The Western Passage Trade War

The trade war started as two companies Afrasin central and Collective Transport both began using the town as a waypoint west. Afrasin uses a large fleet of traders and big deals to transport items and make money from the transport and Collective uses a franchise like system where anyone can trade with them and transport material or items they collect to anywhere they want and Collective organizes the deals and gives out routes. Westner was acting as a main selling point in more people joining Collective. The war began when a group of Afrasin employees decided to cut away from Afrasin with a cargo full of magical gems and then joined Collective to have a better deal driving force. This switch happened in the newfound Westner where very little man power existed to physically stop the swap. The run away employees ended up making a lot of money in the deal giving a cut to Collective. This ended up having Afrasin approach Collective about the problem and Collective denied they new anything about the theft. Afrasin started approaching collective freelancers and hiring them on the spot. More Afrasin employees also started stealing and working with Collective and this back and forth became incredibly fierce. The trade war started becoming violent quickly with adventurers hired to kill runaway employees and protect runaways from attacks. This came to climactic point when a group of two guarded caravans started fighting and this escalated into other adventurers coming in and trying to steal the carts which ended in many dead. Soon after this fight which lost both of the companies a lot of money the two companies decided to make an agreement to brand each of their caravans and not allow crew affiliated with the other company from partnering with them. This deal lasted for several years and eventually led to a merge of both companies into Afrasin Transport.  The new company has since expanded into one large company called Atransa which controls most trade and adventuring in Arcnine.