Aside from that, if you're smuggling, you're getting resources to someone illegally, and the pirates won't give you credits, they'd give you your life. If you travel within the pirate territory, they don't care who you are, they feel like they own you. And the only people would be illegal to smuggle to from DFT standpoint is Sith or Empire or the BHG, which means you'd be hunted in both Pirate and DFT territory, whiuch might mean you're hunted by BHG in general. If you were smuggling for DFT you'd be smuggling information, and DFT wouldn't give you much compared to Empire either, and the Sith are poor. If you were allies with DFT or even the BHG, you'd need a freighter license or bounty hunting license within DFT territory, without it, you'd again be hunted down. Not killed, but charge, unless you did something unruly. But if you couldn't pay the credit fine, items would be taken from you. This is all food for thought for everyone.