Friends shooting Friends

[Zelot]

Zelot, a Very interesting proposal for Canaria, another docking facility for the Corsair "enclave".

And I fully understand your position regarding "history", if not your seeming neophobia concerning the future.

I don't think we're asking to rewrite history. We're exploring the possibilites by reviewing the current status quo, and asking the right to determine the future to a degree.

As to your being offended, what are we demanding be wiped out, Zelot? A piece of paper. A contract that if you want to talk "realities" probably hasn't been needed for quite some time.

I will also choose to be offended by the old litany (again, fueled by history and not by the future) that if one little apple on the Corsair car is disturbed, it means Freeports in flames. You don't need our food anymore, eh? Progress. That's good! Yay! But Zoners are now strong enough, rich enough, and powerful enough to not require your "protective" services in one system? Bad! Heresy! Boo!

I sense that you wish to move forward in the sense that Corsairs are no longer dependent on Zoners for food.. to move past the "vanilla" paradigm and its restrictions.

Why is it so difficult to allow us the same courtesy and priviledge?

Move on down the road old friend, except that this "protection" was not some contract, it was an exchange of maps and jumphole coordinates. Are you going to take back the maps? Somehow make us forget the Jumpholes? You wanted us to keep the Bretonians busy, you gave us the tools to do it... you taught us to fish, pretty hard to unteach it. As someone said earlier, once Corsairs are in a place, terribly hard to get them out. Mal, I have no problem with Zoners developing, my advice on dealing with the Corsairs during that process is that Zoner neutrality will not get you far in dealing with the Corsairs, you need to bring something to the table, and if you are going to be trying to kick the sairs out of 49, that something will have to be mighty shiney.


As to the Corsairs and food, we now have 4 Biodomes and have extensively rp'ed deals with the Farmers Alliance for sending food to Crete, and in .86, with Nagano, the distance will be much shorter to get it from field to the Corsairs tables. Mal, the Corsairs are past vanilla, and it's restrictions, we can get food, maybe not everyone in Corsairville has enough to eat, but the time of massive starvation is a thing of the past.

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