Corsair - Zoner

[Stygian]

Not being involved in this in any way, but having read the posts - including the FP9/Omicroners debate with the Corsairs - I fail to see the problem. Zoners may claim neutrality, but if they are not perceived as neutral - which is understandable seeing that they are housing raid parties - then that's that. You can't force your neutrality on to other people, that makes no sense. There is a certain smugness found in a lot of Zoner characters (which the previous Corsair vs. Omicroner debate clearly showed), and I think it is 100% fair that they learn some humility - especially when claiming to be taking a neutral stance.

Imagine Sweden in WWII - had they taken a firm stance against the Nazi's, they wouldn't have been able to maintain neutrality. They would have been rolled over in a heartbeat. So that is the downside of neutrality - you rely on every one else's good will (in fact you are only neutral to the extent that everyone else agrees), and if you can't deal with that you will very soon find that people won't perceive you as neutral any longer.

I think people saying this is a just a bad excuse for oorp pew pew are totally wrong - in fact I think RP-wise, Corsair brutal backstory considered, the Zoners have been lucky to keep Theta and even O74. If I was a brutal Corsair warlord, I would have wiped out any possible threat in the vicinity of Gamma - and when the Corsairs haven't done so already, I see it as a an oorp gentleman-gesture to make sure Zoner players have a good time too.

Bingo! Now if the majority of the Zoner playerbase would realize this things would be much better down there for them. That has been OSI's game all along and we're doing just fine.

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