[Official Event] A Cultural Exchange - Congested Transition

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The Hood is gone, Aland is gone, that's a pretty significant change. And if dealing with the Mollys is enough to get outlawed from Bretonia both they and the Junkers would have been outlawed long ago. This feels like a ridiculous double standard.

No, you're misunderstanding me. What I mean is that factions like Zoners, Junkers and the IMG make sure to skirt the lines and rub the right people's backs to stay on working terms with "everyone". The Junkers are known to be shady and probably viewed with distrust, but they're usually not hauling contraband and are useful enough to have around. The same is true for the IMG, who keep up a "veneer of legality" (if those words mean anything) in all the Houses to not be flat-out barred, while still sympathizing with, and aiding, local factions like the Mollys and Red Hessians. When the Mollys do a raid on New London's shipping traffic, however, the IMG do not join in. They're smarter than that.

To me, with all that taken into account, it makes perfect sense that the IMG would pretend to be helping lawful Bretonia every couple trips while, in truth, mostly shifting Molly gold stockpiles. If only because it gives them some plausible deniability when they do get caught trying to slip through the embargo, for example. Undying loyalty to one side and just straight-up doing nothing but supporting the local terrorists freedom fighters seems much more out of character for the IMG than playing both sides and helping the Mollys without outing themselves.

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