the Zoners

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Robotic destroyer. Lawl.

Zoner technology isn't advanced enough to pull off such a feat, Richard. Perhaps they can build certain ships out of what little they can scrape together, but i hardly belive it to be possible for them to buy the army of androids and \ or robotics needed to fully automate their ships.

Yes, certain ships is what I meant. Automating an entire fleet would be very rare. (Not because of cost, since Zoners are exceptionally wealthy, but humans trusting robots.)

The question the becomes, whether Zoners can automate enough ships and fill the other ships with a human crew. I think they can.

Not to mention with what Kuraine said, it works out.

I agree with Dreygon that it is sad to see such factions become more militarised, but after the nomad threat, Das Wilde coming to be, the Harvesters, the Zoners have many threats. Their neutrality which got them through the early years is non-existent with these factions. Not to mention they have the influence and the money to build many things, so they could easily build a war fleet.

Perhaps they are just a bunch of groups coming together. But at least one bunch of groups would have a military mindset and build up defences. They may also realise that protecting other Zoner groups is in their interests since other groups may bring in a collective wealth which can be invested in further defences and other things which advance Zoner influence. (This paragraph refers to mini-groups which make up the collective Zoner faction.)

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.