Corsair - Zoner

[farmerman]

That's not what the Zoners are though. They are not a unified group, they are a label for freelancers living in the border and edge worlds. The way the Zoners are run right now (no central authority, each Freeport governs itself) is exactly how the Zoners are supposed to be in canon.

Just because all Zoners fly under the same IFF doesn't mean that they have the same goals, the same ideas and the same diplomacy. Rather, the Zoner NPC faction should be split according to regions which can all adopt different diplomacy depending on the current political climate. This way Freeports can dictate individual diplomacy and we can get stop this silliness where a faction tries to blame *all* Zoners for the actions of a single Freeport.

It really needs to happen since it seems that people just can't grasp the idea that the Zoner NPC faction is more like the Freelancer NPC faction - not a real faction, more of a label.

While it may be that Zoners were intended to be this way, it's clearly not how they are in Disco. No small groups of people could build the sorts of ships that Zoners apparently have hordes of.

Maybe the solution should be to split the Zoner IFF into, say, 3 IFFs? Tau Zoners, Omega Zoners, and Omicron Zoners? With specific regional connections, they could actually act on regional issues.

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