' Wrote:Ok, this little discrepancy caught my eye from an otherwise good ID description. If the Core are not allowed into Alaska, then what are the BH destroyer patrols doing there? I don't see a good reason why the Core cannot be in Alaska.
The Guild is not a security threat to Liberty interests nor is it in the interests of the Guild to instigate a conflict with Liberty. In addition, both entities have the same common enemies: the Order and the Nomads.
It is because none of the Houses want Bounty Hunters in their space, period.
Or at the very least they expect BH to take the long way around via Unknown.
Bounty Hunters are being pushed out of the Core space towards the outer fringes.
The downside to this is as BH are pushed outward, the ability for the Houses to maintain a cooperative agreement weakens. Bounty Hunters will have to focus more on establishing resources and a base to work from for their own survival. This may be represented by a shift more towards being mercenaries then hired guns of the Houses. This may result in BH accepting contract hits against traders since a contract is a contract.
The result is that the Houses will get exactly what they want, no bounty hunter presence at all. This will allow the pirate factions more room for invasion into the House systems and a severe reduction in the economy of the houses due to lost trade.
