On 2/8/2016 12:53 PM, Bruce  Johnson wrote:
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>> On Feb 8, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> By mid-1107, the BOE had realized it was more cost effective to hire
>> small merc units to preemptively hunt down and "terminally dissuade IG
>> kinetic business practices.”
>
> So let me get this straight:
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> We’re talking about known terrorists aligned with a interstellar polity hostile to the Imperium, and criminal arson acts are being committed undermining the world economy and the 3I and local government leaves it to the business to hire "merc groups”?
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> Sounds much more like the bank manager in question is trying to eliminate competition for his money-laundering/insurance fraud sideline...
>

Yeah, because the 3I and the local government have their hands full with
the terrists' other ops - the ones that involve bombs planted in
/occupied/ buildings, etc - and their sponsors, the dirty Joes(tm).

As with interstellar trade, the big jobs are sewn up by the big boys,
and the PCs get what falls through the cracks.

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