Proposal: Remove Battleships from the Zoner ID.

[Eduard]

* Kazinsal dons a flame-retardant suit

Your average Zoner does not need a capital warship. They're in tight with the Order in case something goes horribly wrong in the Omicrons. They can go hide in Baffin if things get pants-soilingly bad in the Taus. The Sigmas are pretty close to the Omicrons. Same with the Omegas.

Now, add in the question of "who really wants to kill Zoners?" and you've led to the question, "do random Zoners really need battleships?"

No. They don't.

Of course, there are a couple official Zoner factions that could use one or two -- Phoenix and TAZ for example. Thankfully, TAZ already has an ID of their own. Phoenix doesn't, but they could get a SRP one if they wanted to.

"But what about the mobile Freeports, Kaz?"

The Jinkusu Juggernaut was designed as one. The Nephilim Dreadnought is not. Check the infocards. I think I remember one usage, maybe two, of the Jinkusu as a "mobile freeport". That's it. Everyone else used them for waving around like male-exclusive extremities or pewing nomads in the Omicrons even though they're not supposed to according to the ID.

Just remove them from the ID. A destroyer is plenty for your average Zoner.

Discuss.

I agree. Zoners don't need battleships. And here's my opinion why:

Protection? Well, to put it blunt: If a zoner gets into the position where he needs to fight and defend himself, and where his diplomatic skills failed, then he deserves to die.

A zoner defensive weapon is persuasion and finding a gray line of diplomacy/neutrality to shelter in.

Someone just really wants to kill zoners? Well, then... if that does happen, then they are really dead. InRP, Zoners don't have enough materials or production efficiency to make a capital fleet comparable to one of their aggressors ( I'm personally straying away from the idea that the zoner caps grew in the trees over night. I don't like that ) and thus, the only possible method to guarantee their survival would be requesting external aid

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