The Zoner Conference

[Mikrosh]

Mikrosh stands up again, to defend and clarify he's point.

Mr Victor, you didn't get my point. Most of us here are leaders of a group of zoners. We lead them, yet they are free people, we don't lead them as house leaders do. We price the individual freedom, yet we form small communities with a leading body.

Why would be any different if, the group formed by all the groups would have a similar leading body? Why do people believe that if we have a leading body, a pact or an alliance, we will automatically loose our freedom... I see no diference between a Council and every group's individual's leading body.

I believe that "we" are afraid of a leading body because we don't trust each other...

He stops for a few seconds.

Mr Victor, Mr Holiday, even though you might think that the zoners have done well without a council, we are not!
Zoners have lost their respect, more and more factions start to hate the zoners, they envy us or hate us for certain reasons. Most of the reasons they hate us are mistakes from our side, from our own people's side. Some of our groups or individuals have done things that have stained our name.

Lately, people have start to name us by groups, the idea of zoners, is slowly fading away. We are separate and split all over the Sirius, thing that makes us weak! If we are united, people will think twice before they would try to profit from us.

If the rest of the systems knows that we are Zoners, we are united, If they know that harming a group of our kind, they will have to deal with the entire zoner community, they will think twice...

And, how about our installations? How long do you think that our installations will survive out there on their own? We need to work together...

A council, won't have to be a ruthless leading body, a leading body should serve it's community, a council should act as a beacon of our unity, of our fraternity... A council should be more like a symbol, and all that should change for our kind would be the addition of a guide-line, a guide-line to prevent other events as the Freeport 11 one... Nothing more, a guide-line for a beacon of hope...

The council might not even be an actual council, maybe only in the eyes of the rest, for us should change nothing of importance. But people need to know that we are united, we need to work together somehow, and take care of our own, we need to wash the name of our ancestors, for it was stained.

And, the most important for us now, a council will be the living proof that we have settled our internal affairs, a proof that we can work together, that we trust each other, a proof that we are proud to be called zoners!

He takes back he's sit, and finish he's wine.

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