Why do zoners have cap ships?

[Trogdor]

Well, in the Zoners' defense, everybody is our enemy, just not all the time. You can't just look at the politics of this week and say 'hm, well, there's no massive catastophe going on right now, so they don't need caps, right? Logic!'

Granted, having these ships made more sense when the Zoners were a unified faction under the flag of the Zoner Council (And a few of us tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade the leaders of OSI that re-forming it is a good idea.) This is the biggest problem, both in the canon and practically. Our 'official factions' do not represent the Zoners. One's a corporation, the other's a religious sect. It would be like if DSE was leading the Liberty Navy.

OSI in particular has very little regard for other Zoners, as evidenced by that bloody base in Dublin they helped build.

This lack of centralized leadership is the cause of all the Zoners' problems. There's no one guiding the indies, so they all do their own thing. Not that I'd want them actually having faction-rights command over said indies, but it'd be nice if there was an entity to tell them 'these are the politics of the day, we'd appreciate it if you went and did X'.

Even the ID is listless; It basically boils down to 'yup. You're a.... thing...' And maybe you might get away with participating in a fight, if no one reports you, since you're technically not really supposed to do anything but sit around in your giant tub.

I'll be honest, I haven't played for a while (mostly because of these issues) and I have little clue what's been going on lately aside from 'ZA is up to wacky antics'. Well, at least they're doing something... You guys seem to be upset that they're doing the wrong thing. When we can all agree on what the right thing is, someone please let me know. Are we a Sirius-spanning burgeoning empire, with resources rivaling a house? Or are we a loosely-associated assemblage of somewhat nomadic tribes, each trying to scrape out an existence in the various corners of Sirius? When I started on Disco and I was so excited about making a capship captain, it was the former. Lately, it looks more like the latter. If it's the latter, then yeah, you can go ahead and take away all of our toys, since there'd be no basis for us to have them. Of course, that'd be completely nerfing us, but hey, it's not like it's -your- beloved faction.

It's very frustrating.

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