The Anarchists [A]

[AeternusDoleo]

How much do you think Crete depends on the Zoners alone for their food? 70%? 80%? 95%? More like 20%, at the upper limit. That's a sizable gap to fill, but it's not unbridgable with the support of a corporation or two.

I am referring to the only source material I have available for this: The Discovery Wiki. If you can point me to references on how the Sairs manage to procure another stable supply train of food, I'd love to see it. On my Benitez character I only ever see the occasional Samura transport pop by to trade food for artefacts, I've -never- seen other traders come by.

Source: http://discoveryfl.com/wiki/index.php?titl...rsairBanner.jpg

Today the Corsairs, while not as desperate as in previous ages, are still dangerously short of food, which necessitates regular shipments of smuggled food from the Houses to Crete. Their smuggling of Artifacts is a major source of income, a large portion of which is used to buy resources and food shipments from the Zoners and from the various Houses and factions of Sirius. Regardless of these (frequently inadequate) supplies the Corsairs are still using piracy and various shady business dealings to fulfil the majority of their demand for supplies and cash.

The economy of the Corsairs is based around smuggling and piracy. They are heavily involved in the transport of Alien Artifacts to third-party distributors such as the Junkers and Hogosha, who then transport the goods to dealers on House planets and bases. The profit received from this trade goes a long way towards paying for the regular shipments of food and other supplies that the Corsairs must receive from the Zoners. Acquisition of cargo from traders in and between Bretonia and Rheinland at gunpoint has kept the Corsair nation thriving for generations and with their increased dependence upon the Zoners, and the development of short range balance transfers, Corsairs are now often spotted demanding Sirius credits from unlucky victims. These extra credits are then often used to pay for supply shipments, construction of new warships, or simply the personal gain of a family or individual.

This is why I felt that the Corsairs were rather dependant on the Zoner biodomes and Zoner markets for procuring food. The [A] faction has been directly responsible for cutting off this, according to the wiki, -vital- supply to the Corsair empire.

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