In return, Liberty has offered specialty modular Avionics and Interior components for Bretonia's own efforts to modernize its fleet, driven by fears of a resurgent Gallia. To source these components, the Liberty Navy has prepared a shortlist of approved defense contractors who are authorized to participate in the project.
Where exactly is this paragraph (or somewhere else I might have missed it) says that these approved defense contractors cannot play the role of fences if they so chose (if they don't want that, they can simply set the buy price at 1$, no)?
The entire event is designed to only allow approved contractors to supply the parts. If someone wanted their appropriately-IFF'd base to be able to take part in the event, then they merely needed to make a single inRP post about it, which would have been accepted. This is not much to ask, and plenty of people did do exactly that. Not to mention the extremely ooRP manner in which these bases were being supplied with the parts second hand, that being using an ALG Barge to buy parts from Kishiro and Samura POBs and sell them to a DSE POB. I cannot imagine a single scenario where DSE would be buying those parts directly from their two largest competitors, particularly with the brewing war with Kusari that this entire event is about.
Oh, on the contrary! Liberty would be more than happy to get all the valuables from Kusari. Of anything, KNF would be the ones stopping the export of valuable shipyard components to their adversaries.
And I'm so full of people name-calling what they dont like as "metagaming" and "ooRP". ALG has modular stations in Galileo. They know what's going on and they have access to both houses (at least for now). They are also not exactly the law abiding type (when Barrier tried to make SEO as a fully lawful branch of ALG, he was shutdown). As such, ALG would have both the justification and the inRP inclination of doing deals that would be otherwise rejected by Samura/Kishiro and DSE (as in, they would not directly buy from one another).
"To expect the event to allow people to supply the approved bases from unapproved bases is, frankly, stupid."
What's stupid in your opinion is profitable is someone else's. Adjust your text accordingly, talk to the PoB owners so that they adjust the prices in such a way this is not profitable and problem solved. Instead let's just glance over the fact that this was never a consideration, let's throw loaded words at what's going on and we're right and they are wrong. What can I say? Congrats!
