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**Petitioner** · 07-07-2025, 10:16 PM,

As you've decided to post your appeal publicly, the team's response will be public as well.

There are a number of issues here. First of all, the server logs (where we've verified both chatlogs as well as damage logs) prove that the Corsairs were the ones to engage first as one would with a typical hostile ship. No demands were made prior to the engagement starting. The classification of the Bulwark as a trade ship might be a debatable one, but with the overwhelming mixed fleet you applied here, you cannot reasonably claim that the Phoenix Bulwarks were anything other than hapless victims.

Furthermore, it is in fact legitimate to engage someone for refusing to halt when repeatedly ordered to do so, even though such an order is not a "demand" in and of itself as per the rules. However, the Corsair group explicitly shot them for running without ever actually issuing a demand to halt. It's true that one of the DTR ships did eventually issue a proper demand in this encounter, but critically, that demand was issued after the Corsair group had already attacked.

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Finally, the messages to the GMG are completely fine and not at all ooRP. Zoners and the GMG have always gotten along, and the GMG and Phoenix share a common hated enemy in the Corsairs. The GMG also act as a de-facto law enforcing body within the Sigmas. With all of that in mind, asking the GMG for help against Corsairs (whether you were pirating them or simply murdering them, it doesn't matter) while within GMG space is completely reasonable, and thus is entirely immaterial to this sanction.

I hope this clarifies matters for you. The sanction stands.

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