Trade War

The Trade War or Commerce Conflict is the quiet ongoing struggle between the Family Hearth, Woag tribes, and Encircled territories, often involving all of the other nations of Soi both great and small. The war is fought over control of all overseas and overland trade routes of Soi. 
The Conflict is often fought using market manipulation, trade sanctions or depleting resources/demand before the other side can profit. On the occasions that the conflict becomes heated, raids, assassinations, or the occasional small army is raised under a neutral banner by proxy. 
== History ==
=== Expansion of Family trade network ===
=== Family conflict with Woag ===
The various Woag tribes of the northern sea proved themselves to be prodigious naval explorers, mapping out the innumerable islands, waterways, and surface oceanic currents of the planet, an effort that continues well into the modern era. Their knowledge and access to nearly every civilization and location gave them a great advantage of the Family Hearth in terms of overseas shipping. 
The Family Hearth attempted to lessen the Woag's advantage by disallowing them passage through areas controlled by their allies and customers under the implied or spoken threat of economic strangulation. The resulting conflicts between Woag traders and these new restrictions led to Woag traders simply fighting their way through blockades or ignoring the trade embargo with varying degrees of success. 
The God-mother, using the Woag's warlike reputation to her advantage, declared them pirates and banes to the civilized overseas commerce the Hearth of Sails was attempting to create. Many of the Woag's trading partners broke their agreements and henceforth traded exclusively with the Family Hearth. 
* The Hearth put a bounty on Woag, Collectible by turning in Woag fangs to Hearth of Sails representatvies
=== Technocracy taxation and alliance to Woag ===
== Conflict ==
=== Proxy Warfare ===
=== Targeting supply or demand ===
=== Trade sanctions ===
=== Sabotage ===