(01-02-2013, 10:57 PM)Anaximander Wrote: If you (and by extension Kusari Government) want to be taken seriously, I think this heavily armed and aggressive base in orbit of NT, shooting all the traders bringing goods to and from Kusari is counter-productive. It doesn't seem like something any non-infected or sane politician would ever approve of. The people of New Tokyo must be upset - an increase in the cost of food on the most densely populated Kusari world is something that could set off revolts, especially when there's a brand new regime installed. New Tokyo is effectively getting embargoed by Hogosha, that's just nuts.
Who would saw off the branch they are sitting on?
Your idea has bad roots. Here is list of IDs which are rephacked to be hostile with Hogosha (based on list that Aeternus Doleo posted some time ago):
As you can see, there is not any important foreign trader corporation other than Bretonian (even Gateway is not there). So if somebody is shooted by the base, he has old rep and he just has to fix it (bribes should be for example on Yokohama, Shinjuku, Junyo or Osaka). InRP there is no "aggressive base in orbit of NT, shooting all the traders bringing goods to and from Kusari" so no harm to prices on New Tokyo at all. Maybe GMG can be problem but I´m not sure if internal Kusari H-fuel supplies are not made by Kishiro.