' Wrote:It is a mutually beneficial relationship Jien, by making GMG Operations easier, it means lower price and more H-Fuel for Kusari and its corporations to make money off of (Samura selling to the Libertonians) if they did not have the lanes, the prices would spike for both Kusari's and Liberty's government.
But this is all a Biased Kruger players view
First off, Basically the argument is by making the GMG stronger, you make everyone stronger by lowering the price of H-fuel. That is flawed in some very critical ways. To start, Kishiro ships H-fuel for the GMG, not Kusari. Second, Kusari has its own homegrown H-fuel ambitions, so lowering the price of H-fuel across the board actually hurts the development of Samuras H-fuel mining operations in Hokkaido. Now, you might say, but Kishiro ships H-fuel for the GMG, dont you want them to do well? Yes, I do, but lower H-fuel prices, equal lower profits for Kishiro, since they make less of off shipping it. The only people who benefit from lower H-fuel prices are A) the GMG, as they are trying to maintain their monopoly on the H-fuel market, thus making it harder for Samura in Hokkaido is worth it, and it allows them to further saturate the market with their product, making other people reluctant to develop their own fuel sources, and making them more dependent on the GMG< and making the GMG more powerful. B) The Consumer who gets a lower price on H-fuel. C) Liberty, who needs it for their war effort. None of those options are particularly good for Kusari. Aside from that, the Okinawa system provides a very close haven for enemies of the Throne, where Kusari would have no power. There is no house anywhere would accept that kind of threat, let alone, provide cover, security, prisoner labor and permission for someone to do it. Nor is their any house that would handicap a domestic industry for the benefit of one outside it's control. The Kusari government would be doing everything it could to push the Hokkaido developments, and hamper the Okinawa developments, not let a JG and Tradelane be put in for easy access, and allow for all the foreign companies involved to use Kusari space as a back door to the system.
