Newcomer / Intro Trading imperial slaves - a bug or a feature

Hi there,
I've found an interesting thing when flew to a system controlled by Empire from Federation where I started. There're also missions where they ask you to bring couple of imperial slaves for a good reward and it would be ok if it wouldn't be possible to buy them legally right there on the station market. So the mission takes about half a minute and is renewed every 1-2 hours so one can just sit in hangar being offline, log in once in 2 hours, take mission, buy slaves, give slaves, get 20-30k Cr pure profit and log off.
Moreover the price for imperial slaves fluctuates insanely - you can buy them for 10500 Cr, wait for about half an hour and sell them right there for 16000 Cr.
Or also if price remains the same (10.5k) you can just fill up your cargo racks with these imperial slaves and go to a neighbor empire system which is just 4LY away and sell them there for 15-16k Cr having pure profit 180k Cr in just half an hour with Cobra having 32 cargo slots.
Is it as it's planned or is it some kind of a bug?
 
Slaves are volatile merchandise. They wear out so fast. Last pat may have 'd the markets a bit. Dems will fix it shortly if so. Enjoy the credits!
 
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