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Originally Posted by Olefin
There are tankers running back and forth from the surviving oil fields of the Middle East to Mombasa to use the refinery there that are guarded by the French and by the US. Kenya itself only has a total of six operational oil wells that are producing a few hundred barrels of oil per day so what the refinery is processing is basically all coming from the Middle East.
The refinery is providing oil to both CENTCOM and AFRICOM as well as the French as its the only one in the area still fully working (outside of South Africa). That trade will eventually go down as surviving refineries are brought back online in the Middle East. Those tankers are smaller in size than the supertankers.
And yes love to somehow tie the canon Bangkok module into it as well
FYI even though my stuff is V2.2 I dont see the 2300AD setup as canon - especially how it refers to Mexico and its occupation of the US Southwest - that is a non-starter for me and many others as the chances of the US not taking back that area is basically nil - the faster than light method in the 2300AD canon is more realistic to me than Mexico holding most of the Southwest for 300 years after WWIII and also conquering all of Central America while they are at it
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Even if you reject parts of the 2300AD as canon, the idea that the Japanese Merchant Marine survives since Japan would make the most sense considering that a war in Europe might have had the Japanese to become very isolationist and reject the larger global war situation. It would also make sense that the Soviets would do the same, in either V1 timeline or V2 timeline; that the War in China was about borders and the War in Europe was about suppressing fascists.
That may have even had the Japanese try to do what they would need to do save their own merchant fleet and save their own economy. Considering that short of the US Military bases they had nothing else for nuclear targets for either the US or Soviets. So they could have done exactly what the French did in Europe. Go isolationist and kill anything that tries to land in or around their islands. After the rounds of nuclear strikes occurred.
They need an oil to make their economy work. The French need the electronic tech that the Japanese have; so I could see them working together to maintain peace. Doing what trading is required to maintain their economies.
So I would say that instead of American and British Tankers like we saw in the 20th century. The 21st century will be one of Japanese and French tankers moving the oil required to run the world until peak oil occurs.