Right?! Lots of these things sound like they'd be easy if everybody knows and can help each other. Whatever the rewards for them are- they'd help our situation too!

[ But he knows why, and that reason is trust. They are all, in the end, strangers to one another, aside from the lucky (? unlucky) few who have known each other before and have a better grasp on their character, whether they're somebody to be trusted through thick and thin. ]