Safety Override MK I is worth 750,000 solars
Crematorium MK I is worth 500,000 solars
Higher marks are worth more and are more useful.
You can find the rare modules from lowest mission power of 60000 and up. Higher missions usually means higher module marks.
The "Pirate's nest" reward is 2x times the mission power, while the reward of "Pirate Hijacker" is also 2x times the mission power.
"Pirate's nest" reward reward is split like this:
- Solars (20%)
- Station cargo loot
- Installed station modules / wreckage loot
- Rare Modules
"Pirate Hijacker" reward is 100% Solars
"Pirate's nest" could be as profitable as "Pirate Hijacker" with the right tactic. You should try a loot attack first, to get rid of guard ships and loot the station cargo, then use a smaller ship to finish off the station. Carriers will help a lot there... A big ship carrying a smaller ship should do it nicely. The medicines / fuel can be sold on other SoS missions. It is extremely important to have enough cargo bay to loot all the goodies from the pirate station. Reaching full cargo bay capacity can waste a lot of potential loot...
The reward for "Pirate's nest" may seem lower, but when you add all the looted minerals / cargo value you will see it adds up to 1.8x the mission rating. The remaining 0.2x is used towards looting rare modules.
I agree it's a bit more work for "Pirate's nest" mission, but you do have the chance to loot rare and expensive modules, many times the mission's pay... like a 10,000,000 solars module from a 500,000 rating mission.
The pay is a joke though... $200k with a 2mil power ship and a couple thousand fuel/medicines... Plus a little like 100 somewhat ok mats
Glancing at the logs, that mission power rating was 733,608, so you should get around 733,608*1.8*0.2 = 264,098 solars reward and rest in minerals / loot.
The approximate mission rating can be viewed when you encounter the station / guards, it's the power of all the pirate ships + station. The merchant does not know the exact power of the pirate force, as he states in the mission talk.