That's alright. We're still stealing your blueprints. And its not as if were giving them away for free, we're gonna make big bucks on this stuff. That and we could follow through like this if you really gave it some thought.
Opposing faction cares not for Dwarves. We supply novel ideas and expand on them into actual weapons, and run guns for the sides that like us. The sides that like us hit back at the side that doesn't have gun runners and a strong popularity with Dwarven folk like us, as everyone knows that Dwarven Smiths, and thus Dwarven Gunsmiths, will always be better than Humans. Its just fantasy rule, even DF follows through with THAT.
Thus, the people that like us, gain power, we gain popularity, we gain power, we bring the fight back to the mainland, than we bring the fight back to the north.
Revenge. That is our goal. Its the only goal we possibly have, and its the only way most of us can reasonably accomplish our own personal goals. Kogan wants to reclaim his ancestral home. Olon wants a great fight, and the demons and their horde of greenskins will provide it. Barbarossa is a patriot, he's bound to want to go back and see if anyone in the Nation survived, even if just a few outposts. Dwarves are hardy folk, they can dig in anywhere they want, and it'd be impossible to get to them unless they came out. They can even grow food in the depths of their forts. Theres Dwarves left, I'll bet.
And what of the others? Life on Othtar Noloc is a bigoted warlord infested rathole with dank and fetid waters, with enslaved or a few protected reservations of Dwarven folk that need to be freed.
Face it, we're their only hope. And maybe these humans aren't all bad. Maybe.