MOD:WCU:Menesch - Revision history

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According to Righteous Fire, Menesch is a former governor in another sector, who came to Gemini and started dealing in illegal sales of arms and ships to the pirates and retros. We are also told that at some point he starts getting Kat salthis for the retros. An in one of his last few breths he confesses to have stolen your gun, and managed to obtain ships from the Kats in exchange for promising them that the gun would not end in Confed hands. The story is believable if we assume RF is taking place near the end of the war, in 2669, NOT 2670 of course, at the time when the kats are winning the war so they don't need the gun in order to win; --just preventing the Confeds getting it is enough for them.

Menesch seems like a guy of little imagination, though:

Even Corrupt Confeds were unhappy to see Retros getting ships. Pirates they didn't mind so much. After all, the work of fighting pirates fell mostly to the private sector, so the whole thing was like collecting extra taxes by a roundabout way. Taxation through piracy is a sort of progressive tax, in that most pirates would choose big biz transports with pricier stuff, rather than attack the little guy transporting iron. And they are more manageable: They have bases and leaders that can be negotiated with through mobs and other contacts. Retros, on the other hand, attack everybody, increase the money confeds must spend on militias, and are unmanageable. Plus they are hateful idiots.
And there's the fact of the well established, arms dealing mob boss: Roman Lynch. Lynch would complain to Confeds' selling ships to Menesch, and as the main customer of the Confeds in Decomissionings, he has clout.
We can therefore assume that the reason Menesch is so desperate to get ships from the kats, is that he's lost his Confed supply.
He again fails to see the possible consequences...

With a supply of kat ships, retros grow less reliant on talons and talon parts, whether new or used. This causes the second hand market prices for talons to plummet. That chokes Lynch, chokes the Confed Decommisioning suppliers, and, more importantly for Menesch, chokes off the funds feeding the Belisarius Group and Y-12. The latter authorize a large bounty on Menesch and Menesch is history.

Kroiz is a lot sharper than Menesch.

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   by the mistakes he makes in his dealings with the Retros, Kats and Confeds...
-  Even Corrupt Confeds were unhappy to see Retros getting ships. Pirates they didn't mind so much.
+  Even corrupt Confeds were unhappy to see Retros getting ships. Pirates they didn't mind so much.
   After all, the work of fighting pirates fell mostly to the private sector, so the whole thing was
   like collecting extra taxes via a roundabout way. Taxation through piracy is a sort of progressive

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   and started dealing in illegal sales of arms and  ships to the pirates and retros. We are also
   told that at some point he starts getting Kat salthis for the retros. An in one of his last few
-  breths he confesses to have stolen your gun, and managed to obtain ships from the Kats in exchange
+  breaths he confesses to have stolen your gun, and managed to obtain ships from the Kats in exchange
   for promising them that the gun would not end in Confed hands. The story is believable if we assume
   RF is taking place near the end of the war, in 2669, NOT 2670 of course, at the time when the kats
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   getting it is enough for them.
-  Menesch seems like a guy of little imagination, though:
+  Where was Menesch governor?
   Even Corrupt Confeds were unhappy to see Retros getting ships. Pirates they didn't mind so much.
   After all, the work of fighting pirates fell mostly to the private sector, so the whole thing was
-  like collecting extra taxes by a roundabout way. Taxation through piracy is a sort of progressive
+  like collecting extra taxes via a roundabout way. Taxation through piracy is a sort of progressive
   tax, in that most pirates would choose big biz transports with pricier stuff, rather than attack
   the little guy transporting iron. And they are more manageable: They have bases and leaders that
   can be negotiated with through mobs and other contacts. Retros, on the other hand, attack everybody,
-  increase the money confeds must spend on militias, and are unmanageable. Plus they are hateful idiots.
+  increase the money confeds must spend on militias, and are unmanageable.
   And there's the fact of the well established, arms dealing mob boss: Roman Lynch. Lynch would
-  complain to Confeds' selling ships to Menesch, and as  the main customer of the Confeds in
+  complain to Confeds' selling ships to Menesch, and as the main customer for the Confeds in
   Decomissionings, he has clout.
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   With a supply of kat ships, retros grow less reliant on talons and talon parts, whether new or used.
-  This causes the second hand market prices for talons to plummet. That chokes Lynch, chokes the Confed
+  This causes the second-hand market prices for talons to plummet. That chokes Lynch, chokes the Confed
   Decommisioning suppliers, and, more importantly for Menesch, chokes off the funds feeding the
-  Belisarius Group and Y-12. The latter authorize a large bounty on Menesch and Menesch is history.
+  Belisarius Group and Y-12. The latter authorize a large bounty on Menesch, and Menesch is history.
-  Kroiz is a lot sharper than Menesch.
+  Kroiz is a lot sharper than Menesch...

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   We can therefore assume that the reason Menesch is so desperate to get ships from the kats, is that
   he's lost his Confed supply. He again fails to see the possible consequences...
-−
   With a supply of kat ships, retros grow less reliant on talons and talon parts, whether new or used.
   This causes the second hand market prices for talons to plummet. That chokes Lynch, chokes the Confed