the Zoners

[Rudo]

The question about manipulation would be what the Zoners are aiming for in the bigger picture. They've established themselves as the dominant 'authority' (for lack of a better term) out in the border and edge worlds. They run stations accessible to all and profit from people using them.

What more do they want? Where do they go from here?

I can't think of anything myself. I'm heading up a very similar faction and I'm hitting these same walls, except the fact that we're expanding into the houses as well makes it easier to come up with short-term goals.

I think the future of the NPC faction lies in the continuing saga of each individual freeport. Stuff like the Anti-BMM sentiment of Freeport 1, or the Zoner-Corsair romance story at Freeport 5. While the Zoners are more or less a confederacy, each freeport is its own territory and generally autonomous. Every station's story is unique.

That doesn't help much, but hopefully that may break it down into more manageable chunks for you.

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