Even if the Guild hadn't taken the initiative, Rorschach would have developed the communication system himself. Now was the perfect opportunity to piggyback on their efforts and find a sucker... or rather, a generous backer to foot the construction bill.
Business was business. Providing the technology and handling the manufacturing was one transaction; when a new company was formed to manage it, Rorschach would definitely invest his own money to get a piece of the action. Ideally, he would build a few of his own private lines alongside the public network.
Although the company hadn't even been founded yet, the Guild was already impatiently laying a trial line. It started from the Steel City of Kempson, near the border, and ran diagonally southward.
That's right—they were laying the trial line into a foreign country: the Holy Kingdom.
