Had a longish session last night. I did some exploring and ended up in and around the Rheinland systems.
I bumped into a few familiar faces in my journey (players) more than once.
At one stage I have a hold full of Pirate pods to sell and apparently not near a police base to to cash them in.
SO I bump into (not literally!) one of the players (sorry can't remember your name) and get some great advice to goto Hamburg and goto a planet off the beaten track a bit which has a police base.
After several protracted fights through the asteroid field getting there I make about 3 mill profit!
So for the last hour or so I spent my time taking missions on the said base at about 100k per mission, plus nearly a few 100k in profits from selling pods of newly captured pirates.
A real moneyspinner!