Piracy Guide
Location: any agricultural anarchy system in boom
Cargo target: Low Temperature Diamonds (no manifest scanner or wake scanner required)
Equip your Ship with Good shields, a Frameshift interdictor a hatch breaker limpet controller and as many collector limpet controllers that you can fit, and at least 128T cargo Bay. Fill your cargo hold 70% full with limpets.
Best systems to pirate in are Agriculture systems in boom, Even better if they are Anarchy systems.
Enter system, stay in supercruise
be on the lookout for T-6, T-7, T-9, Keelback, Asp, diamondbacks, Pythons or Kraits (ive found all these ships carrying Low temp diamonds) Scan them in super-cruise and look at their equipment (sub-targets), if you see a mining laser They have Low Temp Diamonds! If after you've given it a couple minutes and you're not seeing any targets meeting the criteria, just slow and drop out of super cruise and retry. try avoiding ships that have point defence as its much easier to pirate a ship which does not have point defence.
Once you find a Target interdict them,and IMMEDIATELY fire on the prey once, to get them to turn aggro. Otherwise they will hyper-jump on you regardless of mass or FSD cool down.
Don't bother trying to take out power plant to shut the ship down, even if you manage they're a bitch to try to stop dead.
Important, put full pips to shields and throttle to 0 speed. Do not move, your victim will also stop about 500m away from you and will just fire on you, then fire your hatch breaker limpet, hatch break and collect with limpets, while shield tanking, if they have point defense your hatch breaker limpet will be destroyed, fire 2 or three in quick succession one will eventually attach whilst his point defense reloads.
Once the hatch breaker limpet attaches, fire off as many collector limpets as you can, they will go fetch the dropped cargo, when the hatch breaker limpet falls away fire another one. keep doing this until no cargo is left or your cargo hold is full of diamonds.
I run quite a few collectors as I hate seeing my precious diamonds die in the middle of space while waiting to be collected. Use A rated hatch breakers as the minimum cargo released is higher. I use B rated collectors because the max distance is better. Its important that you stay still during the entire theft, A: to keep your victim in once place and B: because your limpeds are retards and will explode with your precious cargo if you are moving to fast.
Once you have run out of limpets and collected all the diamonds, sell your loot to Marcy Ring black market, you will get 70000 - 117750 per ton of diamonds so 128T of cargo can net you 9M to 15M credits , I can easily find 128T of diamonds in about 30 minutes that's approx 20M /hour
by no means a gold rush, but one of the most fun ways to earn semi decent credits.