#Summary: No

• A central government (your Inner Colonies) with enough power to fix prices on fuel and rations must have enough of a presence that it would object to Clans 'bumping' smaller outfits. Either there is law and order or there isn't, it is extremely difficult to have control only in some sectors of the economy.
• Corporations by and large believe that contracts should be fulfilled. Sure, they might try to wiggle out of unprofitable ones, but general lawlessness will hurt their bottom line.

Those two factors will make life hard on your Clans.

• The Asteroid Belt is not territory where one can easily draw boundaries for territories. It is a slightly-more-dense-than-average collection of rocks on different orbits. Two major asteroid settlements may be close to each other today, far apart a decade from now.
• The idea that the owner of an asteroid also owns, say, a sphere around it with 1,000 km radius also gets problematic when two asteroids pass closer than 2,000 km. Who is entering whose 'exclusive' space? What in the improbable case that three claimed asteroids meet?

So the idea that somebody holds a "stretch" of the Belt does not work. Perhaps somebody can own one or more asteroids, but not the volume in between.

Summary: No

• A central government (your Inner Colonies) with enough power to fix prices on fuel and rations must have enough of a presence that it would object to Clans 'bumping' smaller outfits. Either there is law and order or there isn't, it is extremely difficult to have control only in some sectors of the economy.
• Corporations by and large believe that contracts should be fulfilled. Sure, they might try to wiggle out of unprofitable ones, but general lawlessness will hurt their bottom line.

Those two factors will make life hard on your Clans.

• The Asteroid Belt is not territory where one can easily draw boundaries for territories. It is a slightly-more-dense-than-average collection of rocks on different orbits. Two major asteroid settlements may be close to each other today, far apart a decade from now.
• The idea that the owner of an asteroid also owns, say, a sphere around it with 1,000 km radius also gets problematic when two asteroids pass closer than 2,000 km. Who is entering whose 'exclusive' space? What in the improbable case that three claimed asteroids meet?

So the idea that somebody holds a "stretch" of the Belt does not work. Perhaps somebody can own one or more asteroids, but not the volume in between.

#Summary: No

• A central government (your Inner Colonies) with enough power to fix prices on fuel and rations must have enough of a presence that it would object to Clans 'bumping' smaller outfits. Either there is law and order or there isn't, it is extremely difficult to have control only in some sectors of the economy.
• Corporations by and large believe that contracts should be fulfilled. Sure, they might try to wiggle out of unprofitable ones, but general lawlessness will hurt their bottom line.

Those two factors will make life hard on your Clans.

• The Asteroid Belt is not territory where one can easily draw boundaries for territories. It is a slightly-more-dense-than-average collection of rocks on different orbits. Two major asteroid settlements may be close to each other today, far apart a decade from now.

So the idea that somebody holds a "stretch" of the Belt does not work. Perhaps somebody can own one or more asteroids, but not the volume in between.

#Summary: No

• A central government (your Inner Colonies) with enough power to fix prices on fuel and rations must have enough of a presence that it would object to Clans 'bumping' smaller outfits. Either there is law and order or there isn't, it is extremely difficult to have control only in some sectors of the economy.
• Corporations by and large believe that contracts should be fulfilled. Sure, they might try to wiggle out of unprofitable ones, but general lawlessness will hurt their bottom line.

Those two factors will make life hard on your Clans.

• The Asteroid Belt is not territory where one can easily draw boundaries for territories. It is a slightly-more-dense-than-average collection of rocks on different orbits. Two major asteroid settlements may be close to each other today, far apart a decade from now.
• The idea that the owner of an asteroid also owns, say, a sphere around it with 1,000 km radius also gets problematic when two asteroids pass closer than 2,000 km. Who is entering whose 'exclusive' space? What in the improbable case that three claimed asteroids meet?

So the idea that somebody holds a "stretch" of the Belt does not work. Perhaps somebody can own one or more asteroids, but not the volume in between.