So hey, about the recent Zoner drama. Use it much?

[Anaximander]

No that's not actually right, the way I see it at least:

1. Be friends with everyone in the usual creepy Zoner fashion while you build your base and RP your group.
2. Get bored with your base and all the work put into it and set it to kill stuff (this fad seems to be an ongoing trend with official factions as well, mind you).
3. Order getting pissy for good reason in-rp, all official factions in the region jump aboard in support of another official faction for dubious reasons - the situation quickly escalates and get severely prolonged when all the factions + assorted trolls and noobs combined realize they can't bring down those bases as easily as they had thought. Whoops.
4. Lolwuts and noobs that want to impress start stirring and create a hostile atmosphere on the forum towards the base building group (who did do something stupid in my book - but not something that other groups and official factions haven't done before with little to no issue), lolwuts and noobs that want to troll join in the fun on both sides.
5. Zoners both sides acting like it's the annual epeen contest (honestly you should go to O74 and listen into the Zoner-on-Zoner banter, it's like the school yard), no solution can be found.
6. .............
7. We all lose.

I find it absolutely justified that Corsairs and Order shoot that base, just like Outcasts should have shot Mal FP. I do find it unjust that ZA cannot be allowed to act foolish, when TAZ can.

EDIT: On a positive and pro-active note I do think the best thing would be if one Zoner group negotiated a treaty with Corsairs and Order, had other Zoner parties agree on it, and then declared ownership of O-74 along with martial law - let Order and Corsairs gun down everything that moves in O74 until those bases are gone; and afterwards this Zoner group could take control of O74 and enforce those rights negotiated with Corsairs and Order in the treaty. Sure Zoners as a whole would lose a bit of sovereignty, but the rule of law in Omicron-74 would be enforceable and the new owners could build some nice RP out of it, and be the first Zoner group with more dimensions than just one.