Personally, I think the last thing Kusari needs is to go to war with Liberty. If anything, they should be improving their relations with Liberty and here's why:
I understand that the new Democratic Republic of Kusari (which I assume is not a constitutional monarchy) has relations with Gallia. However, Gallia destroyed Kusari's fleets. Kusari peoples, and especially their Naval Forces, should have a very hostile attitude towards the Gallic Royals even if they are friendly diplomatically. A real world example would be the United States and Saudi Arabia. Though they are allied, some Saudis (SOME, not all) have great distaste for the USA. In similar fashion, MANY Kusari citizens should have a great distaste for Gallia. Gallia destroyed Kusari's fleets when it invaded the Taus hence there are bound to be families who lost a Kusari service-member to the Gallic invasion, who would hate the Gallic Royal government.
Now I understand that the KNF was trapped behind enemy lines after the Gallic invasion and that Kusari is building a new KNF with the help of Rheinland (who is at war with Liberty). However, there are bound to be some KNF units left behind to defend Kusari from its terrorist organisation the BD and GC. Presumably after the KNF fleet in the Taus was destroyed/trapped, these units inside Kusari were promoted as new recruits came in to rebuilt the KNF. Either way, the KNF lost to the Gallics and IMO they should be very mad at them. While I can see the Democratic Republic of Kusari (DRK) as having decent relations with Gallia for the short term, I think sooner or later, once the military is rebuilt, Kusari should become hostile once again, or make hostile moves.
Now, I assume this thread is addressing the issue of the lack of people inside Kusari. As an economics student, I know you can't just expect people to be ideological RP'ers and just go to Kusari for the sake of RP. While a few do, its just that, a few. The best way to open up RP to Kusari is perhaps to create some very profitable trade routes/mining areas between Kusari and Liberty. I understand there are wonderful trade routes between Kusari and Gallia, but most players operate in Liberty, at least in house space/independent worlds region. Hence if you give those players a reason to travel to Kusari such as the profit off trade and mining, then activity increases in Kusari. Trade ships pass by, BD and GC pirate and terrorise, KNF/KSP get on to defend. And then Aoi Iseijin are revived!
Of course the drawbacks to this are that there will be quite a few lolwutters around, but that is the consequence of any activity in a house space, and a necessary consequence. Additionally, I am aware that a war with Liberty would create some activity in Kusari as KNF units attack Liberty units, funded through trade with Gallia, but it reduces the number of trade routes significantly. So in the end, there will be lots of KNF, a few BD/GC and thats it. No increase in trade. Thats why I'd rather have Kusari trading with Liberty and SLOWLY becoming anti-gallic then the opposite.
As for the hogosha RP, as far as I know, the Kusari people view the Hogosha as something that is simply there. There is no point liking or disliking the Hogosha as it simply exists. This is what I know about the Hogosha RP, please correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think the Kusari people would like or dislike or care about the Hogosha. I think this just needs to be considered before giving the Hogosha the right to pirate.
As for giving Kusari a war, I think a civil war is the way to go. I like the idea that in 4.87 the Kusari civil war starts and that by 4.88 it is full scale. That gives the exiles some time to rebuild their forces since the wiki page says they only have 25 cruisers left and a handful of marines. 4.87 could be used to give the Exiles some time to rebuild their forces and establish new, secret bases. It will also give Kusari a third dimension e.g. KNF/KSP/Kishiro vs Exiles/Samura/FA/Hogosha vs BD/GC
(Yes I'm aware Kishiro is secretly friendly to BD/GC but they currently control the government (or have great influence over it) and BD/GC are still devoted towards establishing their own governments.
Also, I haven't double checked my post so if I've made a grammatical mistake or my post is difficult to understand, sorry. I'll clarify if anyone asks me to.
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