Grey Market

The Grey Market, also known as Free Trade, is the most widespread form of mercantile in the solar system, consisting of pirated or otherwise illegally obtained licenses for schematics. Unlike the Black Market, which deals in the trade of illegal goods and commodities, Grey Market trade deals in goods and commodities that are otherwise legal to sell, buy, and own, but the manner in which they are obtained, bought, or sold is illegal. Pirated schematics are the most valuable commodities in Wild Space, and are the only real way that free trade and colonization has flourished without corporate involvement.