That would probably be my take on it. A mini-house of sorts, with obvious ties to Kusari. All the same, my only point was that Sigma-13 is GMG space, which as we can see here, is completely feasible in relation to the situation.
But dude! Kusari could totally keel teh GMG! srsly!
I will try to shed light on these few points I found being discussed and which are rather incorrect to be honest. Here it is:
1. The discussion about "LOLOLOL KNF COULD KILL GMG WITH THEIR NAVY" is completely ridiculous and absurd. Nothing of the sort will ever happen, because like it or not GMG and Kusari rely on each other, thus it is totally pointless to discuss about who has a bigger military potential.
The KNF allow the GMG to police their own space, as well as the eastern part of Honshu - this puts far less strain on the KNF and they can send more forces to the war with Bretonia, ergo allowing them to have the upper hand in the war.
2. Deuterium is heavy water. Most earth type planets in Sirius are fairly abundant in it, but the Zoners simply decided to sell their supply. H-Fuel is actually contains Deuterium itself (check the commodity infocard if you don't believe me), so you can hardly say the Zoners are making "competition" for the GMG by selling it.
3. The GMG are *not* the sole provider of all fuels in Sirius. They are the provider of H-Fuel, which is a very potent mixture of different particles that can be used for a plethora of applications. Quoted from the infocard:
Quote:A mix of elemental hydrogen, deuterium (H2), and helium-3 (HE3), H-fuel can also be mixed with oxygen in fuel cells to provide water (via "cracking") and electricity for small ships, space stations, and other facilities.
The GMG have a stranglehold on the fuel market due to H-Fuel's potency and cost/effectiveness ratio. That doesn't necessarily mean everyone else is at the GMG's mercy, but rather that they have to spend considerably more on ship fuel, thus making their space journeys more expensive.
Rheinland's Mannheim station is making H-Fuel in small amounts, not nearly enough for the Rheinland fleet though - and it also brings a loss to the Rheinland economy each year, the Rheinland government is frankly looking to close it.
Samura is trying to get into the market by synthesising their own H-Fuel in Hokkaido, but the lackluster amounts of usable gas (likely Helium-3) as well as constant Blood Dragon raids (financed by none other than GMG) make that enterprise cost more than it is worth.
The rest of the houses mostly buy from Kishiro directly or by proxy. The other factions either raid the fuel shipments, buy it from the Junkers or use other fuel sources (like MOX, or simply pure Hydrogen).
4. There is no rumour in the game that mentioned Rheinland boarding Naha during the 80 Years War. A few parts of my article on the GMG are unfortunately based on logical speculation due to Microsoft's oversights in faction history.
At any rate, my vision of the 80 Years War was based on a successful Rheinland blitzkrieg across Sigma-13, in which they indeed managed to take the Gas Miner Naha, but were unable to operate it due to GMG sabotage and lack of their own experts. The GMG forces would use the Sigma-19 and Honshu jump holes to conduct raids into the depths of Sigma-13, fighting a guerilla "hit-and-run" war for the majority of the conflict, with a few large offensives and indecisive battles spread inbetween. Rheinland's own efforts to build a gas miner (there should be a wreckage of a Kruger station in the nebula in S-13) would be wracked by GMG raiding parties. Eventually in the fall of 668 AS the GMG would launch another large offensive into the cloud, knowing that the Rheinland Military has been stretched to it's limits. Naha would likely be taken back during then, and the rest of the RM fleet would converge at the New Berlin jump hole in the Yanagi nebula only to be annihilated and beaten to New Berlin by the GMG. This would mark the end of the shooting war, the peace treaty would be signed a few weeks later.
That I believe corrects the uninformed points in this thread. As to GMG being a sovereign house? No, it most certainly is not. That does not mean however that it does not own territory, because it does.
The East India Trading company is a great analogy. This kind of view of GMG should have been obvious from the start. GMG is an independant organization. It doesn't answer to and follow Kusari's word of law or any of the four house's word of law it does respect it's Kusari brethren and vice-versa. We aren't talking a full house here, simply an independant sovereign organization, this is not a very difficult concept to understand. It doesn't take much brain power to do a little reading in-game, it does however take a lot of boring flying around though. So I have pulled together every scrap of info I can get involving GMG sovereignty and relations to Kusari, how the war started and was won including GMG's experience in warfare and tactics, why Samura isn't expected to be competition and how the aftermath of the war still keeps Rheinland from being competition even 200yrs after the war.
I was informed by a moderator that there is a limit of SS's per post, understandable. I'll organize them by category in packages no bigger than 10 and post 6 seperate posts with them. It should also be good read, especially for the faction they refer to, as there will be ton of info that is great for RP.
So I hope you enjoy the reading and find it informative. There are a couple bits of info I didn't know before and I was glad I read and put this together.
GMG is a sovereign organization:
News from many bases
Aomari infocard
GMG rumour
Sig-13 infocard
From Naha
From KSP who acknowledges that they aren't privvy to all GMG info (doesn't look like Kusari control)
From Kruger, who knew the Sigs were already GMG claimed
Rheinland didn't think GMG was sovereign....mistake.
From Kruger, they know that Helgoland being in Sigma13 doesn't make it Rheinlands
A Kusarian who notes GMG is different, also points out Rheinland's h-fuel problem
"The Eighty" how it started, who was involved and how they were involved:
Kruger stuck with impure gas
Kruger had nowhere to expand
The ship wreck that became the catalyst
Tensions rise
Daumann quickly pushed for the war to make profits
KNF secretly backed GMG in war, secret is key not a bunch of warships coming in to fight side by side
Kruger abandoned their holding early and quickly
This I believe is the former Kruger station (Kruger's wrecked depot in southern oxygen fields
Yanagi Debris Field infocard 1
Yanagi Debris Field infocard 2
I couldn't find the info of Naha being taken over, I'll take this moment to say that I have seen it before.
