First Baffin Zoner Zummit at The Zenarch, Malaclypse Freeport

[Gypsie]

Dr. Mojo returned to the stage after Sarah finished her speech. He wanted to back up her words so he decided to let his own words wait and spoke.

Gentlemen, we are all aware of what independence means to the Zoner way. And because of that, I understand why some of you are reluctant or at least doubtful of merging your stations or groups into the Confederation. But let me tell you, if you are not taking into account the advantages of counting on your brothers and sisters, it must probably be because you are right now not facing any threat bigger than what you can handle by yourselves.

He took a deep breath as he watched the reaction of the people in the Amphitheatre.

I am an old man, and as the proverb says here in baffin, Eris is wiser because of her age than from being a Goddess. I beg you dig up on your own history, and see what troubles did the previous administrations have to face.

He looked at the only man in the room who seemed older than him, though Mojo knew he was actually some dozen decades younger.

Let's take for example the case of Freeport Eleven. Sure, you might not have anything to do with the wars in the Omegas, and the Gallic threat in the Taus, but let me ask you. Who will you count on when crap hits the fan in Delta? The friggin system is a powder keg! Order and Core terrorizing each other, unpredictable Nomad activity, and you in the middle of all that. If you joined the CoF, you would be certain that when the time comes to ask for help, help will be delivered hastly. It's not as if it isn't this way alrady, but it's more efficient if we are bound together.

Another advantage is that we can be united when foreign parties want to adress us. Also, any response we give will have the weight of the whole Zoner community. Anyways, I just wanted to support Sarah here, you should pay attention to what she said, it's no nonesense.

He abandoned the stage and walked up to where Thomas was waving at him. He shook his hand and sat next to him.

I'm glad you came my friend. You need to step forward and tell them about your idea you know? Else this is getting nowhere.

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Malaclypse Freeport