Hogosha in NY

[worldstrider]

Iv never been a corsair but lets say for example that corsairs could sell goods in Manhatten and make lots of money from it. What your basicaly saying is that Corsairs should then be able to goto liberty as that would be there best route. Hogosha arn't a Traders group, there a Mafia style group that protects there own interests in Kusari, tax's or steals goods from forren transports, takes a cut from all sales in Kusari, etc, they don't wonder the universe trading wares(Mafia's have people to do that for them).

Hogosha are only "Semi-Lawful" inside of Kusari as they have the government under there finger. Outside of Kusari they would just be as much a pirate as any other and should be treated the same.

Outside of Kusari I think Hogosha re no different than Junkers or Smugglers. Watched with a wary eye but so long as they aren't caught or directly implicated, tolerated.

Most gaijin would have little knowledge of the difference between a Hogosha trading and a Kusari trading. Surely the government intelligence agencies would be aware of the Hogosha-Corsair relationship but no more aware of it than they are aware of the Junker-Outcast relationship.

Corsairs and Outcasts don't share this. They are a hostile group actively working against house governments with violence and mass exporting illegal goods on a huge level. Hogosha have a plausible means of role playing trade runs to Liberty--the Corsairs and Outcasts do not.

Hogosha military ships or piracy would be seen totally differently but trade is certainly possible. Unless Kusari becomes a house hostile to Liberty, the Hogosha are no more or less a threat than are Junkers in Liberty--unless their in-game behavior demonstrates otherwise.

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