1) Rheinland isn't going to come out of this looking good.
2) IC has a whole really hasn't lost anything. The number of goods we were allowed to haul in that house was rather pathetic anyway, which is the real reason for all of this. By and large the indies Rheinland is mad at were hauling LEGAL CARGO that just wasn't one of the few things their players decided to let us haul.
3) This conflict was inevitable, based on the lore.