Have YOU ever done the Diamond - Niobium run?

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I've done this run quite a few times, but to Kyushu not NT. I really don't see anything wrong with it. People say it's bad for RP, but I'd say there is more RP happenings on that run than any other! Not to mention that it's the main source of credits for the gaggle who always hang around the NB>S13 JH. It's no as if it's an easy route either, I could spend ages running stuff through lanes and basically avoiding everyone, but I rather enjoy banter with the invariable groups of pirates you find in each system and they add an element of danger to a quick profit.

It's quick, but it's risky... just the job for Han Solo types who like to stay off the lanes.

The part that's bad for RP is the Chugoku part.

People know Chugoku exists, but even Samura is taking a massive gamble in constructing the gate to it. The only people who know what's in Chugoku are the GMG, the BD, and possibly the GC. That's it. Not 'everyone and their dog'. If people did know about that jumphole, the KNF would have trashed the BD long ago; they can. There is absolutely no way that the BD could survive that, and it's only by ruthlessly murdering anyone who comes near the JH in Hokkaido that they've kept the KNF from plowing in through there. Your trader DOES NOT KNOW ABOUT THAT JUMPHOLE. Even if they know about the S-13 to Chugoku one for god knows why... if the KNF haven't been able to find it, why should some trader who shouldn't do anything a tenth as risky (remember, in RP, a trader entering Chugoku is literally tantamount to suicide) be able to find it? Much less hundreds of traders?

The NB to Sigma-13 hole is fine. It's a risk, with the Wilde and all, but it isn't guaranteed death. But nobody other than the BD, GMG, and GC know that the Blood Dragons are in Chugoku, and even Samura is only suspicious. That's why it's ooRP.

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