If your character doesn't know the ins and outs of an area and their politics, maybe they should work with someone who does, etc. I'm just a big fan of characters 'staying in their lanes' when it comes to the fuzzy things, out of respect for everyone's focus and history, if that makes sense?
Hmm. While yes this does make sense, I think the Kahah situation is such, that one does not need to know the ins and outs of everything there to want to be involved. If all characters just waited for Kithrus to gain an audience with King Khanid, well, I'd guess evreyone would already be dead Dave. Or maybe not, but who knows.
Kahah is a 0.7, which is high sec, which means RKN all over anything that sneezes funny. 100% not saying YDIW, I think this is a great discussion. I'd probably have gone way lower than 1,000 but I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with the premise at all. It's a warzone all of the sudden right? So you can argue that that means things are more confusing and it's easier to land a few teams here and there, or you can argue that it's less likely because the system is swarming with RKN and ground troops now.
Yeah, pretty much my idea was that, the 1,000 for one is spread all over the system, so that makes a few hundred+ in Kahah III (originally 500 but many died before making to the surface because of AA) and rest everywhere else - not sure how many of the planets are actually inhabited, we know that at least 3 are. The 1,000 felt to me rational in a way that just a handful operatives could not drive much of wedge into the RK merry men, but any more units and it'd be more of an actual insurgent army and not just a group of people coming to cause trouble for the Khanid forces as well as help the rebels organize better.
-Immersion-breaking. There's enough ISK and things are priced a certain way that just because you can do a thing in game doesn't mean it's not facepalming for everyone else. I don't know what 'mercenaries' cost now but most could afford to buy legions and legions of them and show them in your cargo and say you are parking a freighter full of them in orbit to rain death on the populace/whatever. Not a good look.
Hows the arc going anyway?
Depends on where you buy the marines, or freedom fighters. Marines I think are more plentiful because 20 or so always get left over from certain missions. For example in Domain 500 marines cost you almost 400 million ISK. But other areas like Jita they're way cheaper, of course. Usually spread around multiple star systems though, which is what I meant with if someone has the time and patience and the means to park them on the lawn, I think it should be at least acknowledged.
And as I brought up, you can't fight much of a war with just infantry, which is the only thing we really have access to at least in any signifigant quantities, if we keep the "in-game items only" measuring stick in play.
Even if you dropped 100k or 1 million marines to a planet, they'd be massacred by any capable planetary militia with access to artillery, bombers, etc. Sure they might have some MANPADs and indirect fire capabilities, but most likely nowhere enough or with good enough range.
Oh, and the arc is.. I dunno. Stalled, though I guess they're considering and maybe even monitoring what the players are doing and if they'll assimilate or further acknowledge it. No new news since monday, though that might change at any time.