As for cargo....

I've had luck recently. I came across one of those huge cargo trains in rhineland territory. They were hauling a ton of diamonds somewhere. Well, I trailed after them and sure enough, hessians disrupted the trade lane for me along the way. This worked out, I got up along side one of the transports, engine killed and turned to face them, hit one cargo pod thingy with my weapons at close range (I have a whole lot of really powerful weaps on my eagle) and BAM, the cargo pod popped off like an over ripe apple and spilled it's contents into space like a pinata. It turned the convoy members red, but, they were busy with the hessians. grabbed the diamonds and ran, didn't have to kill anyone. It was great. free diamonds and I took them to new tokyo for a pretty good price. fun times.

hmm, lanehacking, is this shooting the trade lane to disrupt the flowing traffic or is lane hacking someing entirly different that the pirates do to the lanes?