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[Othman]

Now thats something I can agree with, as my Unioner I have on occasion pirated a trader outside Freeport 2 in Bering. It has never sat well with me, we should be lane-hacking. The Zoners neutrality would be called out if we are openly pirate traders in front of them. I propose for [W] that we stop this behaviour right now because it is wrong.

And yes AoM as I said earlier I think pirating outside a house planet/base is wrong. Pirating is for open space not in full view of the authorities who should by rights be able to blow you to kingdom come in nanoseconds.

We cant say that it is totally wrong to pirate in front of a Zoner base. Our ZoI is already limited. And it would be hard to strictly enforce a full ban of piracy around the zoner bases. But still if we investigate the detailed RP roots of this, Unioners were warned by the Zoners to take their criminal activities elsewhere and thats why they carved the Pacifica. So Zoners, despite doing an intense business with Unioners, actually would not like to see Unioners taxing traders around their bases which could do business with Zoners as well. Say if we had a Zoner aligned faction active in Bering, which would very unlikely happen to be honest, they would not like us taxing traders in front of Freeport II. But still, the thing is even if we arrange our own faction to avoid pirating around Zoner bases, I have doubts about being able to completely enforce this for every faction. And in Bering, the mid tradelanes location are not too far away from the freeport, say 10-15k, which could make the things a bit vague in that occasion if the trader is making a run for it. And he would most probably do when he sees a wing of Unioners on his tail.

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