>>96481438
>pimped-out Cruiser and half a dozen supporting escort and trade craft. That's it.
Dude that's close to a million people as vassals. Each starship has the ability to wreck a city from orbit.
Rogue Traders extract wealth from worlds outside the Imperium's control via mining operations, enslavement of alien or human life, and stealing from one another. Persecution of RTs outside the Imperium is so minimal it rounds down to zero, and even within its borders there's very little anyone can do about them. A single world cannot foreclose a warrant of trade. Only powerful Inquisitors can investigate and judge Rogue Traders suspected of alien or daemonic taint, anything else falls outside their jurisdiction... and mostly their interests.
>That's also wrong, since learning magic is instinctual in the first place. Unless we're talking sorcery.
See pic related.