the Zoners

[bluntpencil2001]

Yes, as Doc Holliday points out, individual Zoners might be dangerous. However, their population and production isn't high enough on a wider scale.

Look at nations like Switzerland, for instance. They are known to be hard as nails. Do they make a difference globally? I'm sure they do, but not to the same extent as their neighbours.

Also, with the Deuterium trade from Gran Canaria, which is a habitated planet, showing cooperation with Corsairs...

That really doesn't ring true to me. That Deuterium is supplying Kusari warfleets, for instance, collaborating with their war effort, and also collaborating with known pirates.

It's really asking for a Bretonian invasion, or at least a strike. I doubt even the Corsairs would be able to protect it, what with Hessian expansion preventing the Fes to advance to 49. The Zoners wouldn't put up much resistance, as they appear to be the masters of soft power, but lacking in hard power.

Of course, this would have knock on effects, with Freeport 1 being taken, the Corsair link being widely publicised et cetera et cetera.

Oh, another thing I don't get is that Gran Canaria is a paradise with Corsairs on it. Why don't the Corsairs migrate there from Crete, and kick the Zoners out?

Oh, I can't remember this, but what is the date for the founding of Freeport 1?

I believe it as easonably recent.

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