Smuggler Archive

So I went to my house and there was an NPC smuggler standing around out side a little ways off. I decide to go try and talk to him... Bad idea. He ends up atacking me.

Now I'm a novice smuggler, I even use the title above my head, yet I can't talk to a smuggler npc becuase one of my factions (probably thug) is to low.

Now I could go around shooting towns people but the mission terminals don't really give us that option plus the loot stinks.

This led me to the idea that we need smuggler faction. Some thing to help counteract that thug function that would cause any contact we wish to talk to to shoot us once we got in range.

Any other thoughts or stories relating to this topic?