' Wrote:Trading is very different from this. Transports don't have to hold a large piece of space to make money, they simply have to keep their general vicinity safe. Often, that is as simply as two or three escorts to stave off pirates before police or navies respond to SOS. That is much different from fighting off pirates to control an asteroid field.
Fighting off pirates for control of an asteroid field is generally done with fighters, not freighters and transports. And generally doesn't involve pirating. Saying miners should be able to pirate because they have to fight pirates for territory, and trader's can't because they don't, is downright silly.
