the Zoners

[bluntpencil2001]

1. They cant because there is same issue like with freeport 9... zoner jurgenauts somewhere.

Not good enough. Corsairs have the resources to wreck any Zoner fleet.

2. They cant because there are another fractions which have their own interests in canaria... BHg, Hessians, Junkers and Kusari of corse.

Yet more reason to attack.

3. Planet that close to Bretonia is undefendable. Bretonia just need 1 alie for strike against corsairs. They just need split corsarian forces.... for example outcasts supported with angry zoners attack Crete and Bretoninas Gran Canaria.

Invasion into Gran Canaria is just too big risk and can be last mistake which corsairs or Bretonians do.

If Kusari gets important fuel from Gran Canaria, which is an easier target than the Kusari fleet and has resources which Bretonia can use, it makes it a perfect target.

Same for Bretonia... if they attack Gran Canaria, corsairs just can move part of their fleet to guard Canaria, main defense forces are Jurgenauts... If Brets want Gran Canaria they need to move almost whole fleet into fight for that planet but with much powerfull Kusarinas knocking at the doors of Leeds? I dont think so.

If someone can get something from fight for Gran Canaria it would be Kusari, Outcasts and Hessains... nobody else.

Juggernauts? Please. Apparently there is only one Juggernaut, or very few, their existence not even very well documented by the Zoners themselves. The Bretonians have never heard of them. And Freeport 1 is terrified of Bretonian takeovers, but they don't bother. The infocards on GC suggest that A Bretonian takeover is possible, and that Corsairs are used as a buffer. In my opinion, this is utter idiocy. It only invites an attack. If Bretonia invaded, bombing Deuterium mines and Corsair bases, they would gain so much.

So in a sense they are powerful, but powerful does not meant mighty. I do believe however that if the Zoners were to disappear from Sirius all trade economies removed from the houses would fall.

Not true. Liberty doesn't really trade with Zoners. Neither do Bretonians. Rheinland neither. Kusari, a little. The Zoners attempt to exist outside of the majority of the economy, using an alternatie, trading with the IMG and similar.

The disappearance of such a small population wouldn't affect companies like Synth Foods who supply them very much. The Zoners have no major industries to speak of, their industrial brothers being the IMG.

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