Do the Junkers still have immunity from random BH attacks?

[Tenacity]

In the end, a Junker is all about profit. If we pick a side in any conflict, we cant profit from it and actually lose profit due to losses from enemy forces. Rather than joining a conflict, we sit to the side and profit from the engagements of those who are involved.

With the harvesters, we have a mutually beneficial arrangement. They dont eat us and turn us into harvey-paste, and they protect our bases - in exchange we let them dock at those bases, and we provide repairs to their ships (junkers are mechanical geniuses, which makes us very valuable as repair technicians to the harvesters).

However, just because that arrangement exists doesnt mean we go about flaunting it. Any junker stating that he has relations with the harvesters is very likely going to be captured and interrogated (and subsequently killed) by any house police or military that hear him say such. The harvesters are a threat to all of humanity (junkers aside) because they feed off of both people and the ships they fly.

And, as RParade said, we're better off keeping our mouths shut about it and using that 'power' in secret. We dont run around new york saying "I've got ties with the outcasts, if you stop my cardi-smugglin I'll have them invade and blow up manhattan!" - the outcasts are not going to listen to a lunatic like that, and saying such will very likely get that junker destroyed outright by the navy/police/LSF for threatening the security of liberty.

Likewise, the same goes for our 'alliance' with corsairs. We do work for them, but that doesnt mean they're going to send their fleet after anyone that messes with us - we're expendable in that manner, and they have other issues to deal with (the outcast/corsair war in particular).

If you want to get revenge as a junker, do it in secret - either hire an unlawful bounty hunter or send a tip to a corsair/outcast/harvester that you'd like a certain someone killed in exchange for some credits or favors. Dont go running around using your 'influence' with powerful factions as a shield to protect you from the lawfuls.

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