A Dillema

[Agmen of Eladesor]

At one point in time - before the ID got screwed up - there was an official AI faction. (NOT the Harvesters.) That AI faction started on Gammu, and claimed that planet for themselves since it was physically impossible for humans to live on the planet anyway. Yes, the Zoners had 'claimed' the planet - but they had found out that there were high levels of radiation and they couldn't live there after they set up a landing base and spaceport.

[Edit: and there was RP with the Zoner factions transferring ownership of Gammu from the Zoners to the AI's. This happened before the ZA ever existed, so it's considered history and established now. Not a powergame - established lore. End Edit.]

Sort of like if you claimed some land for your own, built your house there, and then found out there's a uranium mine underground - as in RIGHT underground. You can come visit - for about 10 minutes a year - but if you live there for two weeks in a row, you're perma dead.

Primus has something similar going with it - there's something in the air that in short doses (or if you ALWAYS use canned air) you're fine. You get more than about 5 minutes of unregulated air - and you're perma dead. The monkeys are genetically immune to it - they evolved from the survivors.

It's also a case of the Zoners claimed the planets - and then found out that there are inhabitants already there. And those inhabitants are already sentient and well capable of defending themselves, just not interested in space flight - or they weren't until the Zoners showed up. Now ... well, that's what trade agreements are all about. The Zoners provided the AI's with some info on building ships, and the AI's provided the Zoners with some raw materials that they couldn't get handily from elsewhere. Ditto with the monkeys. The monkeys haven't really wanted to leave their planet much, the AI's ... yeah, they're exploring now.

Note that this is the lore of the mod - the two planets were originally put in as easter eggs, since there was no place else to GO past here in the unmodded Freelancer.

So it would be fully within their RP if the AI's decided to blockade 'their' system. The Zoners have claim to the planet only because they were the first humans to find them - not because they actually 'own' them. And as long as the AI's don't act like Harvesters, who cares? That's part of RP and diplomacy anyway.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.