Thread:CrimsonFire735/@comment-25890179-20170514212937/@comment-25890179-20170901222354

@Gorzill - For Khers, sure I don't care what happens to Shuvath. For the electrogas thing, don't overthink it. If I didn't think it would break some random wiki rule, I would have just said that Fenric and his guys cook Meth.

@Zilla - I'm not trying to mess with your story just so you know. I'm trying to keep mine afloat. So, in answer:

1 - The Northern Clans are loyal, but they're also scared, so Kirta couldn't ever turn them against him.

2 - I'm all for additional layers to the story. Fenric's gang has stepped on a lot of toes through the years, but think of him like the Joker and his gang, which some parts of them are based on. There are many other players in the drug game, but Fenric and his men come off as the most ruthless, the most outlandish, and the most adaptable. With no backers, mentors, or partners, they've had to build their own networks, each of which would be hard for any other syndicate to crack or destroy.

3 - Nothing to add here

4 - The Vermillions have some infrastructure, nothing that would cripple them if lost. Also, many battles would be fought between infantry, but few with armored vehicles. The Vermillions simply wouldn't engage, leaving Kirta able to take land more easily, but unable to hold it or stomp out the Vermillions. The most you'd see for fighting the tanks and droids would be a Lagorthene or something using a bazooka on a convoy, not much else. The Vermillions, like you said, have been fighting battles throughout Mendel space, the Red Veil, and Eastern Mirus, and they know how to outlast a foe with better tech. Remember: the Mendel's advanced tech needs fuel, repairs, mods to work in more extreme conditions. The tribal/guerrilla/clan war tactics and weapons the Vermillions use need none of that.

The same goes for hunting them down. With reluctance, I turn to real-life examples: the Viet Cong, Taliban/al-Qaeda. These were small, guerrilla/tribal armies, and yet they resisted and even defeated the U.S. army, supposedly the most advanced army in the world. Same comparison. Kirta will never stomp out the Vermillion Syndicate. They're too well dug-in, too crafty, too maneuverable. And besides, they're my main fiction, so they can't get wiped out yet.

On a storywriting note, when the time comes for Fenric to lose control of the planet, I'd like your permission for him and his gang to go to the north and keep up some sort of guerrilla war from literal underground hideouts and such. Otherwise I'd have to have them flee the planet, do this, do that, go on another four-story long sail-the-galaxy romp of bullshit, and probably lose the good development I've been putting on them. That okay? We figure out the details later.