Why do zoners have cap ships?

[Redon]

I hate to admit it, but 0-74 is a perfect example as to why they need them 8|.
However, this generally sparked from having those ships in order to justify their military might so...

Personally I find it the perfect example why they should never have gotten them in the first place...

I agree. The variety of capital ships they have constantly seems to lead new players to believe that Zoners are some huge military might, and then they try to act accordingly ingame. I'd love to see them gone or restricted to SRPs or official factions. I'm not sure I remember the last time I saw a Zoner flying anything smaller than a Corvo, aside from whales. (Oh right, there was this one gunboat. Wow.)

Also, was this posted in Flood, or originally meant to be a serious thread? If it was, why flush it to Flood instead of cleaning up the shitposting?