Freelancer reputation...

[Blodo]

Well, leaving at least one tie to a reputation is needed so that people can't permanently screw up their rep with Freelancers. Another deal is that Zoners are not a faction, they are a label for a particular brand of Freelancers. Saying that you're hostile to all Zoners is like saying you are hostile to all Freelancers - neither makes a huge deal of sense. So that's why I would leave the rather small tie with Zoners.

If we are to remove all ties to all reps, then somebody would need to code in Freelancer missions on some base, but that would need a lot more work than simply leaving the Zoner reps tied.