Galileo Mining Rights

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The way I see it, there is no actual thing as an "independent House contractor". They are all sub-contractors under the relevant mega-corp, and anyone not willing to play that game is basically made unable to operate in the House.

However, with the legal proceedings looking to draw out, both sides basically agreed informally that some profits are better than no profits. This is where the independent contractors come in. Of course, both Liberty and Kusari believed they would be able to win the proxy war while the legal war grinds on, by using their own shells or convincing the indies. But they don't want to give access to people that are hard to control (e.g. a single Hege), so the rule is that they must be registered somewhere. That allows both sides to put pressure on the independent company.

Soon after this was agreed, Samura decided to just say "fuck them rules" and started mining anyway (or maybe they used a very obvious shell). With that, DSE and Kishiro just shrugged and went into it themselves. But the independent contractor clause is still there from the earlier draft, and people like Bristol are making use of it to get a piece of the pie.