Talk:Empire of the Isles/@comment-89.72.22.18-20131228110527/@comment-27202257-20131228185435

"If empire was aliance of suverenge city states whit empress as overall representativ this would make some sens."

It is, which it says on this very page: "While Gristol is the heart of the Empire, the remaining islands are mostly autonomous, with their own heads of state."

"Also blocking water routs would clearly creapeld they'r economy yeat they still got land rout that should connect them whit other citys on the iland, or they cant travel by land ?"

Land travel has always been notoriously slow, and you run the risk of cargo being stolen by highwaymen or damaged in transit (and though you have similar dangers via sea trade, they're not as pronounced). In addition, in order for goods from Dunwall to be shipped to the other nations (because they don't care nearly as much about the other cities in Gristol), they would have to be transported to a smaller harbor elsewhere in Gristol, which would raise prices and decrease supply. Given that Dunwall is likely being quarantined to prevent land travel as well, and other cities may not accept the goods because they know about the plague, that becomes even more difficult.

Though, the blockade was never about hurting their economy. It was about preventing the spread of the rat plague.

"I understand that there are beast etc but why exactly they couldnt build colony ? Was it becos of pirets cuting off supplyes ?"

That's left up to the imagination. All we knows is that any and all attempts have ended in "failure and madness."