Oh wow you moved fast. Well I was in the middle of verifiying all details of your proposal on Skype. Had brought in GMG council, had began collecting infocards from in-game and began perusing previous RP done on the forums and I was getting around to asking the developer of Okinawa in any finer points I may be missing. Your scheme to open Okinawa for trade on Kusari side seems a bit shocking in it's forum presentation and I noticed you already got the attention of the system developer.
Yeah the detail that gets everyone is that GMG defaulted against something in some way. If Kusari did actually have the ability to stop H-fuel from leaving GMG hands do you think that the combined might of Samura and Kruger will be able to fill that massively huge gap? Good luck on convincing more then a minority on that one. Fuel is making it out there and we aren't even making it our costs, the customers are stuck dealing with higher prices from this. Also there's 3 setups, I believe, with factions getting fuel out well enough (one of which came into being before this when Kusari blockaded Liberty and we needed to replace Kishiro with someone quick) using the JH system alone and about 3 more setups and offensives sitting on hold being discussed about the blockade so the JGs can be regularly used again (in RP). Dab made reference to the same I did in Skype that %5 of Okinawa doesn't translate into ownership. That %5 is indefenite and is supposed to give more back IC in the long run then what IC gave to it by a hundred fold and more. It was an investment, a successful one (if you are still friends with GMG that is). One last point, Fujisawa in Okinawa is the home of GMG's paramilitary and also Okinawa houses the Kiretsu and the Blood Dragons. You'll find no other systems aside from our guard system in a more firm GMG military control then Okinawa. The price any military venture to seize Okinawa would be crippling even if successful. Crippling enough to not make it worth it, hence the reasone why GMG got IC financing to develop it so quickly and firmly before Okinawa became public knowledge. Not because we were poor, because we were in a hurry to get past the vulnerable stages of out industrial and military development of that system.
Edit add: Casero, it's safe to assume people are gonna still need water just as they are gonna need the fuel. GMG doesn't stop selling fuel because of the risk of being annexed by the combined might of all 4 houses looms in that one. Too many bases and planets hold millions and millions of people that don't naturally produce water, oxygen and food. H-fuel using ships bring those to them. It's fallicy to think that GMG would ever conceive of giving up on making money from the people in this situation by stopping and ending all fuel business.