Story Line Event

[Lusitano]

What i see really good in this is that about 1/3 of the powertraders with IC ID will be gone ... at least for a while!!!

[Fifty.]

Pretty good news. Turns out I'm not selling my Bergelmir :crazy:

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[Benjamin]

Are interspace pulling their entire business out of Rheinland, or pulling their ships out? Wrt interspace weakening itself, this makes a huge difference.

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[Reverend Del]

Only their shipping, if they pulled everything then it would have a significant impact on their profit line, this is merely a blip in their already mighty financial empire.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.

[Ceoran]

Though I don't think Solar could maintain the trade lane systems of a House in the opposite corner of Sirius with the same efficiency as Ageira could do. I mean, if Solar took the job, they would have to travel through Taus, Kusari and Sigmas, so I think that them being able to maintain the lanes of bordering systems such as Omega 7 (or even Dresden and München) would be way too idyllic, and maybe in said systems, the lanes could suffer the aforementioned decay.

The question is whether they need it to work perfectly or if it suffices to have it work most of the time

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Go play the game, within the given limitations. That is how role play games are played. Not by trying to work around those limitations or whining about them.

[Ryummel]

The question is whether they need it to work perfectly or if it suffices to have it work most of the time

If it's working 'most of them time', then they're risking to have convoys traffic stuck at one spot unable to delivery the goods demanded by millions and millions of people populating the planets and industries forced to stop their activity due to the lack of raw/processed materials. I guess they can simply prioritize the perfect quality of lane systems connecting the planets first or something, unless they prefer pulling ration cards and taking a two-days break every week in the military vehicles factories.

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[Klaus Lange]

Well... there -is- another party in Sirius now that does lane tech. And is quite hostile to Liberty to boot... But what will happen? I have no idea, since I have no clue as to how the factions involved will act. From my standpoint as dev and story lead, I'm only looking to assign reasonable consequences to various actions.

If Ageira/DSE ceases lane maintenance the network will slowly start to decay. It'll take a while before stuff starts fritzing out, especially gates. Rheinland has some time there, although it will end up making travel inconvenient in the region within a few weeks. If they contract another party (I actually worked out a hypothetical on this scenario) it'll threaten the Liberty monopoly on lane tech, which is one of it's major exports. With one of it's economic backbones threatened, Liberty would have little choice other then to intervene militarily with all it's might - Rheinland is already struggling. But at the same time, Gallia is looming on the western horizon, so Liberty is in a timecrunch before finding itself on a war on two fronts. Rheinland isn't the dimmest bulb either, they'd know this and try to delay Liberty...

Something along these lines is a possible scenario for the 4.87 storyline development for the region.

Well, I thought about not one, but 3 factions who have more, or less, but technical know-how about lanes and gates. Gallia, Junkers (not sure Gallic or Sirian), and Hackers.

[takemori]

Having the hackers work for Rheinland would be entertaining. I would love to see that scenario develop.

[mwerte]

The hackers (from my understanding) can break into Ageria's systems, but they can't develop, build, or maintain their own.

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[Friday]

On the mentions of Solar doing lane work in Rheinland, I'm not in Solar or part of the Solar leadership, but as a fellow Gallic HC member, I don't think there would be much support amongst the factions for Solar to get involved. Not only is there the logistical problem of getting to Rheinland to do all this, but there are also three positive things happening right now that we don't want to interfere with;

First, instability in the Rheinland market creates instability in the rest of Sirius, roleplay-wise. Gallia is a closed economy just starting to open up to Kusarians. Our economy is shielded from any sort of shockwave coming from Rheinland, as our economy isn't dependent on outside supplies like the Sirian houses are. As such, it'd cause chaos amongst our enemies while we sit back and enjoy our stable market. Furthermore, instability in Sirius could lead to Kusari purchasing more goods from us instead of the other houses, and by doing so, putting more money and resources in our own economy at the expense of the others.

Second, this also hurts Interspace, and through interspace, the other Liberty companies. Hurting Liberty is good. If Solar goes and does all the maintenance, Interspace might back down, restoring confidence in Rheinland and reopening dealings between them and IC, since IC will be much cheaper than Solar, considering circumstances and logistics.

Third, propaganda. This kind of event only reinforces the crown's claim to its citizens that Sirius is filled with nothing but infighting, greedy, and self-serving people, and that Gallia is tasked by God/Morals/Whatever to cleanse Sirius of these people and put them under the benevolent leadership of His Majesty the King. Gallia wants as many of these events to happen as humanly possible.

Breaking the Liberty monopoly on Gates and Tradelanes in Sirius will hurt Liberty far, far more...

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