We don't know what % or fee of any of the Lacoon II wormholes was either going to
1) OFS, OFS & the local OFS Govenor for those under Protectorate status or similar arrangement.
2) OFS or directly to the SL Admin Bureau for Intersetllar trade For SL Member sustems or non-SL independent Star Nations
3) It would appear that somebody like Beowulf would not have been paying fees (nobody has mentioned it) but Beowulf has been protecting it's end of the Sigma Draconis wormhole to the Junction and "has not required or requested" SL assistance or oversight.
This could be a fairly wide range of fee splitting but at this point OFS is out of the game and the actual question is what Manticore is going to do with those wormholes it holds. From Manticore's and the GA's perspective, the safest solution is to negotiate co-jurisdiction rights to the termini of said wormholes (seperate treaties with the systems at each end) and provide the Astro Control operations and oversight. Give that perhaps allmost all of those systems were previously dealing with OFS, this could be accomplished with a REDUCTION in tariffs/fees for transport but most likely that the local system would get a larger piece (because OFS isn't takeing a gigantic bite) and Manticore work with a smaller thatn 50% piece after the Astro Control and any security costs deductions.
Yes, at least Manticore would be providing modern starship/LAC security. Anything but using other GA naval assets would be putting these stratigic and tactical assets in jeopardy. Manticore and the GA really really doesn't want some rising problem System or group grabbing a terminus in the process of carving out an empire by force.
As far as the Junction is concerned, it would be prudent that Manticore retain the kind of multi-tiered fee schedule it has in the past. Manticore flagged shipping at one rate. Manticore allied systems a differnt rate, systems with specific levels of diplomatic and trade agreements another rate and general traffic yet another. Systems with difficulties with Manticore short of the kind of problems Erwhon had would be another -and seperately indexed- set of rates.
The same kind of thing would apply -adjusted for where and who the terminus holders are- across the known space.
I would suspect that there was some kind of rational basis for setting wormhole fees beyond the arivice of OFS, the Mandarins and various Presidents for Life. Probably something to do with the actual cost of managing and monitoring the wormhole, providing Astro Control service, and a level of income - with a scale above base cost ranged on the mass of ship and cargo (and other things ).
