I wouldnt really claim Zoners as a friend when they were threatened by the Core not long ago during one of many FP11 conflicts. The Cores primary industry is export of Iridium, while it has to import almost every other resource required to construct warships. Those imports must pass by unlawful territory and frequest attacks and hijacking by those unlawful forces. The Core relies on house support as thats their only route to obtain otherwise out of reach construction goods. Order had already long been used to having their economy rely on raiding and making back-door deals with those willing to work with them. The Orders allies extend into the houses with a wide array of allied cargo raiding and opportunity for secret deals to be made with those that will work with them. The Core arguable has alot more to lose in a concentrated attack thsn the Order. Order has decentralized, spread out, and doesnt have a massive economical focus on a front-line territory, whereas Cores major economical hold is a front-line battleground between enemies of their own making and the Nomads.