It is true that Rheinland had captured Naha at one point in time in "The Eighty" but GMG didn't lose half it's
forces from that single battle, GMG lost half it's forces during the whole war, Rheinland lost ALL it's forces.
Continued on next post.
"The Eighty" how it started, who was involved and how they were involved cont.:
GMG knew what tactics to use
GMG defeats RM
A very decisive win
RM almost had survivors....but no
I'll re-post this in-case any missed it
Helgoland Infocard
Some immediate aftermath here is the SS of GMG losing half through entire war not one battle
ALG has contract to clean (also notice the Liberty bit heheh, news to me)
Junkers actually work with ALG but have reasons for being slow
Despite being slow it's temporary
And yes, once the scrap is gone ALG will leave, Junkers should to as they reason for being there is over and a new miner
will replace that area of space (speculation on my part but very reasonable, although ALG and Junker resistance would make
for continued RP in the area)
Rheinland economy was devastated, they aren't competitors, even 200 yrs after war.
New Berlin infocard
Empress's poor decision, 20/20 hindsight
RM's morale gone after loss
RM took on huge debts by borrowing from Liberty
RM limping now
DHC loses contract to build RM ships
Rheinland inflation is still out of control
Kruger never recovered
Kruger need to merge with ALG to survive
But still tries to maintain operations for the publics sake
To be cont....
Rheinland economy was devastated continued.
Planet Holstein was halted and now only marginally habitated by DHC
RM abondoned staging ground
GMG made raids in Frankfurt to ensure Kruger didn't recover
RM was to broke to do anything about it
RepEx did rebuild their depot and continues it's operations
Here are a few SS's of GMG's expertise on the battlefield and their knowledge of battlefield
The KNF were incapable of stopping the Wilde, not GMG. In our home we scattered them when KNF couldn't
GMG knows it's space well enough that it know the JH's (concrete evidence as oppsed to the speculation of
"well by now our lawfuls should know")
and our experience in warfare even allows us to train
Yes as the victor of two major confrontations, GMG pilots are highly trained, highly skilled, and highly organized in the field of battle
Samura's decline and Kishiro's rise, Samura isn't ready to be a competitor for GMG
GMG switched partners and it has made an impact on the corporations in Kusari.
Samura hasn't received control of Hokkaido from Kusari officials yet, GMG ain't going to let it happen
Samura isn't done developing their stuff in Hokkaido yet
Samura is declining and loses construction market to Kishiro
Samura unsuccessfull in defending agains BD
Samura employees looking for work with Kishiro
Samura losing KNF contract to build fleet
why? because Samura's models are obsolete.
Also KNF has come to prefer Kishiro innovation over the unchanging Samura
So KNF started working with Kishiro on Nansei
So that KNF can get something special from Kishiro
More on Kishiro rising above Samura, not only with new work with KNF but also with increased business with GMG
to be cont.....
Kishiro rising higher to maybe supercede Samura
of course GMG/Kishiro's joint efforts for Sig19
GMG's needs has provided Kishiro with a 24/7 operations boost
If the current trend continues Kishiro will replace Samura as the dominant Kusari Corporation
Quote:The Hogosha run their Artifacts across Honshu to Tokyo from Sigma-19. We have begged them to tell us the location of their Jump Hole so that we can stop the Outcast scourge, but they will not cooperate.
Well that was a very interesting read indeed.
You have collected a vast amount of evidence and posted it here for everyone to see.
I would of preferred the images came without the personal comments explaining what each was as it could point a biased view, better to let the images speak for themselves.
It was especially interesting that you put the Kishiro V's Samura ones there as I was hoping others would see what I have been seeing when I said that Samura is loosing ground to Kishiro all the time.
But that is for another topic I guess, anyway nice work there.
(Sorry to bump, for some reason, it made me break it up when I added sources)
"We have been contracted by the Rheinland and Kusari governments to remove the debris remaining from the 80-Years War battlefields. Much of if poses hazards to shipping in the area. The GMG has allowed the Helgoland Scrap Metal shredding and sorting facility to be based in the Yanagi Pocket. " (ALG, Helgoland)
"The foolish Rheinland people tried to wrestle the control of H-Fuel production from the GMG. They could never do so; even today if you want H-Fuel you must travel to the Border Worlds and do business with Kusari companies. Samura Fuel comes from Naha, so you can purchase from the source if you like. " (Samura, Mainz, Keep in mind that's vanilla)
"Go to Ogashawa. There is the main source of Kishiro H-Fuel. You will find the best prices at the source. Every station needs H-Fuel, including this one." (Kishiro, Mainz)
"One day the Rheinland Navy will be as powerful as it once was. Our day of reckoning is only separated from us by an expanse of time. Every day that passes, the expanse gets shorter. Rheinland will rise from the ashes like a phoenix from the flames. Then the GMG will pay -- and so will Kusari and the rest of Sirius." (Daumann, Holstein)
"Life must go on, even after defeat. No one really cared about the GMG once the rebellion started. It could have been quite horrible but the life’s blood of Rheinland -- her companies -- were not dissolved. It would have been chaos if that had happened. Who knows who would be running things now. " (Daumann, Holstein)
"The GMG who come into this system are scoundrels. If they wanted Frankfurt, they could have taken it. If they come here now with their guns armed, then they are just looking to fight for no reason." (Daumann, Holstein)
"Just between you and me, we intend to abandon the cargo shipping business within a few years. The competition is fierce, and the criminal element is making it more costly to insure our cargo. Look at IC and Ageira. They make incredible profits off of technology monopolies and their licensing. That is the future for Kishiro." (Kishiro)