The Rebellion is not an entity. If a merchant on Kaasu wants to transport a cargo to Khukish, the Rebellion is not going to stop him. If corsairs infest every system between the two (none of them are populous enough to have adequate system defenses of their own), either Kaasu or Khukish can station a CruDiv at a gas giant in the Hannel system and no corsairs are going to be able to get at the merchants that start to use that gas giant for refuelling. Remember, if corsairs assemble a group big enough to take out a CruDiv, they're going to get some very expensive ships shot full of holes. Far more holes than two weeks worth of merchant traffic can pay for.1. Trade reduces to nothing as the Rebellion requires all assets. This is also a drain on supplies going to non-self sufficient colonies and client states.
Transport costs will rise and some trade will become uneconomical, but some trade will remain.
The canon betrayal at Kaasu still leaves the humans in charge. X-boats have been irrelevant for high-performance communication since jump-5 was invented.3. Communications failures in Corridor IN (sabotage) and later canon betrayal at Kaasu. I do not use XBoats for all communications.
Yes, but how big a threat? The Glory of Taarskoerzn is a joke and the corsairs by their very nature a minor nuisance.4. A presumed threat on the part of the Vargr nations.
Hans