kzt wrote:So you want to put out of business your low cost local providers, who, btw, VOTE and pay taxes, and instead go to higher cost remote providers who are supposed to be sending a freighter full of raw material every day on a 60 day trip.
As a mental exercise, what happens if they stop sending freighters? How long does it take for you to realize something very bad has happened to organization you are counting on to supply ALL the resources for your entire economy?
Now what do you do? BTW, keep in mind that if you send a warship to investigate it gets treated as a pirate.
Sure, the Core Worlds will invest in resource extraction expansion. They'll do that after the expand their expansion of finished goods production. Those Verge systems will need investment in resource extraction system regardless. The protectorates already have resource extraction geared for export. It will take time for the new economic relationships to stabilize and the spike in demand from the wars to be satisfied.