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[Akumabito]

The junker congress may have fallen apart but many of it's proponents are still around, and we do not approve of rogue warships destroying our hard-earned status in Sirius.

Hard earned status? Do you even know what a junker is? Junkers have no status, and some in the Junkers are smart enough to realize that their recent foray into cartamine and slave smuggling is going to destroy their neutrality with the lawfuls sooner or later, and the csv and collecter aren't going to save them at that point, are they?

Junkers are not fighters, we're salvagers and business dealers. We have no use for warships, as none of our (few) enemies are able to procure warships themselves. The xenos and hogosha are stuck in fighters and bombers, and we use the same (with the addition of transports and freighters).

The Hogosha are not necessarily stuck in fighters, and with the farmers alliance getting cruisers the Hogosha are not far behind, but there are far greater threats than the Hogosha. Junker bases have up to now been sitting ducks, sitting right next to strong house military forces, as there was no need for a strong defense, but with the recent increase in unlawful activities (including supplying the outcasts and who knows who else with materials to build their capital ships in return for carti smuggling) the Junkers can't afford to be weak anymore. Some Junkers are smart enough to realize that.

Every ship flown by a junker was either built by his own hands, built by the hands of other junkers in puerto rico, or salvaged from the scrap fields near the systems we operate in. Every ship flown by a junker is adapted for hauling large amounts of cargo - scrap or otherwise - and most warships are not capable of such. Every ship flown by a junker is modified with the necessary equipment to recover valuable salvage from scrap fields, warships are incapable of receiving such modifications.

Warships are ideal for getting scrap, and for smuggling as they have fairly significant cargo carrying capabilities and much better survivability in hostile space than a collector.

Other than the increased armor and power, there is no difference in the ability of a warship's tractor beam over a non warship.

If a bunch of rogue cruiser captains wants to get together and party, they need to do it under another faction's name. Junkers rely on our nuetrality to as many factions as possible in order to conduct our business, and having fleets of 'most wanted' criminal and defected capital ships flying under our banner would bring loads of unwanted attention.

No more attention that carty smuggling does for the lawfuls, or that supplying the outcasts does.

The thing that saves the Junkers isn't that they are neutral, it's that they are individual. With no strong central body and no real structure one Junker smuggler doesn't affect the next junkers rep. That lack of overall accountability isn't changed in this scenario in any way, shape or form.

This group of ships, some rouge, some outcast, some cobbled together from the remains of fleet battles has a place in the Junkers precisely because they are the ideal Junkers, resourceful, individual, able to find a way to survive.

They are much more a Junker than the Junker Congress, a group that tried to suppress the Individual nature of the Junker, and apparently is still trying.