Harvester vs. Zoner war & Zoner House

[Malaclypse 666]

I will be honest, and I expect to receive flak about it.

I find the idea of Harvesters as hard-coded enemies of the Zoners to be extremely distasteful.

I would appreciate an Admin review of this decision, either for the upcoming mod, or for subsequent mods.

The Zoners will accrue one "enemy" as it is, the SCRA. I think that is entirely sufficient.

A little background from my perspective.

Scornstar first approached me about Harvesters attacking the TAZ, and about this whole "Alpha Code" phenomenon. I thought at the time that it would be a smashing yarn, which it started out as, but rather rapidly degraded due to disappearances by various of the principles during the story, including myself.
I was also in agreement concerning the "siege" of Gran Canaria by the Harvesters, which turned out to be a rather nice event. The whole concept began to go rapidly downhill from there...

Now, the part that really began to grate on me was Scornstar's adamant stance on this "Alpha Code". The damn Zoners don't have it! They never did. Had Scornstar acknowledged that, the whole hostility thing would have disappeared, instead of becoming some sort of bloody jihad against ALL Zoners, not just the TAZ.

There has been much ado lately about "Canon RP". Well, canon "says" that Zoners have no enemies. Now all of a sudden, the developers seem to be kowtowing to a single faction, in complete opposition and disregard of "canon RP". How the Harvesters and Scornstar managed to finagle this is beyond me. I resent it.

So, blame me for some of the initial "history" between the Harvies and the Zoners; but in no way no how do I concur with this new arrangement. In fact, I strenuously object. If it indeed comes to pass that all Zoners must suffer for a single RP story and attempt, then I apologize for my unwitting participation, and failure to stand up and be counted when this was first proposed and approved. (Of course, I wasn't asked for any input... Scornstar seems to have all the "suck" upstairs.)

If this comes to pass, I will be directing the TAZ to deal with the Harvesters in one way and one way only:

/IGNORE!

If that is sanctionable, then so be it.

Mal

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