In response to recent GMG - KNF diplomacy

[Friday]

So this whole annexation incident.

Is it just sabre-rattling to get mod changes made around Okinawa, or are there going to be continued tensions regarding this system?

I would really like to know if there are going to be more of these little surprises coming our way.

There seems to be a great deal of emphasis about the new Okinawa system. What is being completely overlooked is the far more dangerous issue of the sizeable Guild population on Honshu.

Guild Citizens are returning to Honshu and then commuting to work. Some Kusari citizens have a fear/mistrust of them - but most embrace their cousins as equals.

This planet-side populace has been giving the Guild a chance to breed and expand its numbers. There would also be significant family and cultural ties on Honshu. It is here on this planet that pro-Kusari and pro-GMG feelings would be at their highest.

If the Emperor is too heavy handed against the guild, it would cause unrest on Honshu. In times of war, the usual treatement of civilians from hostile parties is interment - or worse!

The Guild is often considered to be small and insignificant. In fact it would be like comparing the giant superpowers to a small handful of Gulf states.

This view of the Guild being solely a corporate entity seems to be coloured by a modern globalised perspective - in which there are States and Multinational Corporations. So from my perspective, Kusari is Kusari - and the Guild is the OPEC of Sirius.

Take off the modern glasses in which the Guild is viewed - and you will have a chance to see the history and culture that is in development here.

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