Gas Miners Guild(GMG)

[Blodo]

It might have been a little bit of both. I can go ingame and try and find that rumour for you and take a screenshot.

EDIT: So the rumours are as follows:

Sometimes Samura can be so naive. They have never understood where the Blood Dragons get their financial support. We are the silent partner; we decided to aid the fledgling movement of the Blood Dragons to exact our revenge for centuries of theft and humiliation at the hands of Samura.

Kishiro has offered us superior gas miners that could double our profits. We will abandon Samura within the next year and deliver our Gas to Kishiro exclusively, ending our centuries long agreement with the old lady of Kusari.

The GMG has secretly trained many of the best pilots of the Blood Dragons. We gained much valuable tactical knowledge of how to fight in the clouds of the Crow Nebula during our long war with the Rheinlanders.

I have screenshots for these rumours. Doesn't sound to me like GMG was strongarmed into any sort of deal, more like a carefully planned and calculated act of revenge upon Samura while at the same time getting a far better deal than what Samura offered.