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Name's Michael, or Mike if you want. Either's fine. Just your friendly neighborhood merchant. Brutor by birth, but I go where the money is. The way I figure it, if you're going to be a trader, it's better to not burn any bridges when you aren't sure the others won't spontaneously combust, as Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation put it.

So, here's some handy tips to live by, if nothing else (and others have likely said, too):

-Don't fly what you can't easily replace.
-Don't let your drones randomly attack things in missions - you can quickly find yourself swarmed with no way of escape.
-If you're not claiming the contents of your wrecks, abandon them so someone else can have them.
-Always be aligned with something, ANYTHING - you can quickly escape if you're jumped.
-As long as you're not in a militia at war with an empire and your standings with them are -2.0 or higher, you can freely operate in their territory.