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

[lIceColon]

What would be your explaination to 10 caps having 20 names?

It's a gaaaaame. even now in the server's declining state there are over 100 players in peak hours. If the server regains popularity (pfft lol wtf am I saying) then there may be more players who want to fly or rp zoner caps, and they should be allowed to. Simply put, if there are only 10 caps in the game, but there won't be 10 players online all the time to man them, that creates openings for others. The explanation is the same explanation for the fact that a ship you just popped 2 hours ago is now on your radar again firing at you. Or the fact that liberty still has enough battleships even when NPC battleships ram manhattan on a regular basis.

This is an argument that would easily get dismissed. During the building of 10 dreadnoughts those around Zoners would attack them.

I wonder why they didn't attack them as well. Maybe because just because a ship has - to a certain extent, dreadnought capabilities doesn't make it a dreadnought. There are a multitude of ways Zoners could have prevented an attack. Perhaps - idk - they disguised the ship as an expansion to a freeport, and then one day popped on an engine and blammo, a nephilim is born.

You can't raise an army in the name of "peace" and expect it to be ignored, because nothing guarantees that this army will stay peaceful and not turn its edge on on you one day.

Not an army, just a ship. The difference is in the people and purpose. And if the ship turns on you then all hell would break lose, so both oorp server rules and inrp diplomacy rules prevent the ship from turning against you. And the fact is the ships won't band together because the ships are not owned by a single entity.

Not to mention that how Zoners managed to scrap that much resources is still evading me, since I am yet still trying to find the justification for that.

Because they didn't start from scratch. hell, maybe a rich executive from a house corporation suddenly turned zoner, and just like that they'll have all the resources they'll ever need.
How gallia managed to keep themselves hidden despite there being so many explorers and space telescopes etc in sirius is evading me as well, but the devs still made that one work didn't they?

1 battleship? 2? Plausible, I would still want to see the reasoning of "why" and "how" (both in terms of how they actually do it, and in terms of how they keep them from so-called neutral parties).

It is not a battleship. It is a colony ship with battleship capabilities. Just because you have battleship capabilities doesn't mean you ever have to use them