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Cargo's for being the only source of guns when Security is being too authoritarian to let people have fun. They're insurance but it requires a sufficiently staffed Cargo that doesn't get bullied into submission by Security, or worse, have Security sympathizers that will refuse to let the greyshirt have his crate of stun weapons that he paid for. The only problem is that you need emitters to start your journey and Security will probably use the emitters as an excuse to get you canned and demoted if they don't like you. Since you're likely the quartermaster you can probably give a generous bribe to an engineer to unlock the emitter crate.