- Being out of their ZoI (the GRN ID was limited to the Taus and Gallic systems at the time - They were raiding alpha).
- Having a name/tag which was all about player nationality (CCCP = USSR).
- Allying with a faction they never should have met at all. (At the time the Corsair ID couldn't go to the Taus, GRN couldn't go further into sirius than the Taus, they should not have come into any contact.)
Oh yeah, and the slew of no-rp engagement sanctions, re-engaging sanctions, F1 sanctions... But I guess all that stuff is easy to forget, considering they only bothered making a poop-storm about and objecting to the alliance bit.
If you remember, an ENTIRE FACTION had their ships outright deleted before that, for having a nationality-based tag. The penalty the CCCP got was pretty lenient for that bit of disco's history, really