The Bentheim System. Usually bustling with trade ships and passenger ships of all shapes and sizes, in recent days civilian traffic practically dropped to nil.
No more resources were being supplied to the factories on the ground.
No tourists came to experience the hustle and bustle of the Bright Republic's liveliest planet.
No mechs and other manufactured goods were being shipped to other locations.
The star system turned into the opposite of what a prosperous port system should look like.
Part of the decrease in traffic was due to the destruction of a lot of border states.
Without a lot of secure and established trade routes, how could the bounty of the frontier and the border states be shipped towards the center of the star sector?
The loss of so many trading partners already hurt Bentheim and the Bright Republic considerably.