of iPhones should be worth thousands of times more than the same amount of like.....water.
Give anything like that....cigars, gold, holo-tainment bands, light arms, any form of contraband etc., base prices between ore and Gallic artifacts, as well as somewhat higher profit margins.

Basically, filling an entire 5k with stuff like that should be a massive investment, that one shouldn't even consider without careful planning.

Small, well-defended transports can carry the good stuff, while large trains can carry bulk goods.....water, gases, fertilizers, raw materials, that sort of thing.

Edit: I realize what I'm saying isn't really what you're suggesting. But it's along similar lines of thought soooo yeah.

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