Lock topic please. I give up,lolwuts win

[Ceoran]

Fair enough, but if they've lost their raison d'être why not just wipe them rather than create an odd situation that just doesn't fit in with current government and players that frequent Kusari?

I'd say if that had ever been considered before nailing down the coup, the whole revolution never would have happened. But as far as I've been told turning Kusari into a republic was part of that mysterious old masterplan of Igiss and just got followed through with.
What could help here is fixing the storyline of a whole house the same way several faction writeups have been wiped and redone. Wipe the .86 history in the next mod update and add a more logical one. But I guess I'm being too radical here.

With Samura out in the cold, I'm surprised that the Hogs don't keep more of a low profile, rather than aiming at high-profile New Tokyo terror.

The Hogos are more pro-Kishiro these days since they are the one "holding the power". Hence the request to soften the GMG-Hogosha-rephacks.
Whether that's actually beneficially for the faction or not is another issue. Personally I think Kishiro has the most awkward situation of all corporate factions. Can't help but have to imagine Gateway posing the Bretonian government with Molly support.

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