The Yukai Han

[Drake]

Well, a Kruger miner disappears in the Elbich Field. No one to blame it on? No proof of anything happened? Some random guy shows up with a ship full of Silver, but no one is sure how he got it? Sounds like a miner who got a little jealous, to me. But, then again, who says Kruger can't pick on the little guy in their Omega-7 field? No one would know...

Same could be said for a Universal trader hauling boron and disappearing in route to Bretonia, and his cargo happening to end up on an freelancer trade vessel. No one would know (though they would, since no one actually dies...).

The major mining companies are well known to be ruthless and horrible, horrible people. It would be expected for them to muscle out any competitors who tried moving in on their turf. An indie miner (not IMG), however, has no 'turf', they are by definition moving in on someone else's.

The way the IDs are written assumes that miners are ruthless, while traders are peaceful (at least towards anyone not a pirate). Why? It's the specific mining corporations which are ruthless. Sounds like the 'demanding ore' should be a 'perk' of using a specific corporate mining ID, rather than a feature of all miners. Even the IMG demanding ore is a little off, in my opinion, except maybe when dealing with BMM.

Edit: Also, where does it say generic miners can't land on mining corporation bases?