Zoners - why they do exist?

[Black Jack]

That's a good point Lyth. Zoners are, commonly speaking, not even a loose federation like IMG - like the Bounty Hunters Guild from vanillia, who were flying only the common technology and ships, not being necessairy the big organization. IMG are, according to the original lore, not really a one single body at all.

Well according to lore, zoners are faction that tired to live in house space. They chosen free life outside. They are travelers, explorers. They even found Leviathan Dreadnought and made it their own. Now about bases in house borders: border is not house space, so zoners have full wright to be there.

Going back to rules, which I never wanted to mention, but let's go ahead with that. If Zoners aren't a single faction, they are, this way, a generic faction. Zoner ID is a generic ID then. Like Freelancer ID - but they are mainly dedicated to steady trade in regions far far away - and inside house space on a smaller scale. Also, I do not really understand "defending the Zoner bases/ships" line. This way, no Zoner ID is allowed to shoot at the vessels violating NFZ, just a small remark here. Because I do not see such a line.

Rules: Yes zoners can trade only outside of house space, BUT only on ships that have more than 3600 cargohold. On 3600 and smaller they can trade with house and dock there.
About zoner defending zoner ships/bases. Like every other faction zoners can defend other zoner ships, but we don't care about all others. And about bases: NFZ (or No Fire Zone) is not written in ID, but it's written in COF (Confederation of Freeports). There sayes that we need to worn ships that violationg NFZ and ask him to leave. If he will still do unlawfull acts in 10k range of any zoner base, then zoners have full wright to attack to force him get out ot kill.

This however means that TAZ has no right to ask for FR5, because Zoners, like Freelancers, aren't even a single faction and TAZ do not equal Zoners, because Zoners aren't even a political power. This however would be resolved in one way: Pueblo Bonita have TAZ IFF and one station of choice around as well.

TAZ is Zoner officiall faction so they can FR5. And also i think all zoners can FR5 all players who violationf COF laws. http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=8584

And as someone sayed: being Zoner is lifestyle. This faction is for RP mostly, not trade or PVP. I'm enjoying being zoner really. I was in Omega 3 for long time and protecting NFZ, also was shooting people who violate it. I think alot of people seen Mothership.Alexandria (that moved in Taus now) and Zoner.Patroll.01(02) in there =)