To those involved in the Freeport 1 Witch Hunt

[jammi]

soon, - cause it had been public, - rheinland had come up with a rather threatingly response .... and so doc holiday had decided to publicly cancel the deal -... but here it comes...

... he would have opened another communication.. where he contacted the deliverer personally - and encrypted. - and informed him that the deal was still on - and that he only pretended to cancel the deal!
lets then imagine that a whole lot of ... lets call them "jerks" for the sake of simplicity .. had showed up in baffin at pueblo bonito .... and started to talk a lot of tosh.

Rhienland would have dropped it at that, just as they would have in this case had things not been complicated. Unfortunately, Dakun chose to ban the director of the BDM from docking, stated that he would make Rhienland's life very difficult, and give Liberty a base from which to attack them from a third front. This was obviously posturing, but it was extremely poorly thought out posturing. You don't threaten a House if you want to resolve the situation.

Doc wouldn't be daft enough to attempt any of the stuff mentioned at the end of the above paragraph. So, no. This situation wouldn't have happened to Doc. I really doubt people metagaming that thread secretly arranging for the deal to go ahead really had anything to do with Rhienland's reaction.

As for the fleet actions that took place outside the station... Drama begets drama. As soon as people started fighting (for increasingly silly reasons) the drama hit a critical mass and started sucking more people in. Dakun really had little to do with the lead-up or conclusion of that fight.

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