I'd just say this, a particular bounty hunters could be on passable terms with any Junker. Maybe he never takes bounties on Junkers and respects their turf. That's not unbalancing the game.
But bounty hunters would be the equivalent of a mixed marriage in the South in the fifties--not a great match and not much incentive to pursue it.
And the "we're building two battleships" thing keeps coming up from nowhere but we aren't. We have approached another faction to defend us if we start getting smothered--THEY have battleships.
I've been flying the .:j:. thing awhile and has anyone seen me trying to take over and destabilize Sirius and Junkers? Usually I am in an armored transport or collector.
I'm not trying to "redefine all Junkers"--just playing mine and in tandem with a few others who like the concepts.