' Wrote:The other day i was on a Kusari Police station in Hokkaido and actually listened to some of the rumors that go around in the bar. Now i don't have the screenshot but i would bet my right eye that there is a rumor that basicly tells you about how Kishiro will soon discover Jump Gate technology entirely. And so breaking Liberty's dominance of the Jump Gate construction industry through DSE.
Now, if this is true, i think Kusari would have their own funky design and twist they'd put on their gates. I'd always thought that human jump gates had been Libertonianised. It's an interesting idea if you ask me, and i'd like to see it go places.
Well, sir, I think you're mistaken in the plot here. Let me through out some knowledge, here.
Ever wonder how the Chugoku Jump Gate was going to be built on the Chugoku side? Or, really, why even bother making a Jump Gate to such a resourceless, useless system as Chugoku?
Well, there was no plan, ever. It was a farce. The entire Chugoku Jump Gate project was simply a ploy by Samura to put their grubby hands on the Jump Gate technology Liberty had coveted for so long.
The plot is so simple when I read it in rumors I wondered why it wasn't more apparent to everyone. You see, Samura knew that development in the northern part of Hokkaido and Chugoku was infeasible. There was no way they could ever permanently operate there. There was only so much money, and far too many Blood Dragons. Interspace Commerce also knew this. They refused to insure the Jump Gate construction for Deep Space Engineering. Despite this, though, Deep Space signed contracts to build the gate complex. But, how long would they tolerate the constant attacks? They would have to leave eventually. There is no way that they could operate in Chugoku. The entire project was doomed from its infancy, afterall. But what would they leave in Hokkaido when they eventually left? A fully functional, one-sided Jump Gate prototype which Samura could study, understand, and duplicate.
Simple, isn't it?
I know Kishiro comes to mind when "New and exciting technology" comes up in a conversation, but, this time, Samura gets the ticket. At least, so says the rumors on the Matsumoto and Gate Construction Site. If rumors explicitly say Kishiro, well, then, my apologies, but, Samura is the current runner following Liberty's significantly larger footsteps.
Also, Discovery is missing a lot of corporate expansion, such as Gateway's expansion of Sheffield, on which it holds a large office (Whether it expands on site or outside, beyond me), ALG's buyout of Kruger, ALG's construction of the next Rheinland Battleship, and many other things I'm certainly missing. Luckily we have an opportunity now to expand these things, now. How we do it, though, is the question. Hopefully, within reasonable RP bounds that we can all agree with, as Samura did with Kishiro.
[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.
It is perhaps more fitting to suggest that Samura is more likely to take bigger risks to retain its market share.
War is a risk, Samura has big holdings in the Taus and Hokkaido. If they can prevail there will be big dividends from it.
No risk, no reward.
Kishiro seems to be more of a 'steady as she goes' approach, appearing to be a more reliable partner to the GMG.
Personally, I would like to see the Kusari 'turf' more clearly defined. Sure Samura should sell Osaka to Kishiro - but then Kishiro should sell Nago Station in Tau-29 to Samura.
This would start a trend of putting Samura 'turf' in 'west' Kusari, and Kishiro holding in 'east' Kusari - with New Tokyo being the overlap...
If Kusari do make a jump gate, it needs to have two of those fins that they're so fond of placed on the sides in front of the portal itself which open out like double doors, sort of like current jump gates have the spokes which open out like a flower.
' Wrote:Personally, I would like to see the Kusari 'turf' more clearly defined. Sure Samura should sell Osaka to Kishiro - but then Kishiro should sell Nago Station in Tau-29 to Samura.
This would start a trend of putting Samura 'turf' in 'west' Kusari, and Kishiro holding in 'east' Kusari - with New Tokyo being the overlap...
You forgot Samura's presence in Sigma-17, Planet Kurile.
Anyways, I like the fact that Nago and Osaka are "isolated". It shows that the two companies are really competing instead of just partitioning themselves off in different areas.
' Wrote:Personally, I would like to see the Kusari 'turf' more clearly defined. Sure Samura should sell Osaka to Kishiro - but then Kishiro should sell Nago Station in Tau-29 to Samura.
This would start a trend of putting Samura 'turf' in 'west' Kusari, and Kishiro holding in 'east' Kusari - with New Tokyo being the overlap...
This is an idea that I have been a big proponent of.
One last little note, I dont think Kishiro would ever risk pissing off the Liberty corporations by having anything to do with developing tradelane and jumpgate technology. If they did, IC would surely pull its investment and insurance from the Okinawa project, as well as other Libertionian companies stopping trade with Kishiro. The thing that has allowed Kishiro to gain market share has been there dealings with the GMG and Liberty, if they had anything to do with stealing JG technology, they would be doomed.
Samura on the other hand, has every reason to attempt something like that. They dont do a huge business with Liberty, preferring to trade internally, and with Rhienaland (who would be very happy to get access to that same JG technology) would have much less to lose in doing it, and would probably be protected to an extent by the Kusari government. Add that to that, the fact that much of Samuras goals involve pushing Liberty out of the Kusari markets, and it seems like the most rational thing Samura could do.
Edit: Hawkings, I have always seen Kurile to be so far out, and with such a specific, in-rp purpose, that its not the same, it is in the sigmas so far that it is beyond GMG territory, it is a deep space installation, not really Kusari territory except that Samura owns it.
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