' Wrote:Interspace Commerce funds EVERYONE'S gate and lane construction/maintenance.
Actualy, they dont. Now, in a roundabout way by loaning the Rheinland government money to pay its debts, they do. But as a fact of the matter, and one of the reaosn why rheinland has their massive debts, is the fact that both rheinland and kusari pay for their own lane maintenence.
Here is the infocard to support my stattment.
Quote:After the Rheinland-Kusari Embargo of 521, IC lost millions of credits as both Houses nationalized their Trade Lanes. The massive debts that those Houses had incurred were wiped away, and the Trade Lanes became theirs.
As a matter of fact, according to this infocard, Rheinland dosnt have any debt to IC.
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Oh well, a bit too late for that.
Quote:This system was the reason that IC became an insurer and not a lender. It was the loans that Rheinland and Kusari took from IC to finance these Border World Jump Gates and Trade Lanes that bankrupted the two houses. They defaulted on their loans to IC and embargoed Liberty to make their point. IC had to swallow the loss.
And finaly,
Quote:Thoroughly angry with having to wipe countless billions of credits of debt away almost overnight, after Kusari and Rheinland both nationalised their trade lanes and jump gates, Interspace Commerce has never been satisfied with the two hundred years of tolls it got in exchange, and it is for this chief reason that a good deal of animosity towards Rheinland and Kusari exists even today. As a result, Interspace Commerce often allows ships from the Bundschuh, Red Hessians and even the Unioners to dock and purchase supplies, and even going so far as to donate money to their causes or share information of cargo shipments with them.
This has angered the Rheinland government considerably, although as yet it has been completely impossible to prove. However, the Rheinland Military has recently stationed the Battleship Strausberg outside the station to keep an eye on Interspace's activities.
