While this all sounds great, I'd like to remind you that Gateway is NOT a typical Bertonian company;
For one, we are not liked by the BIG bertonian companies, like BMM and Bowex and we don't like them back... Bowex has made sure Gateway doesn't get to work for the Bertonian government their partnership with BMM has meant if your a big company in Bertonia you pretty much have to use Bowex for shipping your goods or you lose the friendship (and cheap metals) of BMM
Second we are very close allies of IMG, and handle most,if not all, of their shipping in the tau systems. Also recently Gateway formed an external arm, GEO, which is working with IND to work on inter-house trading agreements and to tap new growth markets all over sirius, so wouldn't these agreements be seen as valid? It's ok and understandable if it's not but still would be good to know the real reasons.
So I'm a bit confused as to why Gateway shipping would be attacked outright? Again don't get me wrong... while this sounds great and would probably work great (on paper at least) I don't think you thought about the RP of Gateway.
You can take the above statement RP or OOC I would pretty much say the same thing from both perspectives.
This next part is OOC for sure tho;
OOC:
One of the reasons Gateway was chosen as our npc corp was because they are a small company that doesn't go with the status-co, who have links to independent companies like IMG (and now on the player end with us being allies of IND another "independent" company). We done this hoping to stay neutral in the current NPC war (at least with GEO anyway), but if you can explain why we can't stay neutral I don't mind RPing not being allowed in Kursai space, or even having to RP confrontations, smuggling, running away crying to the media about heavy handed military patrols ect
I just think it doesn't fit the NPC alignment of Gateway allows you to openly attack Gateway shipping IF your trying to stay friendly with IMG... just my thoughts tho:)