Why do (or don't) you fly a Zoner? Serious question.

[7AlphaOne1]

Once upon a time I was interested in the Zoners. Then someone gave them capital ships and a weird back story, not to mention Baffin and all that cult nonsense.

Here's the way they should be; back to their original inexplicable glory. I'll just say in advance I'm a big fan of vanilla and the original SP which may help explain why.

• The Zoners run the Freeports, someone's gotta keep the rabble in line. They are, or should I say should be rather ill equipped to do so. I mean the beginning of the storyline of Freelancer was a Freeport getting blown to hell from a handful of torps.
  
• They aren't a serious faction, they just answer the question of where to land in the border worlds. You may as well call all their bases Freelancer bases because that's more or less what they were supposed to be.
  
• Colony ships I get
  
• Big transports I get
  
• A home planet I do not; being a rag tag bunch that moved out or got kicked out of the houses, they wouldn't have that level of organisation, and if they did, one house or another would claim the land before they even got comfortable.
  
• Neutrality is self serving on their freeports. They don't need to maintain it but it's in the best interest of all the parties involved to stay friendly seeing as it's a pretty convenient location for organised crime etc etc.
  
• One of said factions may turn nasty an nick a biodome or two *glares at sairs*, but it's a risky business dealing with untrustworthy people.
  

Now if that that were the Zoners then i'd gladly fly as one. None of this ultimate neutrality nonsense, they should be just as vulnerable as everyone else to piracy and war. Perhaps even moreso considering they should have little infrastructure between their Freeports.

well, my argument:
*In 801 as, starkiller swarm could kill a nomad bs
*we are not talking about them from an oorp perspective. by rp, they just needed to gtfo of the houses, and dont mind dealing with anyone
*Home Planet? well , we found one, and OSI , with its enormous wealth, just colonised it. then, it goes boom. why? Ice age. so, you can call the planet issue even
*We have no shortage of people pirating the zoners, albeit the number has gone down due to the overall number of pirates dropping.


thats about it.

edit: and may I add, in some places, zoners are pretty much outlawed?

the Gallic incident, QCP , Omicroners, TAZ 'enema'ing' GRN, Love.Joy, take your pick

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