To: Zoners of Freeport 9 and surrounding systems

[Trogdor]

Meridius, Dalilama, Haydamak. You are cowards.

Our best days were when we Zoners spoke with one voice: our Council. When faced with a crisis, the Council did not back down and hand over control of an entire system to the conflicting party to appease their demands.

Neighbors do not make demands and ultimatums of each other, Haydamak! Time and again these cretins have abused our hospitality. Every chance they get, whenever there are no Zoner Guards watching, they use our Freeports as forward raiding bases. Sometimes that doesn't even matter. On more than one occasion a corsair has blatantly attacked someone inside a no-fire zone while we, a massive Zoner capital ship, have been sitting RIGHT THERE.

And then they throw a tantrum when someone does it to them.

So please, let there be no mistake. The Corsairs have asked for this, and the leaders of our sub-factions have thus far either failed to respond or attempted to sell us out. You would let them walk all over us?

We owe it to ourselves, and to those who come after us, to muster up as much steel as we can. Through our own assets and any who would stand against a common enemy, we will remind their elders why they have minded themselves in our house for so long, since they seem to have forgotten.

-Captain Trogdor, The Burninator
Omega 3

---