Quote:3. Do/Should Liberty lawfuls know the location and existence of Buffalo base?
For Buffalo: Certainly Liberty lawfuls know about it existing.. somewhere. Even if they knew its exact location, it would be a pretty tough nut to crack regardless. The Badlands make the usage of Warships impossible, a huge squadron of snubs/bombers/GB would suffer a lot of casualties due to the Rogues home advantage (they know how to navigate the Badlands fairly well, it would seem). Also I think it wouldn't change a thing if they actually managed to destroy Buffalo. The Badlands are so large, the Rogues would easily find a new rock to carve some docking bays into, thus making the effort worth zero for lawfuls.
For other unlawful bases, it varies. The absolute vast majority of them are concealed by a nebula or asteroid field too and well hidden from the eyes of lawfuls. Some bases have to actually fight it out, change patrol plans, etc. to stay undiscovered though.
A few exceptions to this pattern exist in Gallia due to the Confederacy times:
Epernay, a Brigand base, in Champagne is openly known to the Gallic Navy due to the Confederacy and the Council's legalization.
Macon Base in Burgundy even changed hands from unlawfuls (Council) to lawfuls (GNI).
As for quasi-lawful bases, namely UC, Junker or Hogosha bases, I'd say that it varies from base to base and faction again.
Bases like Trafalgar, Rochester or Beaumont are surely known to lawfuls, but my head-canon is that Junkers are too sly to get this bases into serious trouble. You know, plant a distraction here, let some "Junker" get caught there, have some of your dear customers distract the Navy in some distance, all this stuff.
Hogosha bases, well, the Liner, Suzuka, Kabukicho are all known to lawfuls - who willingly turn a blind eye to activities around them or even traded bases with them. As for the base in the Sigmas, nope, hidden. Amusingly, the trade part means that the Hogosha know the exact location of the KOI base.
UC is interesting. Basically all their bases are hidden away from lawful eyes - yet they are quasi-lawfuls. Not even all of their bases serve as smuggling hubs though, it's amusing to see how they hid their presence, yet at one point even had actual political power.
The house Freeports are definitely known to Intel factions too, but my head-canon tells me they won't disturb their operations but actually utilize them for their own agenda. (You know, actual cool Intel secrecy thing nobody does!)
