Just wondering if this is at all practical or doable.
There are certain low-sec systems wherein the marketplaces are stocked with a lot of valuable cargo selling at a fraction of high-sec prices, but where getting the cargo out of the system safely is all but impossible. My idea here is to fire a PVP gang to just go there and beat up everyone that moves, except me ofc, at some pre-defined time allowing me to DST the cargo out as fast as possible to a more accessible storage station, because later hauling it to high-sec for sale at a substantial profit.
DSTing stuff out of low-sec is a regular activity of many, of course, but there are a couple of “tough nut to crack” systems where I just don’t think it’s realistic to clobber their marketplaces without first ensuring that all hell has broken loose and nobody cares about that mastodon going back and forth.
Clearly that’s a risk. One of the potential side benefits of successfully conducting such an effort would be finding a mercenary gang that can resist the temptation to betray someone at the first chance in favor of keeping a relationship with someone who wants to pay them to cause trouble in the right places at the right times.
I don’t think I’d make enough on that triangle to make it worth my own time, tbh.
The market fluctuates wildly sometimes, but in general whenever a station that is solo shopable as a hauler gets something worth getting, it doesn’t last long. Where a fairly substantial cache of products does build up sometimes is in these particularly tough systems, where it’s simply too dangerous to extract the goods under normal circumstances.
