It's 60 mill there and back on the alaska run
3 system jump
That gives you ample margin to hire an escort
I already did - a random dude made 11 mill for flying with me still got 55 mill profit.
It goes through NY where a lot of random ships fly
I'm off to buy a battle transport and keep hiring people to escort me, FUN!
4Xenos is a bit excessive, but Navy will follow when peak comes - they get bonus bounty remember
EDIT: Btw demands still should be reasonable right? So like $10mill per encounter should get you through? It's not the "combat target" thing from last event, but a RP-promoting one with extra incentive for people to shoot you
But they still should make reasonable demands I assume and let you go if you accept
Very smartly setup event if you ask me, maybe could hike up profits even more if lawful guys won't bite and go to the systems to protect traders and get bounties
Not sure why they wouldn't though