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Drake, the type of monolithic response that you describe would be forthcoming from Zoners to an incidence of a pirate taxing a Zoner seems to me to require a certain degree of nationalism that is the very thing that the Zoners are attempting to escape.
Zoners are not nationalistic or monolithic.
They have banded together, because they want to live separately.
They work and build together, because they want to go their own way.
The attitude that you describe is very unrealistic.
People behave badly all the time in the real world and they still do business in the community where the bad behavior occurred.
I personally would not tax a TAZ or other official Zoner clan, and I will persuade my Lane Hackers to refrain as well. However, anyone else claiming to be a Zoner falls into our very specific piracy policy, and had better find some way to make themselves useful if they want to operate in our area of operations. I'm sure my Hackers can be useful in return (we aren't the only pirates around, you know).
Every member of every faction is not of the same mind, and every act committed by a member of a faction does not have geopolitical consequences.
In any case, Zoners survive in many places due to the sufferance of their neighbors. Don't think of it as a tax, just think of it as a bribe for further sufferance.
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