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[jammi]

Basing yourself on vanila rumors that hokkaido is indefensible... well for me it's just lame.
For this reason we have there Battleship, good ammount of patrols + that's why Samura uses fleet of mobile

There's no other lore to go off than those 'lame' vanilla rumours, unfortunately. You're claiming that the situation has changed, but there's nothing to justify this statement - in the game, or on the forums. Just to note, that battleship was there during vanilla. Here is a selection of quotes that demonstrate the sitaution in Hokkadio with the battleship present, doing its thing, launching patrols. If you want to see the whole quotes instead of the lines I'm snipping out to be concise, check here.

Chugoku Gate Construction Site (Hokkadio side):

• Gennai Kugo, DSE:
  
• "The Samura folks made a replacement MOX run yesterday. Last one got wasted in the cloud. We're all short timers up here - either short time to the grave, or to paradise on the beaches of Curacao."
  Bill Baldwin, DSE:
  
• "Bunch of craziness this [jump gate] project is. Lots of people killed and money spent for nothing."
  
• "IC won't insure this project; that should tell you something."
  Stephen Nichols, DSE:
  
• "The Dragons probably destroy half of our construction supplies getting here. Then they do their daily target practice on the storage depots and get most of the rest."
  Tony Bratton, DSE:
  
• I've been hearing rumours that they might shut this thing down pretty soon. Kusari government's tired of the cost overruns. I can tell you, we're tired of watching our buddies get atomized while they're out there welding. This ain't no place for civilians like us, even on hazard pay."
  

Sapporo Station

• Kenji Ono, Samura:
  
• "We have begun gas mining operations here, but they are not up to full production - too many attacks by Golden Chrysanthemums and Blood Dragons. The Matsumoto should be stationed here, not up at the Chugoku Gate Site."
  
• "They always need Pharmacuticals on the Battleship - radiation poisoning and battle wounds. It is a nasty little war we have going on here."
  Yoko Murakami, KSP:
  
• "My unit was on a deep reconnaissance patrol in the Shiden Cloud, looking for GC. We were engaged in battle with the GC for 15 minutes, and then they vanished. Our unit lost Takana-san and Ogawa-san.
  

Battleship Matsumoto:

• Hideaki Ishikawa, KNF:
  
• "I've heard that we will abandon this area of Hokkadio soon. Tokyo wants us to build a defensive line on the other side of the Kyofu Gap and leave it at that. All the gas Samura wants is in the southern end of the system anyway."
  

Aniu Depot:

• Kyoko Yamada, Blood Dragons:
  
• Many Naval Forces fights have been lost recently in skirmishes with the Blood Dragons. Due to the low visibility and difficult conditions in the cloud, some weapons may still remain on the ships in the more remote locations."
  

Some of the rumour links were broken, so there could be more stuff. There's other bits and pieces that could have been linked. They were a little irrelevant though, so I chose not to. The overall impression I'm getting is that it was considered to be an insurgency war (as referenced by a number of lawful NPCs), the GMG's guerrilla tactics were working (as referenced by a Blood Dragon and Samura NPC) and the government were considering abandoning the Gate Project and falling back (as referenced by a DSE, Samura and KNF NPC).

Hokkadio really, really doesn't sound like a secure system, especially considering nothing has changed from its vanilla state there. I would be interested in reading through your sources that are to the contrary though.

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