I've been thinking about how explorers might be able to make a living in DU.  There is only one game I know of that has it right and that is Elite Dangerous.  Explorers fly out into the unknown scanning stars and planets with specialised scanning equipment.  When they come back to civilisation they sell the data to NPC empires for a price.  This works well for two reasons: E:D is huge so there is always something new to find; NPC empires always want to buy the data.   First I have to make a fe