I've played by the rules long enough, 2 years in the Mimitar foriegn service running intellegence ops deep inside the caldari corperation, as far as im concered they're a bunch of hump sucking drones with absolutly no sense of purpose in their lives.
So i created my own purpose. I took everything i learned about the boarders and transit routes, and i put it to my own good use. Let the state and federation worker bees conduct all the sweat work, Ill just lighten their loads a little bit.
In this universe pilots are free to choose their own econonmic and political destonies. Some choose to mine the resources of our great frontieers. Some conduct cargo runs. Still others try to flex thier muscles by hunting bounty on outlawed pilots. I keep all these guys very busy. Still they are constantly trying to make faster ships or better weapons, but they just dont get it... brains are better weapon then any Megathron class battleship or graviton smartbomb. My brains have built an emipre all on my own.