spoiler ahead, fellow neocronians. here is how to deal with LE droners in important places like MC5, regants, caves. and to some extent this also applies to LEd whatsoevers "stealing" your favourite loot.
so what happens if you gather a small team of hardened fighters plus one or two supporters and enter the area of interest, only to find an LE droner in a corner, emptying his (or her) drones' ammo capacity onto your favourite NPC victims? shoot first, ask question later, thats whats happening. but, but, how can you hurt and kill someone wearing an LE (to some of us the root of all evil)? You cant. And you dont even need to.
All you need to do is concentrate your firepower on all the innocent little mobs around you, and soon you'll notice that your team is killing faster than that single LE guy. Even mobs he started firing at first will be finished by your team pretty much faster, so you will gain the lootright on all and everything. And all the precious loot. And Mr. LE droner guy will get nothing. The magic word here is "competition", and if you do a better job than the competition, you will profit.
But, but, whats up when theres 5 LE droners instead of one? Then you'll meet the dark side of competition, you just have been outperformed and need to go somewhere else, do something else. Luckily theres so much to do in Neocron.
Have a happy and productive year, everyone!