Assaulting Zoners and OORPness

[Jinx]

the junkers neutrality is a different one. Junkers are quite - to the inside aswell as to the outside. they are neutral, because they are causing no trouble to pirates or lawfuls. in addition to that, they are a connection for many lawful investigators, cause they have more insight into both worlds.

if i d have to describe their neutrality, i would say it is a very passive neutrality. don t get caught, don t behave strange, just pretend to be not there at all. Junkers are like beggars sort of, normal people "do not see" them, as long as they are quite - mind the middle age; - beggar guilds could grow quite powerful.

On the contrary zoners are activly neutral. they are working for not getting attacked. they may be quite to the outside, but behind the obvious, they are forging connections, demanding little gifts here - giving treats there. - its much more a give and take than what the junkers do. zoners are not neutral to outcasts and corsairs cause they pretend to be invisible - on the contrary, they make sure they are clearly there and also needed for both factions. zoners activly make sure that the war between the two greatest rivalling factions outcasts and corsairs never ends too soon. they meddle with politics in a way no junker would dare to. junkers wouldn t like to manipulate those factions, cause it would mean to be in the focus of both - if things go wrong.
oh, and by the way - zoners smuggle just as much as junkers - depending on the place you are within sirius.

so what do both factions recieve from their effords and their very different approach towards neutrality - or "not to get attacked". the junkers are ignored - they are free to do their stuff as long as they don t bother others. if others start to look upon them - they would most probably pretend to be harmless and unimportant - too unimportant to have any lawful really bother or any pirate really go after them. they are more or less the lower class of neutrals - being able to provide both, lawfuls and unlawfuls with unique information from the very base of things that happen.

zoners have their freedom, too. they can usually roam where they like and have the power to enforce their wishes. when someone tries to look into what they really do - they can probably make sure nothing is there to be seen - provided they pay enough money for that. when it comes to hostilities, there have been quite some suggestions how they could / would behave.
they also provide lawfuls and unlawfuls with unique information, but on another level than junkers. zoners ( in my opinion ) do not have the insight in the lower classes like junkers - but they know more about the upper classes. politicians, lawyers, high ranking military people - but rather not what some common ensign thinks.

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