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[Albert Profrock]

None of the House navies like *any* of the pirates or criminals which infest their house or even any other house, with a few exceptions of course (GC being friendly with BAF and Gaians friendly with KNF for example). Otherwise, they all just consider them a pest to be controlled or gotten rid of, but Liberty hardly goes out of its way to crack down on Unioners because they don't generally bother Liberty. Sure, they might raid the occasional Liberty shipping vessel, but they usually tend to hit Rheinland shipping almost exclusively, especially since Interspace Commerce lends covert information and funding to the Unioner movement, which would usually tend to discourage an organisation from damaging relations with that corporation.

As you have said, they usually tend to hit Rheinland. Still doesn't mean they can't hit Liberty rarely. And I haven't read anything about the bolded part anywhere. Is this taken from a reliable source, rumor or just written up? If its from a rumor, there are lots of rumors not reflecting the pure truth. Besides, as I have mentioned, official faction policies may stray from the policies of core affliations at distinct stages, especially because there are serious scenario changes being applied by the creators of the Sirius history.

Taken from the political history of Independent Worlds,

The adjacent Bering system continued to flourish, until the Rheinland crisis following the popular revolution. By 720, crime on the Bering trade-lanes was out of control, and IC was writing off huge losses. Texas was approaching the saturation point, and the Rheinlanders were ready to talk. Liberty graciously agreed to fund the construction of a new jump-gate path and trade lane route through Hudson, if Rheinland would agree to the eventual annexation of the space by the Liberty government. Eventually, manufacturing would be removed from Liberty space and relocated to the planet. It would become the Sirius sector's dominant manufacturing center, using its proximity to Rheinland space to produce products of all sorts, competitive with Kusari, with no fixed labor costs outside of food and basic shelter for the workers.

Why would IC fund Unioners at all if they caused the IC write off huge losses? Doesn't sound right to me.

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