Zoner ID

[Drake]

As far as I'm concerned, even fully tagged and IDd Zoners are open targets to pirates. Its up to their defenders to stop the pirate. Thats what escorts are for. Sure, AW will help Zoner-IDd ships if they are being pirated, and will help any traders being pirated in Theta for obvious reasons. Though if we see a Zoner-IDd ship with some stupid tag like Corsair, or Outcast, or Republican Shipping.. They are fair game. I'd regard them as people who put Zoner paint jobs on their ships, while their IFF still shows their true faction alignment.

If someone makes a habit of attacking/pirating Zoners (real Zoners), then it should be possible to ban him from access to Zoner bases (make it OORP for them to do so), or have his Zoner Rep set to red. Zoners may be neutral and Freeports open to all, but not those stupid enough to attack them.