How a player faction excludes a characteristic of the NPC faction

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What would happen if a Zoner shot down a Samura Transport bound for Crete? Kusari would complain that the Zoners were shooting their transports supplying pirates? Oh how outstanding would that be to watch on the news board.

What message would that send to the other Houses? That Kusari is supporting Corsairs by defending transports that openly feed a group of pirates that constantly pillage and raid Bretonia and Rheinland.

No, I don't think Kusari would respond to Zoners shooting Samura transports bound for Crete at all. It would be far too detrimental to their status as a lawful house to openly support the supply of Corsairs.

Kusari would be more likely to distance themselves from Samura transports travelling to Crete.

In addition I believe that Zoner bases as distribution platforms and local resuppliers are much more interesting to companies like Samura than any powerful Pirate Empire. Samura would rather ask the Zoners if they can help to reach the Corsairs better, or ask for advice where to make the best profits in the Edge Worlds, because Zoners as neutral and civilian party with no intentions to amass power are more reliable concerning business than any pirate can be in the long run. Still, the issue would not occur if the setting would be played accordingly, because the Zoners would act as intermediaries for Samura and the Corsairs alike. Samura cannot afford to endanger their own public image.