To: ALL Zoners, notice.

[JIVA]

"It feels a bit strange to have the Order command question which group may or may not be considered a Zoner. You are free to consider the JIVA as you like though because the term Zoners was coined by other people to describe the multitude of motivations that drove those of us who are not so easily categorized as a military or paramilitary organization.

Motivation of the JIVA corporation is unbound research, free from the eyes of govermental or military organizations that influence research to do their bidding. We wish to stay clear of an authoritative institution that can tell us what we can and cannot do other than recognized Zoner groups.

This is not meant to be defensive or hostile against Order influence or manipulation of our work but it is our principle that we abstain from groups that attempt to claim the right to impose military law on us.
Since your consequences described included the attack and destruction of our ships or contracted ships, and consequently their inevitable death, this group has decided that we must not deal with such a group beyond the utmost necessary. We may understand such martial law but we do not share it. We are a civilized people who do not believe in the death sentence without impartial trial.

The times when one side embodied the accuser, judge and executioner in one are a reason i and my fellow colleagues have left the house worlds, where ignorance and power rule, where life is cheap and the enforcing powers never hesitate to kill rather than to reason.

With that said, you may call the JIVA group whatever you like, but we will not submit to a military organization that would kill hundreds without trial before an impartial court, an organization that would kill even the innocent crew members for what they believe is the folly of their superiors.
That is why we abandon research on nomad specimen and conduct research on micro-organisms and nanospores. That way our ways do not need to cross and we do not need to submit to your laws.

sincerely CEO of the Xenoresearch group Corinth, Dr Ásgærðr Varðrdottir"

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the [JIVA] group