Zoner ID line addition

[Laura C.]

When I joined the Core| back nine months ago, the houses were pretty good with the Core. Rheinland is using the Core as a puffer to all the threats from the Omicrons, as they already have trouble with RHA and Corsairs, and the Core has the Arcani units in house space to gather information and support their allies. If I remember correctly, the Core is also good with the LSF, okay-ish with Kusari and Bretonia, and Core|APM deliveres much into house space, be it Iridium or Battleship remains. Lore-wise, the Core has a certain powerful reputation in the houses, that is spread via Propaganda (Commodity) and thus Core gets pilots from all over Sirius.

The only ones remaining silent is the Core's allies, the houses, which is rather an issue.

I think you should check again the real diplomacy status with houses. Can´t speak for others, but Rheinland is definitely not Core´s ally. As far as I know (as a member of the Bundestag and Rheinland native player), there are quite good relations with BDM, there were some contacts with RM in the past and attempt to cooperate during first Delta crisis, but when it comes to The Bundesrepublik Rheinland as a whole and it´s government aka Bundestag, we can hardly call the relations even as friendly. Yes, Core shoot our enemies, but how can it be ally with somebody with whom they talked directly -once and shortly- and that talk was caused by Core´s attempt to claim part of Rheinland territory (I know that Core then recalled it and went to cooperate on the matter, but still not a good conversation and relations starter)?

Don´t get me wrong, I am not saying that The Core wasn´t on the good way when it comes to relations with Rheinland, but it froze completely after Lyth´s ban. So from my point of view, current situation is that Core has some good and well-connected friends in Rheinland, but Rheinland is still far from being Core´s friend, not to mention ally. After all, some other well-connected figures like ALG are openly supporting Zoner side and during the first Delta crisis, Rheinland government did not support The Core and declared neutrality.

And on the point of remaining silent - what you actually expect from houses to do? Public declaration like "The Core are good people and the Rheinland government support their fight against evil entities and their effort in making Omicron Delta good place"? First, that would be quite a risk even if the relations would be good, because situation in Omicrons is a mess and nobody in Rheinland (or any house) actually knows in detail what happened down there. And second, clever well informed people in governments have some idea what The Core is and that they can do literally anything (just like BDM or any other intelligence agency for example) to reach their goals, including but not limited to killing civilians. Thus supporting them publicly may backfire heavily and may turn into diplomatic as well as PR suicide if it will turn out in public media that Core were the mad aggressors (like last time when they really were). No government wants to be associated publicly with that.

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.