Hi, been looking for a way to pay back for the heads up on the Corellian Chests, and might have found one.
On Hoth, there is an Imperial mission called "The Killing Blow" from Commander Tritan
The Killing Blow
This starts right as the first mission on Hoth with:
The Last Warm Breath
This will lead you to Commander Tritan who gives you a new chain.
The mission is the 3rd mission in a chain, and a follow on from a choice of two missions depending on light or dark choices:
1: Tactical Reprisals
2A: Forcing Thier Hand - Retrieval
OR
2B: Forcing Thier Hand - Destruction
3: The Killing Blow
This mission is located here:
Inside are a fair few Talz NPC's all hostile (level 37-41), and you have to disarm various bombs in the area as the first few objectives.
Next to the 2nd bomb in the North of the room, there is a storage container, and behind this is a Security Chest:
The chest appears to contain around 2500-4800 credits, a medpac or two, and a level 35 item (I've had blues and greens so far, but would not surprise me if there is a chance of a purple).
Now, right now, your probably thinking, big deal, it's a chest, what's the respawn timer? Well it takes about 20 minutes, and that's not very efficient.
The trick to this, is the whole area is a mini instance, as in you pass through one of those green "doors" to enter the area. How does this benefit us? Well it's simple, run outside the area, bring up your quest log, and choose "reset". Your quest starts over and all mobs in the area respawn, as well as the chest...
So far I have looted and reset this about 15 times now, and the chest is always waiting for me when I get there. I am only the same level as the mobs, so killing through them takes me about 5 minutes. For doing a run through and vanish at the chest, 3 mins is easily doable) it would be faster if not for the CD), from looting chest > leave > reset > to next loot. That's 20 times an hour, and say we get the minimum amount from the chest each time 2500x20=50k an hour. (In reality I get 4k more than I get anything below 3.5k). This is also discounting any credits made from selling the items in the chest.
This isn't as efficient as it could be due to my level, but I would imagine a level 50 could get through to the chest very quickly (assuming they have not done the quest beforehand of course). And since we reset the quest and force respawn the chest, this can be done as fast as you are willing to work and so the returns could be much higher.
I would also be guessing that there are other quest area's similar to this one that contain security chests, that may be even closer to the entrance of an area. Also because the area's are the same every time, I'm sure this could certainly become a more automated procedure should someone be interested.
Hopefully this will be useful to someone and enjoy!