SCRA Politics - Proposing an idea

[Chico]

All these extra marital affairs really affect the ID cards...

Anyway, Hessians helping the RM?
I wouldn't think so. Maybe not attacking them but helping?
Why do we say the Liberty navy is stronger than the Rheinland one?
Rheinland military were winning against the Kusari military during the Nomad war. From an earlier post, I read the Kusari military is winning against the Bretonians. That makes Liberty, the top dog. They can stomp anyone?
I'm not a fan of that theory but....
The current trade embargo with Liberty and Rheinland is making the Unioners life particularly difficult. Few legitimate traders pass from one to the other now because of it.
Why would the Unioners automatically side with Rheinland?
Liberty might offer them Hamburg as a sweetner. How about offering the Bundschuh their own province of Frankfurt?
What about giving Dresden to the Hessians, along with Omega 11 for the mining rights?
Stuttgart for the farmers?
All of them paying a small tithe to the government?
These are just suggestions, possibilitys.
Remember, after a war with Rheinland, assuming Liberty wins (and it appears the consensus is exactly that) the Liberty navy is going to be in no fit state to hold off the Hessians. These guys have fought the Rheinland military to a standstill over Dresden and at the same time captured the corsair base in 47. All this and still taking the war to "Sirius' largest pirate group". These guys are combat vets and have been at war far longer than the Rheinland - Liberty tussle has been running.
Try to think about this from Libertys point of view.
"Huzzah, we captured New Berlin and we only lost 50% of our armed forces"!
Meanwhile, Corsairs are swarming in through Munich and Sigma 13. Bundschuh are creating merry hell for everyone. Unioners are sitting slap bang in the middle of the war zone. Hessians are massing. They have the ships and the technology and the money. What is Liberty going to do?
They're going to have to offer them huge concessions. Massive support for the Bundschuh to hold the corsairs out of Frankfurt. Give the Hessians free reign from Dresden down. Who knows?
They may even clandestinely support them. Lets be honest. Any help that they give the Hessians will be thrown at the corsairs who won't be able to fight for Munich/Frankfurt so effectively because of it.
Then, ban all imports from the Liberty conglomerate Synth Foods into Rheinland which effectively ends all LWB opposition. Finally, stomp on the Unioners who have no friends (except the SCRA) and are, with only one non gaurd base, possibly the weakest.
Everyone gains except Rheinland (and the Unioners).
If the rheinland pirate factions aid rheinland, what do they get?
A militarily weakened force who is now a massive economic titan. How long, with those kinds of resources do you think it would take to rebuild the military?
If it were the other way round, Rheinland would effectively control Liberty space in it's entirety. Rogues and Hackers are really, nothing more than highway men. Xenos are terrorist with limited power.
Yeah, sure you could wring agreements from them but how long would they last?
Remember too that it would be the same people in power. The same companies whispering into the same ears. The same corruption perpetrated by the same people.
They would effectively be supporting their enemy against someone who may be prepared to help them. Without that part of the RP, your never going to know I suppose.
Bear in mind also that even if Liberty did change it's mind at a later date, they would only hold real power in Hamburg and New Berlin. New Berlin would be surrounded on all sides bar one by hostiles if they 'changed their mind'.

Either way, I would imagine the SCRA would be cooling it's alliance with the Hessians pretty quickly.
Whatever happens, the Unioners are going to get stomped so that won't please them. The Bundschuh, I would have thought would have proved fertile ground for them as well being political disidents and outcasts.
If the Hessians side with Rheinland, the SCRA could be in trouble. If they side with Liberty, then they'll be in trouble for sure. Just a little later, thats all.

Thats my 2 bob.

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