On the record, our attack on Memento's caravan was due to a lack of communication on his part; as you know, I always gave proper warning of my intent when passing through your lands. Neither Mori nor anyone else let us know he was coming or what his intent was, so we jumped him (as we've had a bit of trouble with the S&D in our fiefs).
You jumped a caravan who took less than 200 S&D (not even a days worth) while at the same time one of your faction members was coming to take 400 of our S&D (more than double your "loss"). All I was saying, is that you could have brought it up with any of us before actually attacking him. Canary's defense was that he had to attack to ensure he receives his S&D back, and he admitted to attacking simply because he wanted a fight (Chaos hasn't had any wars). He had been annoyed with traders stealing his S&D for a while now, notably a Hospitaller caravan that stole 1000 S&D and felt the need for hostilities towards whoever he could catch. I still find it interesting that Hospitallers can steal 1000 S&D and walk away freely, but one of my guys gets ambushed over less than 200 goods. Surely Hospitallers could have provided you guys a better fight than the Josho Shogunate, who has had the longest standing war in NA strategus, and has been attacked by multiple factions.
Our entire campaign against LLJK has been with our own troops and our own gold, with the exception of Elindor's army which defended Mazigh only yesterday. We have had more battles than anyone and have suffered heavy losses (not as much as LLJK, but war is war). Of course other large factions would want to fight someone they know can't defend themselves as their resources have been used in lasting war. It would have been more interesting if you guys attacked the Hospitaller caravan that stole 1000 goods (a sum worthy of war), at least then you would have a real fight on your hands...or did you not really want a real fight?
Anyways had you spoken with me, the goods could have been returned, or I would have sent someone to bring you even more goods than you lost, or you may have just let us have them because at that point you would have been made aware that we are allowing your faction 400 of our S&D.
Regardless of how I feel about the situation, and how Canary feels about it, I did visit you guys in TS and we worked some of it out I think. Something about considering compensating us for the attack after the battle, but nothing was guaranteed or made specific.