Had this thought in another topic, Why not allow the player and ai to use this as a cheap shot (for lack of a better word)? Be it dubious goods (deniable action) "oh so sorry that batch of lobster was bad we had no idea must have spoiled on way yes" to flat out harmful/sabatoged goods "oh man that sucks we had no idea the antimatter on the fuel was unstable it's a good thing it just blew a warehouse". The idea behind this is to allow more cloak and dagger and give smugglers a bit more use besides luddic nonsense (why not pirate nonsense? most their craft has shielded holds!) of course the factions would eventually catch on, and may randomly return the favor with dodgy goods (or perhaps in hegemony's case a stealth raid!). perhaps allow the player to do the smuggling them self for potential greater impact at the cost of that stocks value (lost regardless) huge relationship loss (but not enough to reliably cause flat out war by itself) and perhaps something special if enough of these end up on the black market, like maybe the damage gets spread out to other factions resulting in a mess...perhaps ai flavored mess if it was ai cores! (pirate:you sure this thing is safe? beta core's: kill all organics! player:((storypoint used)) yeah it's perfectly fine~ you'd have an attitude too if you were stuck in a small cell all day! besides they could be referring to vegetables.) the idea also of infecting the hegmony with rouge ai cores is funny too.
