Faction Reputation Infocards

[jammi]

Gas Miners Guild:
Add IC as allies
Remove Zoner from allies
Comment: There was never an alliance with the Zoners. The partnership with Interspace Commerce however, is well-documented.

I think I read somewhere zoners bought H-Fuel from GMG and resell it to people that would not be able to buy it directly from GMG (due to diplomacy, lack of transport ship, travel distance, etc.). This could make sense for the Order that was supplied by zoners.

Regarding the alliance between GMG and zoners, there are some RP examples:
* when Kusari government made an embargo on GMG, the Zoner Trading Consortium (ZTC) broke it to bring supplies to GMG base in Honshu (and there was also a boycott of Samura bases if I remember well)

* when corsairs attacked ZTC in the omicron systems, GMG was there to bring assistance.

So, basically, what you're saying is anyone the GMG sells their primary commodity to should be an ally? Wow. GMG's gonna have a pretty long infocard.

The GMG/Zoner alliance has never made much sense, and there's no justification for it that's ever been written into infocards or really properly RPed by player factions. The only way you'd ever know they were allied is by reading the F9 status infocard, which is weird as hell.

So far as I know, it's a relic from Discovery's earliest days, when the Zoners were given a wide range of import caps, and the GMG a number of import snubs. They were allied because both were seen as widely 'neutral', which back in those days meant pretty much anyone could use the tech freely.

These days the whole relationship is just a bit... wat. Nix it.