Blockades, Corsairs, Industrial Saboteurs, Cartels

[Fatsack]

You guys have built a very interesting and dynamic economy system.  It would be great if there were more options on how to manipulate and exploit it.  For instance,

1. Blockades - on wormhole sectors, gate sectors or factory sectors, effectively cutting them out of the trade network, and the shifts in supply/demand this would lead to that could be exploited by the player.  This would hurt the players standing with the faction, or perhaps bribe one faction to do it to another faction.
2. Corsairs -  Some way for the player to hire mercenaries or pirates to attack specific targets like a major factory that supplies the surrounding region, thus reducing the supply, which could be exploited by the player, while not destroying the players reputation with that faction.  You could assign your own or your alliance ships to the pirates to use or something like that to increase likelihood of success.
3. Industrial Saboteurs - Hire pirates or mercenaries or buy computer viruses or some other form of industrial sabotage from outlaw outposts to transfer to a factory or other station to temporarily halt production, reduce the supply or demand for a trade good, destroy stored cargo, steal cargo or credits, or create a demand for specific trade goods, on a station, with a percent chance of being found out.
4. Cartels -  Secret alliances with certain factions, traders or just certain stations/factories within factions, to create monopolies on specific trade goods.  Maybe add in 'merchant' factions that operate certain trade routes, that you can collude with.  Create blacklists to boycott trade from certain suppliers, or deals to supply parts under market value, depending on relations with the merchant factions, in exchange for completing missions or attacking another faction or something.

All of these things could be targeted toward the player by hostile factions as well.  Like in Civilization 6, where the better a nation is doing, the more likely the other nations are to team up against it.