' Wrote:2) "IC will stop financing Rheinland lanes and gates maintentace costs!"
Rheinland already offered Ageira IC shipping laws and more, what will cause increased profits. Ageira like profits.
btw. in Sirius are also Junkers, Hackers and Gallia. They know something about lanes and gates too.
4) "IC will economicaly ruin Rheinland! Give us our cash back, whole cash now!"
There's already precedent in real world, Iceland 2008. But I'm not going to discuss RL politics here, I'm just saying there's precedent.
I just wanted to respond to these two points in your post, as these two are the main ones.
Interspace Commerce funds EVERYONE'S gate and lane construction/maintenance. Probably only Liberty right now could afford to bankroll itself in this regard. Needless to say, the actual maintenance is done by DSE, who get their parts from Ageira. Ageira does NOT go out and build gates and lanes, this is what DSE does, and ONLY DSE. Ageira doesn't have the necessary shipping or infrastructure in place to construct gates and lanes, or maintain them. They also do not trust anyone with their technology. Even DSE does not know how it really works, and they are given one time use keys when constructing lanes and gates. When parts break down, they don't actually fix individual parts, they just replace the entire areas or rings of a trade lane with new parts. This keeps Ageira both rolling in credits and their technological superiority secure.
At best, Ageira have a few specialist maintenance teams for fixing problems which may compromise their classified gate/lane tech. Thus, if Interspace pulled its financial services, the gate/lane network would unlikely to be able to be maintained, as Rheinland doesn't have the necessary credits to immediately pay the incredibly heightened costs that DSE would demand for working in uninsured conditions.
Interspace Commerce insures ALL lawful cargo in Sirius, irrespective of your House. If they were to pull this from Rheinland for example, then nobody else in Sirius, least of all Rheinland, could afford to insure Rheinland's shipping and losses would be catastrophic for Rheinland businesses. Not to mention that hardly anyone will buy goods that are uninsured, particularly with the dangers of space travel in the Freelancer universe. Think of them like the galaxy's banking system, which is effectively what they are.
This isn't against or for Rheinland in any way, I was merely pointing out the primary "power" that Interspace Commerce has at its disposal.
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